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whats going on with nasa and a asteroid?

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The comet probably weighs several million tons, and the impactor is around 300 pounds. Despite the fact that it's going to hit at 23,000 MPH, its in no danger of destroying the comet. It will be blasting a cloud of ice cubes off the comet, so we can determine what its consistancy is like, and what elements are present. It should make the comet much brighter in the sky if a lot of ice and particles are blasted off the surface.

This is hardly a rehearsal for destroying a comet inbound to Earth. Destroying a comet or pushing it off course would require Nukes- a lot of them!
 
Couldn't sleep so thought I might as well stay up 40 more minutes and see if the world ends. I will let you know if it looks bad.
 
Our brave little spacecraft is in a very hostile little enviroment here." - Gay NASA Announcer.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Thats one big dead bug!
 
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Seeing a room full of older men and young interns screaming and howling is rathewr frightening.


-- Now just wait, some alien will come to us, and demand reperations for destroying a piece of space or something. Haha.

Time fer bedddd.\


talk about a good fourth of july firework!

take that evil doers.

AMERICA, F* YEAH!
 
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Saw a science buff on the box yesterday explaining that the effect of the probe hitting the asteroid would be akin to a small bird impacting the leading edge of a widebody wing; might dent it a tad but won't bring it out of course

The purpose of this experiment is to eject material from the core of the asteroid, which the mother space craft can then analyze. The theory is that the nucleous of the asteriod should contain material from back when the universe was formed som 14 billion odd years ago. In other words, a study into how the universe was formed.

That's the official version anyway. There is a growing feeling in France that GWB got nucleous and nuclear mixed up, coupled with a theory that the asteroid is indeed under the control of Al-Qaeda. It may also contain vast quantities of oil ;)
 

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