Friday, July 01, 2005

CELESTIAL FIREWORKS: NASA prepares to crash craft into comet for sake of science

"In a high-speed maneuver 83 million miles from Earth, scientists will aim a two-stage spacecraft at a distant comet late Sunday night, hoping to blast a deep crater into its icy nucleus and spew out its insides to reveal what these messengers from the early solar system can tell us of their origin."
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2 comments:

Kyle said...

This mission reads to me like the beginning of a SciFi novel...

"No one in 2005 could have foreseen the effects of driving a 4th of July wedge into a comet...23 years later..."

Particularly when I read that "there was no chance that the mission could endanger the earth".

Oh yeah...just what I needed...another "there's no chance" promise. Thanks, fellas...

Anyone remember Gilligan's infamous cry, "From here on out, it looks like smooooooth sailing".

Would someone please whack the "there's no chance" guy on the head with their captain's hat?

Kyle
UFOreflections.blogspot.com

5:21 PM
razorsmile said...

Now this is the kind of thing I like to see. A pox on your cinema-driven superstitions!




:D

5:42 PM

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