did you guys see that comet getting blowed up?

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"Now that we have succeeded at hitting a rock the size of Manhattan with a computer-guided probe, maybe we'll be left alone long enough to return to the research that really matters to us: pointing our space telescopes at Lindsay Lohan's tittays."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Well if the probe is so insignificant in relation to the comet's size, then NASA should quit trying to make news by bragging about how hard it hit!

No, I think one of the purposes of this mission was to slam into the comet and expel plumes of comet-material and analyze those emissions (by observing the impact with a telescope).

Still, the explosion is large enough to tell us something about the composition of the comet, but not nearly large enough to affect its orbit.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

So, like, we're just pulling our punches to see what we're up against.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes. Bruce Willis will be along any minute to help analyze the data and decide on the next course of action.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link

That comet could have been populated by ice people!

― andy --, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

they broadcast the impact live at Chabot Science Center's MegaDome, we tried to go but they sold out the room

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/07/04/MNGDKDISKQ1.DTL&o=1

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

a chunk will fall off and land either side of my house meaning i am in a detached property! yeah!

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

WAR ON DUST PARTICLES

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

It's baaaaaackkk....

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/01/comet-last-seen-in-stone-age-to-make-closest-approach-to-earth

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 1 October 2024 17:01 (three months ago) link

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