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Space Disaster! Deep Impact probe hits comet

Er... um... This was a successful mission (or maybe you're being sarcastic). I think we can all breath a sigh of relief that NASA finally had a success.
 
Actually, according to this article, http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article1074132.ece (unfortunately only in Norwegian,) a Russion astrologer is suing Nasa for "upsetting the cosmic balance" and making her work inaccurate.

(I must admit, the story does seem a little too good to be true and I suspect a newspaper canard.)
 
Moon-Spinner said:
Er... um... This was a successful mission (or maybe you're being sarcastic). I think we can all breath a sigh of relief that NASA finally had a success.
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:jaw:

At a cost of $330 million...
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Think of how many children could be fed with that money. Won't someone please think of the children? :(
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
:jaw:



Think of how many children could be fed with that money. Won't someone please think of the children? :(
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These babies only go for about $200 million each..

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Since it's too late to spend the money on food, mayby they could be used for low cost housing..
 
Diogenes said:
These babies only go for about $200 million each..

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Since it's too late to spend the money on food, mabey they could be used for low cost housing..
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Or de-housing.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
Think of how many children could be fed with that money. Won't someone please think of the children? :(
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The impactor was made mostly from copper plates and a big honkin' battery. It would taste terrible and the kids would hate it. Besides, it's 83 million miles away. Who goes that far for a bite to eat?
 
I can remember when I was a kid, my grandma complaining about the cost of the Apollo missions and how many starving kids could be fed with that money.
 
That poor, defenseless rock... how could they do that?


I bet that, before the week is over, Bush will claim that the rock was Bin Laden in disguise. :D
 
Not content to destroy our own environment, we are now destroying the environments of space rocks! What heartless Nazis.
 
See, you try to do something nice for somebody...

Every time we wanted to blow a stadium-sized hole in the earth just to see it go boom people would whine, whine, whine. So we try to do the right thing and move our fun an whole 83 million miles away, but nooooooo! :D
 
Chaos said:
That poor, defenseless rock... how could they do that?


I bet that, before the week is over, Bush will claim that the rock was Bin Laden in disguise. :D
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Or that the comet was a WMD.
 
All I can say is, "Wow!" Someone, please, tell me how to build a telescope big enough to see this stuff!

This is great! NASA is getting back on track. Considering the cost effectiveness of a lot of NASA's missions, this is great news!
 
Actually, the comet hit the probe. They forgot to program the probe to look both ways before crossing the comet's path.

Of course, like all comets, it didn't even bother to stop. I hope they catch that comet and sue the ice out of it.
 
In the end folks....who gives a rats arse what comets are made of? My bet is that one was made of rock.....They could have called me for that info and saved the money for something usefull, like the worlds first zero G porno or something else that would sell.....
 
As Eddie Izzard said: "They landed a man on the moon and found... grey rocks! Then they landed an unmanned probe on Mars and found... MORE rocks! RED ones this time! We've got the most boring solar system in the universe!!"
 
This morning's Arizona Republic has a timely article on a Scottsdale charity called "The Presidential Prayer Team", established to encourage people to pray for the President.

3 million people have signed up and have donated over $6 million. Unfortunately the charity has been in the red since it was formed, and is now in the hole $531,891.

But... oh yeah... we were discussing all those starving children that could be fed with Nasa's budget. I suppose. -sigh- but it probably just go into more prayer donations.

Scientific research is a good thing. Feeding hungry children is a good thing too.
 
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