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budster101 · Jul 3, 2005, 06:01 PM

Nasa going to collide with a comet moving at 23,000 miles per hour. 300million for this...

Once again, DEEP IMPACT Spacecraft to collde with comet, and they hope to put a hole in it, then look inside...and then take pictures.

WTF? We're all going to die. They know an asteroid is coming at us and have all pooped their pants...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...p-impact_x.htm

hyperb0le · Jul 3, 2005, 07:19 PM

Originally Posted by budster101

WTF? We're all going to die. They know an asteroid is coming at us and have all pooped their pants...

1. A comet is not an asteroid.
2. No. Just... no...

budster101 · Jul 3, 2005, 07:20 PM

I should add. Nasa previously did a flyby of an Asteroid,and messed up bigtime.

This comet attack is only a precursor to an asteroid attack to possibly save the earth. Supposedly an Asteroid is going to do a flyby of earth and come pretty close. They really don't know.. why the sudden testing?

analogika · Jul 3, 2005, 07:33 PM

You're not really much into science, are you?

I mean, beyond what the big Hollywood documentaries like Armageddon, Deep Impact, and Jurassic Park teach you?

budster101 · Jul 3, 2005, 07:40 PM

Uhm. Nasa named the thing DEEP IMPACT...

btw: You dont' think they'll clone dinasaurs someday?
btw: You don't think an asteroid could hit earth or at least come so dangerously close that NASA would scramble to do a few things? Like they are doing?

Why are you such a dick?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343475/posts

analogika · Jul 3, 2005, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by budster101

Uhm. Nasa named the thing DEEP IMPACT...

NASA have a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

Originally Posted by budster101

btw: You dont' think they'll clone dinasaurs someday?

no.

Originally Posted by budster101

btw: You don't think an asteroid could hit earth or at least come so dangerously close that NASA would scramble to do a few things? Like they are doing?

Possibly. Eventually.

But not like they are doing.

The focus of this mission is an entirely different one.

Originally Posted by budster101

Why are you such a dick?

Because I find people who flaunt their ignorance annoying.

hyperb0le · Jul 3, 2005, 07:57 PM

Also, I'd like to point out that NASA isn't "scrambling" to do this mission. A space mission doesn't just happen. There are many months/years of planning that go into something like this. Some guy doesn't just say "We need a craft to intercept that comet. JOHNSON! Get a craft ready to go by 11!"

zizban · Jul 3, 2005, 08:02 PM

Harly a comet buster. The coment is 9 miles long. The impactor is the size of a washer. They are going to smack the coment to create a stadium sized crater so we can see what's inside. 300 million, by space mission standards, is acctually quite cheap. The Cassini craft, by contrast, cost 1.3 billion dollars. Don't panic, nothing but pretty pictures to come.

xi_hyperon · Jul 3, 2005, 10:40 PM

Anyone else watching the webcast from NASA?

budster101 · Jul 3, 2005, 10:50 PM

What a waste of money then.

Ghoser777 · Jul 3, 2005, 10:56 PM

So now you're disappointed that we're not going to die?

budster101 · Jul 3, 2005, 10:59 PM

A little.

hyperb0le · Jul 3, 2005, 11:22 PM

It's certainly not a waste of time. I don't understand why so many people dismiss the space program's activities, disregarding the scientific knowledge it provides us with, just because it hasn't given us green aliens or big (read: planet-sized") explosions.

Randman · Jul 3, 2005, 11:33 PM

People who don't understand science (read the original post for more on that) automatically think it's a waste of time.

OT: As far as cloning dinosaurs, the book Jurassic Park addresses this in the fact that the climate is far different than during the age of dinosaurs. So, any type of cloning would have to come from a hybrid, same with the wooly mammoth. It would be a mammaphent or elephoth.

budster101 · Jul 3, 2005, 11:35 PM

Hey, let's spend 300 million to blow a hole in a comet...then video tape it.

Here are a few NASA hopefuls that will maybe someday save us from the killer asteroid in space...
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/blowstuffup.html

Someone has too much time on their hands.. (You mean this isn't possible?)

http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/...DeathStar.html

zerostar · Jul 3, 2005, 11:38 PM

I am watching LIVE on NASA TV right now, channel 376 for you other DirecTV users

About an hour to go.

budster101 · Jul 4, 2005, 12:38 AM

18 minutes.

budster101 · Jul 4, 2005, 12:58 AM

They hit the comet. The world is now safe. Goodnight.

Now the Aliens that have been frozen dormant in that comet will awaken and attack us... great.

Luca Rescigno · Jul 4, 2005, 01:06 AM

analogika · Jul 4, 2005, 04:50 AM

Originally Posted by budster101

What a waste of money then.

You're not really much into science, are you?

wdlove · Jul 4, 2005, 10:13 AM

Kudos to NASA for a successful mission. Hope that it will provide a lot of important data.

meelk · Jul 4, 2005, 10:30 AM

Maybe we can launch the next one to hit budster.

von Wrangell · Jul 4, 2005, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

You're not really much into science, are you?

Give him a break.

Maybe he's just worried that this mission could show us were the material for the first life on earth came from

BlueSky · Jul 4, 2005, 11:24 AM

What Could Possibly Go Wrong. ™

GFitzy · Jul 5, 2005, 09:58 AM

uh maybe this!?

NASA Sued

starman · Jul 5, 2005, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by GFitzy

uh maybe this!?

NASA Sued

Wait for it....

Wait for it...

jcadam · Jul 5, 2005, 10:07 AM

Next time, instead of a solid hunk of metal, let's hurl a multi-megaton nuke into a comet. I want to see what happens.

Millennium · Jul 5, 2005, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by budster101

btw: You dont' think they'll clone dinasaurs someday?

I don't think they will, if only for lack of complete DNA samples. Preservation of DNA in amber is good, but not perfect, as even Jurassic Park admitted. The dinosaurs from that book were not true clones, as the gaps in the DNA record were filled with corresponding genes from amphibians.

And then, of course, there's the issue of actually bringing animals back from extinction, which would require hundreds of complete samples. To bring them back from only one sample, or one of each gender, would create an extremely shallow gene pool; effectively everything past the first generation would be inbred. Theoretically this could be remedied by engineering differences into different sets of genes and starting a sample that way, but this would require many complete samples anyway, to determine viable differences that could be engineered.

faragbre967 · Jul 5, 2005, 11:06 AM

Missed it, any clips from the event?

Millennium · Jul 5, 2005, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by faragbre967

Missed it, any clips from the event?

My wife and I stayed up to watch the Webcast as it occurred. There wasn't a live video feed from the spacecraft, though; all you could see was the people in the control room and still images which they'd occasionally project onto the screen. Cool if you wanted to see the celebrations and have a sense of "being there", but probably not what a lot of people were hoping for. The first images to come back were low-bandwidth grainy previews, as could be expected, so we haven't seen any of the big color images which will no doubt be released over the next few days.

faragbre967 · Jul 5, 2005, 11:29 AM

Oh I thought people were watching live video, CNN Desert Storm style. Kinda disappointing but oh well. Can't wait for the pics though.

Kevin · Jul 5, 2005, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by GFitzy

uh maybe this!?

NASA Sued

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAH

GFitzy · Jul 5, 2005, 11:45 AM

lots of pix and some movies here:

DeepImpact

jcadam · Jul 5, 2005, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by faragbre967

Oh I thought people were watching live video, CNN Desert Storm style. Kinda disappointing but oh well. Can't wait for the pics though.

Sorry man, the bandwidth needed to blast full motion video just ain't available for deep space probes yet.

Not to mention the fact that it couldn't be live video. It would be delayed by a few seconds to a few minutes due to the speed of the signal and the distances involved (example: The earth is eight light-minutes from the sun). Hmm, that delay must have been a bit annoying for the guys controlling the mars rovers (No too far, reverse, stop, no not off the cliff!!!).

Oh, that's why the rovers needed AI.