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NASA to send celestial hammer to break open comet
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| 2004-12-20
| I. A. Harry
Posted on 12/23/2004 9:20:12 AM PST by Diamond
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To: snopercod
Excellent book. I love everything Niven has written.
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posted on
12/23/2004 11:14:29 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
To: TalBlack
...i'd be amazed if they didn't try to calculate the effect of their "celestial hammer". Did you mean that such a calculation is beyond mans ability?Well, it depends upon what you mean by 'calculate'. I'm thinking it may be about like a kid calculating what the effect of the matches he's playing with is.
Cordially,
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posted on
12/23/2004 11:14:41 AM PST
by
Diamond
To: Diamond
I sure hope there are no spotted deep space owls on that comet or there will be hell to pay.
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posted on
12/23/2004 11:20:18 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
To: Boiling point
...that's only about the weight of a big block car engine, and much less mass than say, an air liner crash, I don't think it will be very significant.The opinions here vary, but if your're right and it's not significant then I think the next time they will just use a bigger bomb. In other words I think they wouldn't do it if it didn't have any effect.
Cordially,
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posted on
12/23/2004 12:43:37 PM PST
by
Diamond
To: Cboldt
The hammer will be vaporized, perhaps ionized immediately. The flash spectrum should show the atomic constitution of the hammer and some of the comet itself. We may discover commercial quantities of water and other minerals.
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posted on
12/23/2004 12:48:46 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I agree. The "survival" aspects of Lucifer's Hammer were spot-on and very thought-provoking.
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posted on
12/23/2004 1:05:20 PM PST
by
snopercod
(Bigger government means clinton won. Less freedom means Osama won. Get it?)
To: Aeronaut
$330,000,000 hammer? Great! NASA beat out the Defense Dept. in the cost of hammers....astronomically.
Whatever happened to the concepts of miniaturization and probes? When the spectrum comes back showing "dirty ice", iron ore and H2O, will it be reported?
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posted on
12/23/2004 6:11:45 PM PST
by
BIGLOOK
(I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
To: newgeezer
NASA just wants to show us what we shouldn't do with money.
Just imagine a bank with 300 dollars of cash inside. NASA is going to send that bank into space and blow it up. It will appear as a small spark in the sky.
When America has 7.4 trillion dollars of debt, we should be using cheaper fireworks. Don't you think!?
If you are against wasting of money, then join CAGW (Citizens Against Government Waste): www.cagw.org.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
06/16/2005 11:50:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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