Good morning. I was thinking about a topic, actually ... not comets, though. Psychedelic baby-spews?
Good morning!
I forgot the chocolate chip cookies!! It would seem I’m trying to ignore the month of May because of certain birthdays, but it will go away in while.
No wind this morning!!! Sunshine! Blue skies! And a toasty 57 degrees. *br-r-r-r-r!*
“Comet inbound”
The nasty scraggly looking nucleus wasn’t much to look at the way comets go.
A mass of dirt, volitiles, and various space garbage, it was a spacegoing hobos shopping cart.
“Calculations complete?”
“Affirmative, ninety-nine point nine repeating probability of impact with Earth.”
“Target points scanned and locked?”
“Lock on points two through eight. Point one is obscured by random gas jet activity.”
“Use active scanning on point one.”
“Point one is the site of the active jet.”
“Use alternate points.”
Systems powered up as the device presently being brought to bear on the comet began the process of being brought ‘in battery’ for use.
“Are the eggheads back in Houston sure this will work? I mean, really.. we have the teleFRAG, we can obliterate the comet or alter the orbit that way.”
“They SAY they are sure, the computer backs them up.. so we’re going to shine the pretty lights on the comet and hope it doesn’t act different from their calcs.”
“It’s better to just push it rather than force cometary jets to form because the jets aren’t themselves a contollable variable. We CAN control how much impulse we add or remove from the comet speed wise.”
“I know what you’re saying, we’re likely to obliterate something o earth with this thing. I’m hoping for a nice solid hit on Was-” a tone alert interupted him.
“That’s our signal.”
“Powering up particle beam cannons.”
Four heavy beam cannons locked onto the main target locations as several secondary battery emplacements locked onto the remaining target points.
The surface of the comet melted, boiled, and explosively vented as all hell broke loose and the comet began moving in unpredictable ways.
Just as the crew had predicted.