How can they do PHYSICS when they have to spend all their time teaching Muslim exchange students how to get rockets off the ground and into space? < /sarc>
Because physics is the basic job, the underlying thing that they do.
Policticws won’t change that.
They’re still using the Hubble space telescope, still using the Chandra x-ray observatory, etc.
Politics does not magically change physics.
Politics does make it harder to do your job, but it doesn’t magically make comets do things contrary to physics.
It doesn’t magically change orbits, or make cometary debris magically bigger than the parent body.
Politics is not magic, and neither are comets.
No matter how many times someone rolls the d20 die and shouts “magic missile”, ISON will not kill us.
And when January ends and we aren’t dead, will you admit that BPEarthwatch was wrong?
Will you have it in you to admit that?
Bluesmover didn’t.
He was given a wager, and chickened out.
http://cometography.com/lcomets/1882r1.html <-—another comet that broke up. Didn’t magically kill us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Ikeya%E2%80%93Seki <-—Ikeya-Seki broke up into pieces, none of which magically changed course to kill us.
Sungrazing comets tend to breakup or burn up.
The Kreutz sungrazers are a family of comets that have their existence traced back to a comet in 1106.
It broke up, we still live.
Amazing, that.