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This strikes me as tinfoil hat nonsense...especially when considering that the impacts of the Shoemaker-Levy comet fragments easily delivered over 20 times the wallop of the Galileo collision and even that didn't start a thermonuclear chain reaction.

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This strikes me as tinfoil hat nonsense...especially when considering that the impacts of the Shoemaker-Levy comet fragments easily delivered over 20 times the wallop of the Galileo collision and even that didn't start a thermonuclear chain reaction.

Well, a comet isn't made of potentially fissionable material...but I digress. Hoagland is a kook-and-a-half, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. It at least bears a little additional fact-checking.

I, for one, would like to know if the "dark spot" in question was truly being ignored...or was it just another photographic artifact that Hoagland has chosen to hype....guess I better do a little digging.