Posted on 07/03/2005 11:10:41 PM PDT by msjhall
PASADENA, Calif. — A NASA space probe was bearing down on its comet target Sunday in a suicide mission scientists hoped would provide new insight into the origins of the solar system.
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Where is it at?
I searched all over cable TV to find any news, any reports of this event.....
Nothin honey......
so sad
Nothing on MSTV...........
I am a bad grandma.....
I kept my 11 year old grandson up to 2am to see a once in a life time event...
We watched it on the internet.... on my computer...because it is the only access I had...
Thank you !!!
Actually Foxs News broke in with a news alert and reported the impact and showed the spectacular image of the impacter hitting the comet. On the NASA Channel the head of the mission was almost giddy at the picture. One comment was that the amount of debris coming away from the comet was much more than anticipated.
He also mentioned that because of the small size of the comet it has limited gravity. So, the impact, explosion, debris movement is all happening in slow motion.
Quite a successful night for NASA
A totally irrellevent and useless experiment conducted at the public expense.
I was talking to my daughter in California and she told me that Fox had cut in with a small mention of the event.. but it must have been local to that area... nothing here...no mention of anything in the midwest...I may have missed it..I was searching channels like a mad woman... ;-(
We've had a live thread going all day:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1435717/posts
What channel is this on?
Searching for "live thread" would have brought it right up.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=live%20thread
Please.
We need to deal with the Gamelons before any Comet Empire ships show up.
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BAH!
I got MY money's worth.
Did you?
Untrue, and uninformed.
This experiment is yet another confirmation in another technical realm that we can intercept high-speed objects (the comet is traveling several times faster than the fastest manmade ICBM). So for missile-defense, it has value.
Likewise, learning precisely how far we can tweak the orbits of large objects is valuable, as is learning more about the composition of comets, especially should we need to alter or destroy one some day (e.g. one on an Earth impact trajectory).
You have to start somewhere, after all.
Not only is this going to shed light on the makeup of comets and perhaps the early solar system, this experiment proved once and for all the ability of the United States protect the planet from spaceborne threats.
You misspelled irrelevant.
The scientific knowledge that will be gained from this was worth every penny spent.
Yeah.. eat you heart out "camel jockies" and kimmy.
Your lack of imagination is only exceeded by your ignorance.
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