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To: searchandrecovery; hchutch
I don't want to cause a panic here or anything, but what if the comet extinguishes (or in layman's terms, "puts out") the sun?

We'll launch a Titan IV out of Vandenberg with a really big match...

40 posted on 04/16/2004 2:07:51 PM PDT by Poohbah (Darkdrake Lives!)
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To: Poohbah
Yup. Or a giant lighter...
45 posted on 04/16/2004 2:24:59 PM PDT by hchutch (Tommy Thompson's ephedra ban STINKS.)
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To: Poohbah
We'll launch a Titan IV out of Vandenberg with a really big match...

Well, that sounds good in theory, but from years of watching science-fiction I know that space is a vacuum. Might have to use electricity, like the arc from touching the jumper cables on a car battery together.

47 posted on 04/16/2004 2:27:37 PM PDT by searchandrecovery (Ward Cleaver - "A thing is either right or it's wrong".)
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