NOW NASA's in trouble!

From: Pope Phil <pope_phil_minty@sunbgeniuz-yaho.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Jul 5, 2005 6:00 PM

just when they were hailing the comet impact as a success, it looks like it MIGHT just cost them BIG...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4649987.stm

yeah! right! good luck with that one. perhaps if you got Jacko's and OJ's lawyers on the case

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: König Prüße, GfbAEV <saurkraut@weinerschnitzle.com>

The good part is that they now know the effect of 6,000 lbs of TNT
on a comet that size, and so may be able to guess how much bang
would be needed to move one, or crack it.

I wonder what the long-term effects of the polar wobble induced
by the tsunami earthquake will be?

I'm pretty sure that all of the extra tornados and hurricanes
are partly caused by a little global warming, but climate shifts
happen. Everyone talks about the weather but no one does
anything about it.

So, what is the orbit time of the Tempel-1 comet? The scary thing
is that there are many comets and asteroids flying around out there
that aren't monitored and just show-up without notice. Sure, one of
them has Earth's name on it!

Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows!

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>

One big issue with trying to defend the Earth against comets and
asteroids is that they're often not solid objects. Instead, they're just
rubble piles held together by their very weak gravity. You try to push
such an object to change its orbit, and all that happens is that the bit
you push against moves, and the rest of it just carries on its merry way.

Sylvia.

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: König Prüße, GfbAEV <saurkraut@weinerschnitzle.com>

I'm none too practical. I like the Space Elevator,
and I think people should think toward leaving the
Earth eventually because it won't last forever.

But even an asteroid swarm could be deflected somewhat.

It's just a matter of time and computational power before
everything can be mapped by calculating the perturbation
of orbits, and finding the culprit that is behind that.

Yes, just exactly why are the orbits perturbed, eh?

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>

Mainly Jupiter.

We should zap the bugger.

Sylvia.

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: König Prüße, GfbAEV <saurkraut@weinerschnitzle.com>

The science guys are drilling near here to find a meteorite-a big one!
http://www.usgs.gov/features/bolide.html
http://meteor.pwnet.org/impact_event/impact_crater.htm
http://www.spacer.com/news/asteroid-00n.html

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: sputnik <sputnik@cnn.com>

So they SAY.

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>

They tried that before. Hit it with a comet. Damage to comet - 100%.
Damage to Jupiter - none.

These guys have gotta learn to think out of the box.

Sylvia.

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Subject: Re: NOW NASA's in trouble!
From: Reverend DJ Epoch <yougottabekidding@noway.com>

They tried that... and blasted it with a bunch of comet fragments. Didn't
work, still there. Dammit. <Blocks my view of Neptune>

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