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Russian Astrologist Plans To Crash Nasa’s Independ
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post Apr 20 2005, 05:50 PM
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http://mosnews.com/feature/2005/04/19/deepimpact.shtml
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post Apr 20 2005, 08:41 PM
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Some great science in there. I quote:
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but a Deep Impact mission is underway, with a NASA spacecraft loaded with explosives scheduled to collide with the Tempel-1 comet on July 4 and blast it to smithereens...

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...comprised of a “fly-by” spacecraft and a smaller “impactor” carrying some 350 kilograms of a copper-based explosive ...

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Indeed, the consequences of destroying a comet may include anything from an asteroid shower to disruption to radio waves.


That reporter really did his/her research... as was said above, the thing doesn't carry any explosives. It's just copper.


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- Sunspot   Russian Astrologist Plans To Crash Nasa’s Independ   Apr 20 2005, 05:50 PM
- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Apr 20 2005, 12:50 PM)Surely...   Apr 20 2005, 06:57 PM
|- - MaDeR   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 20 2005, 07:57 PM)I...   Jun 25 2005, 09:14 PM
|- - DDAVIS   'There were scores of similar attempts within ...   Jun 25 2005, 11:43 PM
- - djellison   That is the worst reporting I have ever seen - it ...   Apr 20 2005, 07:27 PM
- - Pando   QUOTE Bai is demanding that NASA call off its ...   Apr 20 2005, 07:58 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (Pando @ Apr 20 2005, 02:58 PM)QUOTE Ba...   Apr 20 2005, 08:31 PM
- - MiniTES   Some great science in there. I quote: QUOTE but a ...   Apr 20 2005, 08:41 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   Let me recall that the crackpots you speak about, ...   Jun 26 2005, 06:52 AM
- - deglr6328   "Indeed, the consequences of destroying a com...   Jun 30 2005, 09:21 PM
- - Jeff7   I think that doesn't sum up adequately my th...   Jul 1 2005, 02:48 PM
- - Richard Trigaux   This story is not funny at all: remember that ther...   Jul 2 2005, 05:30 AM

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