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The comet collision is coming soon..
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:22 am
by tnf
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:26 am
by Don Carlos
I think its all lies
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:27 am
by Dave
I wonder what the success rate for recent missions is... It seems like quite a few of them have ended in loss of contact from the vehicle.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:29 am
by mjrpes
With a cost of $330 million, Deep Impact is the eighth mission in NASA's Discovery Program, which supports low-budget science missions.
I guess low-budget is a relative term
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:30 am
by Dave
mjrpes wrote:
With a cost of $330 million, Deep Impact is the eighth mission in NASA's Discovery Program, which supports low-budget science missions.
I guess low-budget is a relative term
Especially when this experiment is all about blowin' stuff up
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:34 am
by mjrpes
Jerry Bruckheimer would be proud.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:43 am
by Transient
:lol: @ mr. jeeps
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:43 am
by mjrpes
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:44 am
by Dave
/.ed -- or on its way to /.ed
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:46 am
by mjrpes
My cursor is well positioned over the refresh button. I'm ready for you, comet.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:39 am
by mjrpes
yeah, if anyone has some good image link mirrors... please post.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:49 am
by mjrpes
riddla wrote:want me to grab some screens off my tv card with fraps and post?
the high resolution stuff is what i'm interested in... i'm sure a million sites will have the lower res stuff soon
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:29 am
by Massive Quasars
Check the CNN url posted in this thread. It has a link to a 10 minute video, quite impressive.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:46 am
by Massive Quasars
Re: The comet collision is coming soon..
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:50 am
by Guest
Is it something like Armagedon movie but nobody told us about or what?
Pete
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:01 am
by Denz
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:14 am
by saturn
The probe was 372 kilograms and hit the comet with 37,000 kilometers and hour. That has a lot of kinetic force :0
I was wondering if it wouldn't change the comet's trajectory, but then I read this quote:
"It was like mosquito hitting a 747. What we've found is that the mosquito didn't splat on the surface, it's actually gone through the windscreen."
