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billgerat
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Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'

In about 70 minutes Deep Impact will happen with comet Tempel 1. Be prepared for the apocalypse to come.

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http://www.space.com/missionlaunche..._countdown.html

Watch live, so they say.

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This is so exciting. I want to set off fireworks and shit this is so exciting.

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Look southwest at the constellation of Virgo. It may brighten to a magnitude of 6, which is about as bright as a faint star as seen by the naked eye. Your best bet is to use a telescope or powerful binoculars to see it. No guarantees that it will be bright enough, though.

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Deep Impact hits Comet Tempel 1 at 1:52 a.m. EDT.

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Also, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ = live streaming video.. 11 minutes from impact.

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awesome impact

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Confirmation of impact 1 minute ago via NASA.

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awesome.

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Windows Media Player & RealPlayer sucks rocks.

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live streaming video and audio with no buffering is perfectly nice for those of us without quality telescopes

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Welll............?

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Wow.
I had to jack off.
I'm still excited.
wow..

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So it's material is a rock like substance known all over the world,huh.

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All that for nothing

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I mean we have meteors in museums,man.
Why would anyone think that a comet is made of something magical?
Fucking NASA,man.
Triumph the comic dog should have been at that NASA base.
What a bunch of nerds.

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Ah yes, the days of youth when you actually thought shooting stars were stars. I can see why it's attractive to stay in that frame of mind.

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Comets and most meteors are different, LF. Comets come from the outskirts of the solar system, wheras most meteors come from the asteroid belt.

EDIT: In fact, they are mostly just space dust and other small crap. Meteorites are what are in museums, and they are a bit bigger, and asteroids are one of the things we are worried about in terms of an impact with Earth.

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Yea! And..and NASA fucked it all up,man!

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quote:
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Yeah, I was gonna post something like that too.

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quote:
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Yeah, I was gonna post something like that too.

Yeah, right. You might as well 'fess up, Cheesemeister. You wuz gonna post sumpin' about how comets is made o' cheese.

I know ya like th'back o' my hand.

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Mmm.. Cheesy comets.

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quote:
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Comets and most meteors are different, LF..... and asteroids are one of the things we are worried about in terms of an impact with Earth.

Then that probe thing should have gathered a sample to be retrived by some cosmonaut up there wherever.Then brought back to earth.THEN it would rool. Cause pictures are just..pictures.

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