Cosmic Crash Won’t Destroy Comet or Earth
By Marc • Jun 28th, 2005 • Category: In Other News...., the WeirdoGet the full story here.
WOW….This sounds like a major undertaking. It still sounds dangerous too, but it also sounds like they’ve covered everything….almost….
The comet and Impactor will collide at about 23,000 mph.
GOSH! That’s awfully fast!
Wouldn’t hitting something like that cause debris that could fall to Earth?
“We’re sending a bug onto the windshield of a train,” said Monte Henderson, Deputy Director of Programs in Civil Space Systems for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation here.
Oh…Whew…..I feel better!
“So a modest meteoroid stream might be created that would follow the parent comet but no visible meteors would result of course,” Yeomans said. “Perhaps an enhanced meteoroid stream following the comet might be discernable in pre- and post-impact infrared images. It would be unlikely, but not out of the question,” he explained.
OK…Well, I guess that makes sense, “laws of motion” and all.
But they seemed to have left out one thing. What’s going to happen to the Earth if the aliens come out of the comet and take Tom Cruise up to their astral sanctuary? They never do think of that one, do they?
Marc is a Catholic technology geek living in Tennessee. He blogs at Wild Tangents and is the host of the Catholic Vocations Podcast.
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I wish the aliens would come get him, he’s annoying the crap outta me. I still say that in 15
years, he’ll be married to Dakota Fanning (his 11 yr old co-star).