Deep Impact Mission

[ChuckDickerson]

Score another triumph for science courtesy of NASA and all that were involved with the Deep Impact Mission! The impactor has scored a direct hit and the early images are extraordinary! I have been watching NASA TV all night and I must say I am astounded. It is a great day for science and engineering! Now this is what I call the ultimate autonomous programming!

[JoeXIII'007]

Just fantastic. Amazing that NASA has hit a very small, fast moving target in space compared to other objects out there. Waiting for hi-res pics to be posted.

[Edit] *gasp* Absolutely beautiful image of the blowout was just shown on NASA TV. [/Edit]

[Barry Bonzack]

I heard them say that Hubble is watching this event as well. I can't wait until we get to see those images.

[JohnBoucher]

Awesome, Awesome job. The pictures on the NASA sight are great, but I wish we had NASA tv. I'll have to put NASA tv on my holiday wish list.

[Goobergunch]

If you don't get NASA-TV on your television, you can watch it via the web in either RealPlayer or Windows Media formats.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

[MrToast]

The sad thing about all of this is that there's this astrologer in Russia who's saying that the mission messed up her astrology business and caused her "moral sufferings". So she's suing NASA for $300M, the price of the mission.

I have some questions about this...
1. How did she not see this coming?
2. How did she conclude that the balance of nature in the universe is worth $300M?
3. Why isn't she using this to her advantage? eg, telling her clients: "You need to come back in for a new reading! NASA's mission messed everything up!"

*sigh*.... Can I sue her for $300M for the emotional suffering I've had from knowing that such stupidity as this exists in the world?

News item: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050705/...sia_comet_case

Dave

[dlavery]

Yes, this has already been pointed out in the second post in this thread (and no matter how many times it is reported in the news, NASA isn't going to pay her! )

-dave

[Jay H 237]

Are there any places that they're posting updated photos of the crater that was created on the comet?

[MrToast]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Yes, this has already been pointed out in the second post in this thread

Guess I should read the entire thread first, eh? Please refer to my WAI picture.

Originally Posted by dlavery

and no matter how many times it is reported in the news, NASA isn't going to pay her!

Oh good. I'd like to think that at least some part of the government doesn't give heed to such idiocies.

Dave

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Are there any places that they're posting updated photos of the crater that was created on the comet?

It looks like the debris cloud kept the "mothership" camera from getting any closeup photos of the actual crater before it went out of view.

[jpsaul7usa]

Planet Fargo posted an amusing story about the mission this week. If you're not familiar with the Gamespy column, the author also links to a few other of his NASA-related articles. We should get this guy to cover some FIRST events

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/632/632178p1.html

[JohnBoucher]

Update here http://www.physorg.com/news5059.html

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by jpsaul7usa

Planet Fargo posted an amusing story about the mission this week. If you're not familiar with the Gamespy column, the author also links to a few other of his NASA-related articles. We should get this guy to cover some FIRST events

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/632/632178p1.html

I also enjoyed their review on the Mars rovers from Jan. 2004.

http://archive.gamespy.com/fargo/january04/marsrover/

[The Mars rovers] may be a technological marvel, but it sucks as a video game.

Sorry Dave.