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2022-09-25 Science & Technology

NASA will intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid at 15,000mph on Monday

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was launched last year and is due to collide with asteroid on Monday

NASA's first 'planetary defence' craft will try to deflect asteroid Dimorphos, which is 6.8 million miles from us

$325 million mission may sound like the plot of Hollywood blockbuster such as Armageddon or Deep Impact

But it could prove useful for altering the course of an asteroid years or decades before it bears down on Earth

I seen dis movie.

Posted by Fred 2022-09-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Sounds like a very good use of money.

Posted by Chris 2022-09-25 01:00|| 2022-09-25 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2
"Mission control, the craft has hit the bogey! And it's changing trajectory!"

"This is mission control. Confirm trajectory shift to within estimated."

Time passes.

"This is mission control. Confirm trajectory shift to..."

"Okay, mission control? Trajectory's shifted alright. Now it's heading straight to us."

More time passes.

"Mission control? Anybody there?"

Frantic gunning for the parking lot back at the centre, calls and faxes and whiny prayers and some last minute funeral fornication in the break room.

"Mission control?"

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-25 04:32|| 2022-09-25 04:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, No!
What could go wrong?
More Anthony Fauci "gain of function" radical, dangerous experiments.

Posted by boomerc 2022-09-25 06:27|| 2022-09-25 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't Look UP

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-25 06:59|| 2022-09-25 06:59|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ I simply loved the movie, Skidmark. It was probably prophetic too.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-25 07:09|| 2022-09-25 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 This is going the end up in the "Briefs well, executes like shit" folder.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-09-25 08:39|| 2022-09-25 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Something from the 'good idea fairy'.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-25 11:23|| 2022-09-25 11:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Someone from NASA was watching too much TV.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-09-25 14:11|| 2022-09-25 14:11|| Front Page Top

#9 ...or played too much Asteroids as a kid at the mall.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-25 15:33|| 2022-09-25 15:33|| Front Page Top

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