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NASA will intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid at 15,000mph on Monday
2022-09-25
[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

#9  ...or played too much Asteroids as a kid at the mall.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-09-25 15:33  

#8  Someone from NASA was watching too much TV.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-09-25 14:11  

#7  Something from the 'good idea fairy'.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-25 11:23  

#6  This is going the end up in the "Briefs well, executes like shit" folder.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-09-25 08:39  

#5  ^ I simply loved the movie, Skidmark. It was probably prophetic too.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-25 07:09  

#4  Don't Look UP
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-25 06:59  

#3  Oh, No!
What could go wrong?
More Anthony Fauci "gain of function" radical, dangerous experiments.
Posted by: boomerc   2022-09-25 06:27  

#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  

#1  Sounds like a very good use of money.
Posted by: Chris   2022-09-25 01:00  

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