Monday, April 01, 2013

New Mars Mission?

Apparently comet 2013-A1 is headed in the general direction of Mars, and has a 1/2000 chance of hitting it with nearly dino-killer energy.

All in favor of a NASA emergency mission to nudge the comet to the bulls-eye, raise your hand.

Thought so.

Yes, I thought April Fools too, but this one is dated 26-Mar.

And yes, I read Protector too.
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3 comments:

  1. Texan999:00 AM

    It's return fire from the people of the former fifth planet, now the Asteroid Belt. Some of them escaped and have spent all this time building their forces back up for a revenge mission.

    And it serves the Martians right, too, for shooting down some of our explorers.

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  2. james9:11 PM

    Can you think of a better way of deeply probing the Martian crust? Or a proof of principle that we can deflect asteroids away from the Earth?

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  3. Texan999:49 PM

    I admit that one of my first thoughts was, "And miss the show?"

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