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.

3 comments:

Texan99 said...

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.

james said...

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?

Texan99 said...

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