NASA draws up plans for nuke-packing asteroid interceptor

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Jacob Kennedy @ Aug 8th 2007 4:59PM

Good. I don't think Bruce Willis will be able to save us in another 21 years.

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g.Park @ Aug 8th 2007 5:27PM

Bruce Willis will always be there to save us.

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Tacticus @ Aug 8th 2007 6:14PM

You mean RDA right?

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Andrew Fong @ Aug 8th 2007 11:08PM

No, we just need Chuck Norris.

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I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 9th 2007 4:01AM

NASA has already had one sucessful run at this. About two years ago in a test, they managed to lob explosives at an comet and hit it right where they wanted it to.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4728502
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=nasa+%22Tempel+1%22+%22deep+impact%22&btnG=Search

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I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Aug 9th 2007 4:07AM

I am limited to the number of links I can post, so here is video of the "Deep Impact Project" that smashed a probe into "Tempel 1".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eIY_9u-p0g

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