Sadly, this article is full of misinformation and half-truths as well as just being full of....well, you know.
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but a Deep Impact mission is underway, with a NASA spacecraft loaded with explosives scheduled to collide with the Tempel-1 comet on July 4 and blast it to smithereens.
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No explosives on board and the comet won't be blasted to smithereens.
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NASA successfully launched its Deep Impact spacecraft — comprised of a “fly-by” spacecraft and a smaller “impactor” carrying some 350 kilograms of a copper-based explosive —
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Copper based explosive??? Can I have some? Try "the copper impactor will be released and comet Tempel-1 will run into it at a high rate of speed. Possibly creating a crater as large as a stadium (depending on the comet's actual makeup)
And another:
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the consequences of destroying a comet may include anything from an asteroid shower to disruption to radio waves.
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Huh???
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“I am not a scientist,” Molokhov says,
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Truest statement in the article.
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“but experts say the impact could disrupt the comet’s plasma trail, which could have an effect on satellite communications.”
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Would an "expert" really say that???
This is my first post. Sorry all for being long-winded about this but I just had to get it off my chest. Frivalty seems to be a world-wide epidemic.