Widdershins wrote:
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 08:09:08 GMT, "ring_theory"
licked the point of a #2 Yellow Pencil, and wrote:

I hope they win and nasa has to terminate the mission.
we shouldn't be messing with things we know little or nothing about.

9p temple 1 slingshots between jupiter and mars this impact is going
to do 2
things decrease it's mass and increase it's velocity. I suspect that
nasa is
trying to get the comet to impact with mars adding water to the
planet which
would be good for mars. problem is that by increasing the velocity
of the
comet it is more likely it won't complete it's slingshot it'll reach
escape
velocity to soon and be hurtled in an unexpected direction most
likely right
into earths path. if by chance it's not a immediate responce by
impact or
the unexpected direction thing it may still do it years down the
line as
soon as the fall of 2010.

And your degree in orbital mechanics is from...?

The Inquisition probably. Remember.
The Sun goes round the Earth ROTFLMAO
the mass is reduced ???????
Are you sure that the poster isn't attempting to get their Iq into the
low single figures ??