"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


When I first watched "Deep Impact" I was quite impressed when they
mentioned the speed-of-light delay, though I can't help feeling that
if it was only 20 seconds it would be far too late to deflect
Wolf-Biederman.


I still like the Soviet nuclear bomb platform in dangerous decay from
its 1000 mile high orbit in "Space Cowboys"- this must have been the
solar maximum to end all solar maximums! ;-)


No no no... it's just REALLY HEAVY so it falls faster!



Pat