Comments on: Deep Impact: Bang! Success! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:45:12 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: CR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5346 CR Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:28:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5346 That's one thing I've noticed about the Japanese: when they decide they can do something, they actually go out and DO IT! Granted, that doesn't always yield the best things, but when it comes to tech/science stuff, I can't fault them for trying. I'm glad someone is willing to actually find out if something can be done, and then goes ahead and does it. Maybe the more success other countries have with their space programs, the more America will be willing to try more things with its own. That’s one thing I’ve noticed about the Japanese: when they decide they can do something, they actually go out and DO IT! Granted, that doesn’t always yield the best things, but when it comes to tech/science stuff, I can’t fault them for trying. I’m glad someone is willing to actually find out if something can be done, and then goes ahead and does it.
Maybe the more success other countries have with their space programs, the more America will be willing to try more things with its own.

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5345 Irishman Mon, 11 Jul 2005 16:19:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5345 Just a comet - er, comment. The Hayabusa (MUSES-C) mission of the Japanese, not only is it a cool comet sample return mission, but it's not even primarily a science mission - it's a technology demonstrator. Their intent is that if it goes well to start a program building lots of these. Yes, multiple sample return missions, low cost. Just a comet – er, comment. The Hayabusa (MUSES-C) mission of the Japanese, not only is it a cool comet sample return mission, but it’s not even primarily a science mission – it’s a technology demonstrator. Their intent is that if it goes well to start a program building lots of these. Yes, multiple sample return missions, low cost.

]]> By: Kurt http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5344 Kurt Fri, 08 Jul 2005 20:50:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5344 I would just like to say that I think this is a great first step for humanity in really understanding how our solar system and ultimately the universe formed. I would love to see missions of this nature come from NASA in the future and hopefully sometime in the near future a manned mission to an asteroid or comet to get "hands-on" research of one of these beasts. To all the NASA scientists and anybody involved in this mission, congratulations!! Kurt Klunder USAF I would just like to say that I think this is a great first step for humanity in really understanding how our solar system and ultimately the universe formed. I would love to see missions of this nature come from NASA in the future and hopefully sometime in the near future a manned mission to an asteroid or comet to get “hands-on” research of one of these beasts. To all the NASA scientists and anybody involved in this mission, congratulations!!

Kurt Klunder
USAF

]]> By: Samara http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5343 Samara Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:15:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5343 "Doesn’t this sound like a Monty Python skit? Maybe if we just plunged the planet into a huge bucket of water - would that keep it from exploding?" I can just imagine the animation for that...:-) the theory though...sheesh no wonder American children are so illiterate in science. Not only do we have the creationists (cretinists) bleating about how we're all going to hell for "believing" in evolution, we also have crackpot scientists trying to cram their ridiculous theories down our throats “Doesn’t this sound like a Monty Python skit? Maybe if we just plunged the planet into a huge bucket of water – would that keep it from exploding?”

I can just imagine the animation for that…:-)

the theory though…sheesh no wonder American children are so illiterate in science. Not only do we have the creationists (cretinists) bleating about how we’re all going to hell for “believing” in evolution, we also have crackpot scientists trying to cram their ridiculous theories down our throats

]]> By: Nigel Depledge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5342 Nigel Depledge Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:04:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5342 Surely that's not THE Brian May...? Who, although having a science degree has not participated in active research for, well I don't know how long. He seems to have been kinda busy doing the music thing from about 1971 to the present day. Brian, music IS your forte (forgive the pun). Science, it seems, is not. Deep Impact has returned more detailed images of a comet nucleus than any pictures I've seen before. Plus, the impact offered the surety (or, at least, a very good chance) of examining material from the interior of a comet in a sufficiently large and dense plume that good spectrographic data were obtainable for the first time. It also provided information about the mechanical structure of the comet nucleus. So there. Surely that’s not THE Brian May…? Who, although having a science degree has not participated in active research for, well I don’t know how long. He seems to have been kinda busy doing the music thing from about 1971 to the present day.

Brian, music IS your forte (forgive the pun). Science, it seems, is not.

Deep Impact has returned more detailed images of a comet nucleus than any pictures I’ve seen before. Plus, the impact offered the surety (or, at least, a very good chance) of examining material from the interior of a comet in a sufficiently large and dense plume that good spectrographic data were obtainable for the first time. It also provided information about the mechanical structure of the comet nucleus. So there.

]]> By: Axiom http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5341 Axiom Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:39:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5341 Irishman, you're talking about this mission? http://www.spacedaily.com/news/japan-muses-c-04a.html Wow, I knew the Hayabusa was fast but I didn't know it was THAT fast! ;-) http://www.suzukicycles.com/Products/GSX1300RZK5/Default.aspx I kid because this is such amazing work and I burn with envy. Sincere congratulations to all involved. Irishman, you’re talking about this mission?

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/japan-muses-c-04a.html

Wow, I knew the Hayabusa was fast but I didn’t know it was THAT fast! ;-)

http://www.suzukicycles.com/Products/GSX1300RZK5/Default.aspx

I kid because this is such amazing work and I burn with envy.

Sincere congratulations to all involved.

]]> By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/comment-page-1/#comment-5336 Irishman Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:17:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/07/04/deep-impact-bang-success/#comment-5336 Not Hyutake. Hayabusa. Not Hyutake. Hayabusa.

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