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8 hours, 20 minutes till impact
2005-07-03, 2:34 PM #1
so, whos gonna be waching the deep impact mission. I am, i will be using the computer in the house that has high speed internet. it happenes at a resonable time in his time zone. also, we in australia got to be the ones took care of the probe during the most important part of the mission, the seperation of the impact probe from the flyby craft.

Anyway, to rehash, who here will be watching. I will.
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2005-07-03, 2:38 PM #2
I haven't heard anything about this.
2005-07-03, 2:41 PM #3
Me neither.

Enlighten us!
2005-07-03, 2:53 PM #4
click here to be enlightened

also, the coverage starts in 5 hours and fourty minutes. I might just watch a movie after my morning tv shows are done, or do somthing else.
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2005-07-03, 2:55 PM #5
Did they use Metric or Standard this time on the probe?
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2005-07-03, 2:57 PM #6
Basically, they have this "comet buster" which they are sending into a comet to find out what the heck is in the core (if everything works right). I just went looking for a site, but when I typed in www.nasa.gov, it took me to a Deep impact site. So just go there. =)

Edit: Bah! Beat me to it. =(
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2005-07-03, 3:00 PM #7
dont think it matters when the thing being released is ment to crash. oh and it wanst nasa that got confused, with that mars mission, nasa used metric as normal, while lockhead martin was the one that used imperial mesurments.
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2005-07-03, 3:02 PM #8
also, the lucky people watching at the cornel space center get to eat some caramel/chocolate ice-cream to celebrate.
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2005-07-03, 3:48 PM #9
You forgot the option "No, the project is a complete waste of money."
2005-07-03, 3:50 PM #10
Compared to other "meaningless," or whatever you might call it, programs and things the government spends tax money on, NASA gets only a small portion.
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2005-07-03, 3:53 PM #11
Post a poll for them with that option. I'm sure I'll select it for most of them.
2005-07-03, 3:53 PM #12
Quote:
Originally posted by IRG SithLord
You forgot the option "No, the project is a complete waste of money."


Laugh now, you have until the comet lands on you. :p
2005-07-03, 4:04 PM #13
i'm gonna watch on tv late tonight.
2005-07-03, 5:54 PM #14
It says Impacted

July 4th 2005


If thats true then Nasa is in the future.

Cuz its still July 3rd.

:rolleyes:
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2005-07-03, 6:02 PM #15
I will indeed be watching. How could you not, it's NASA!!!
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2005-07-03, 6:05 PM #16
I wish it wasn't hitting in the middle of the night. Who ever thought up the timing for this thing? Jeez...
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2005-07-03, 6:09 PM #17
How much longer now? And will you be able to see anything with the human eye? Or do you need a telescope? Or rather a Television >.<
Think while it's still legal.
2005-07-03, 6:20 PM #18
The impact is being discussed on the Orbiter web forum (generally a great place for these things, but beware of high level technical banter). Unfortunately the actual collision will not be visible for the eastern US, though even if you could see it, there probably wont be a whole lot to see.

I personally am going to just watch the Nasa live webcast, not that I am expecting to see much, just some fuzzy B&W feed of a large amorphous object filling the screen, then eventually static....
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2005-07-03, 6:24 PM #19
Oooh, it'll be like watching the feeds from the TV-guided missiles.

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2005-07-03, 8:12 PM #20
I had forgotten all about this! I'll do my best to watch it tonight - it just depends on whether my parents let me stay up that late to watch it. :o Being 14 and having overprotective parents sucks.
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2005-07-03, 8:29 PM #21
meh
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2005-07-03, 8:33 PM #22
Score, they're doing a webcast from Dyer Observatory.
2005-07-03, 9:08 PM #23
I MISSED IT.



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2005-07-03, 9:09 PM #24
Quote:
Originally posted by Macro_Roshuma
It says Impacted

July 4th 2005


If thats true then Nasa is in the future.

Cuz its still July 3rd.

:rolleyes:


...

Timezones?
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2005-07-03, 9:11 PM #25
So, what happened?
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2005-07-03, 9:18 PM #26
Actually I was wrong. It hits in one hour and 21 minutes.


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2005-07-03, 9:22 PM #27
Are we dead yet?
2005-07-03, 9:33 PM #28
Quote:
Time to abandon ship! Ha ha ha!

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2005-07-03, 9:39 PM #29
Sweet, I just found out DirecTV carries NASA TV, lol. Don't have to watch this ugly webcast.
2005-07-03, 9:43 PM #30
$279 million seems like an aweful lot for bashing a copperheaded hunk of metal with a few sensors into a comet and watching the crap that it belches out.
2005-07-03, 10:04 PM #31
For those others that are confused (like I was) about what time this will happen, a woman on the Nasa channel said it will go off at 1:52am eastern time. Right now it's 12:05am central time, so it should be going off in 47 minutes.

Right? I don't have the time zone differences mixed up do I? >_>
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2005-07-03, 10:08 PM #32
It's 12:09 here in central time :(
2005-07-03, 10:29 PM #33
24 minutes until impact!!!!:o
2005-07-03, 10:35 PM #34
Where is the stream anyway?
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2005-07-03, 10:39 PM #35
Where can I see this?
Nothing to see here, move along.
2005-07-03, 10:40 PM #36
Quote:
Originally posted by Monkey_Man
Where is the stream anyway?


http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
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2005-07-03, 10:43 PM #37
10 mins till impact they are saying on the live feed.
Think while it's still legal.
2005-07-03, 10:48 PM #38
5 mins till impact.
Think while it's still legal.
2005-07-03, 10:55 PM #39
Wtf..I've had a perfect stream for the last 20 minutes straight with no interruptions, now suddenly as it as impacting it stops.
2005-07-03, 10:55 PM #40
Impacted.
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