I keep wondering why we haven't gotten an earful from the end-of-the-world crowd about Deep Impact.

 

Are they still hanging their heads in shame about the Millenium Bug, or are they all too busy preparing for Peak Oil now?!

I hadn't heard anything about it until the thread on these forums. I'm sure something has to be well known before it can be called a cover-up.

 

The Millenium Bug one bordered on genuine, planes wouldn't have fallen from the sky but some buisnesses would certainly have been disrupted if they didn't take a couple of hours to prepare for it.

I think it's because they know there isn't a cat in hell's chance of anything disastrous coming from what's happened.

no-ones worried that the comet might return fire? Or get thrown off course and into the sun, which would then explode?

 

Pangaloss is right, the dooms-dayers are getting lazy.

Actually, that comet is the return of Hale-Bopp, there's a spaceship hiding behind it.

Oh no, I spoke too soon!

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-russia-comet-case,1,2124097.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

 

Marina Bai has sued the U.S. space agency, claiming the Deep Impact probe that punched a crater into the comet Tempel 1 late Sunday "ruins the natural balance of forces in the universe," the newspaper Izvestia reported Tuesday. A Moscow court has postponed hearings on the case until late July, the paper said.

She's sueing? Can we all sue then? Could the whole world sue NASA? That'd be cool.

well, having in mind that unfortunately the people who believe in astrology are so numerous, NASA will soon go bankrupt

You sure about that? I know lots of people read horoscopes but I'm sure it's a miniscule amount who take them seriously.

Taking them seriously and claiming to for one's own benefit are two different things.

 

btw, did that astrologer predict that NASA would do this and she would benefit financially from it?