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		Comets gone wild 2 (with picture) (telegraph.co.uk)		31
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PPL_Wannabe		2004-06-19 08:31:40 PM

Photo is a composite.

Pretty cool story though.

coreapoc		2004-06-20 01:33:03 AM

Worst.Boobies.Link.Ever.

Whats that? Oh ... Umm ... kinda looked like a boob ... if you turn to the side some and squint and try to watch tv at the same time

Betelgeus		2004-06-20 01:33:08 AM

I'd like to see the giant who left those footprints

hellroy		2004-06-20 01:33:21 AM

I, for one, welcome our new microscopic overlords.

ETA 2006.

Christian Bale		2004-06-20 01:33:30 AM

Two swarms of microscopic cometary dust blasted Stardust, according to a University of Chicago instrument on board.

The materials range in size from particles that could fit on the head of a pin to boulders the size of a truck. Several particles larger than bullets struck the spacecraft.

What?...how did microscopic dust become truck sized? or even bullet sized?

JewelArtist		2004-06-20 01:36:11 AM

It's coming right for us!!

Pandoras Box		2004-06-20 01:37:24 AM

Yeah that is cool I think we better call Bruce

CrazyTalk		2004-06-20 01:42:46 AM

oh i thought it said "Comics Gone Wild". i was expecting wonderwoman flashing and cat woman doing crazy stuff

Dungeon Shade		2004-06-20 01:43:55 AM

Haha I love this new fark.com cliche. Asteroids. Seems like every 3 articles is about asteroids.

I for one welcome our new cliche overlords.

BLIAD THE IMPALER		2004-06-20 01:44:18 AM

Yep, it's all fun and games until
somebody get's their planet poked out....

Farking out loud		2004-06-20 01:48:15 AM

JewelArtist: "It's coming right for us!!"

South Park rules!

JewelArtist		2004-06-20 01:52:10 AM

Farking out loud : Ahhhh yeah...

hellroy		2004-06-20 01:59:05 AM

ye seems wierd, but hey at least they are putting decent looking farkettes pics up, unlike whoever that was last week that appeared for 2-3 days..

RepNatComm		2004-06-20 02:12:25 AM

Just wait til next year when NASA lands a probe on the other comet they're tageting. I bet the added gravitational pull of the probe will cause the comet to change course and crash into the earth. Game over for humanity.

Confabulat		2004-06-20 02:18:10 AM

I, for one, think this is some cool shiat.

I think it's amazing that we saw this flying by in the sky, and someone decided to aim a rocketship at it:

Just the fact that we can shoot a rocket to intercept a comet is amazing. But then you figure it's got a camera too.

Just when my mind can't get any more blown, they tell me it's COMING BACK TO EARTH with a bunch of comet stardust.

That's the frickin' future 21st century style that I've been looking for!

hellroy		2004-06-20 02:24:01 AM

thinking about stardust, and all the potentiel kewl sci-fi scenarious (which would never really happen)

I remebered the outer limit episodes called (first 2 episodes of the series), now that show was better then twilight zone or tales from the crypt.

BLIAD THE IMPALER		2004-06-20 02:25:38 AM

Also brought back by the probe....

hellroy		2004-06-20 02:26:06 AM

2 mistakes in the above post, its scenarios(I hope so :) )

I meant to delete the "called", becuase I forgot the name of the episodes(too lazy to check it up).

FoxholeAtheist		2004-06-20 02:36:05 AM

A note to creationists:

Let's see your creation science powered starship do this, motherfarkers.

sfphinkter		2004-06-20 02:36:27 AM

Please land on Texas, please land on Texas...

/finger crossed

Der_Hammer		2004-06-20 02:37:58 AM

It looks like NASA discovered the Photoshop "glow" effect to me...

SpamRaider		2004-06-20 03:01:41 AM

FoxholeAtheist

/Golf clap

m00		2004-06-20 03:21:51 AM

The Stardust spacecraft reached comet Wild 2 in January after a six-year journey of two billion miles.

That puts it at 38,051 mph...

Anyone want to photoshop a riced-out NASA probe?

HagarTheHorrible		2004-06-20 03:25:02 AM

Heh. "Left foot, right foot. Left foot, right foot..."

ratboy		2004-06-20 05:42:46 AM

Whoo-Hoo!
Got my cherry, boys!
I just want to thank the academy of admins for their recognition of my brilliance and hard work in achieving this milestone in Fark history.

I will now show you my tits.
(sorry, I got carried away)

I thought it was funny how in the article all the experts were surprised that their expectations were proven wrong by data.
I bet there were some fark-quality flamewars amongst these guys before the images settled the issue.

SG81		2004-06-20 06:07:38 AM

HagarTheHorrible: Heh, was that the same episode where the guy goes, 'survey says...', and points to nothing?

For some reason, I started laughing uncontrollably.

Loki076		2004-06-20 09:02:16 AM

If that's the same comet I'm thinking of I saw the actual photos from the probe passing it at Nasa.guv or some other space website. It was a quick series of photos strung togather so that it looked like a grainy black and white movie but it was still very cool to see.

MN Freeda		2004-06-20 10:15:03 AM

"Daddy, does God have feet??" -Dana Carvey

Actually, they look like prints left by Birkenstocks. Space might just be populated by gigantic ex-Hippies and/or lesbians.

-MNF

LiveFree42		2004-06-20 03:37:31 PM

Reminds me of the plot to Night of the Living Dead, or Andromeda Strain. Probe returns with deadly microbes. ooooh scary...

OlafTheBent		2004-06-20 09:09:24 PM

ratboy

Congrats!

HagarTheHorrible

... loved that episode

DavyBoySmith		2004-06-20 10:51:39 PM

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