This can't end well.

I, too, would hit it. I can't pass up tail like that.

hit it and see what happens is every scientists motto...

/scientist

What could possibly go wrong?

fire a rocket at it..... FOR SCIENCE!

Last time I said that, I ended up with the clap and a fat chick who wouldn't stop calling me.

GraphicAddiction

Mmm...Happy Cake Oven...

"We're going to hit it and see what happens"

See that wasps' nest there...?

Hold my beer and watch this.

what exactly is the difference between a 'Live Comet' and a 'Dead Comet'?

A cover story for "oh dear, a comet is going to crash into the planet!"?
..it's the size of Texas, Mr. President.

"We're going to hit it and see what happens"

I like this guys style.

I'd hit it!

No, seriously. Lets knock it into a different orbit so that it smashes into Earth and kills our grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents grandparents

Or, we could just use the US secret government's fleet of UFO's and just frigging fly there in ten minutes.

The monkeys are punching the monolith again.

It's going to knock it back in time WayneKerr?

.. and they'll damage the rock-encrusted spacecraft, inside which ancient malevolent aliens sleep in temporal stasis. They will emerge from their slumber, gather their rocky spacecraft and weapons from the asteroid belt and head to Earth..

OR

.. and they'll divert the course of the comet just a little, so it puts it in the path of Earth 20 years later. Oops!

/oh! I forgot to take my meds!

The first thing I pictured was the squirrel saying I'd hit it for Canada and instead having him wear a lab coat and glasses and say for science instead of Canada.

/lame
//nerd
///any takers for a photoshop?

NASA is pretty good at making their stuff smash into things.

2004-11-03 06:27:52 PM WayneKerr [TotalFark]

Oops, I didn't see your post. I guess we arrived at a similar conclusion (don't you mean grandchildren?)

It's going to knock it back in time WayneKerr?

That's logic. I recognize that. Time is irrelevant where I come from.

Field test of a space-based kinetic energy weapon.

Cool.

What could possibly go wrong?

/Bruce Willis on standby alert...

2004-11-03 06:30:25 PM hunky_dory77

NASA is pretty good at making their stuff smash into things.

We have to give them credit for finally sticking to something they know they can do.

/just watch, they'll probably set the 800 lb hunk of copper down softly. Ooops!

I'd Tempel 1 it!

/next year's cliche

OMG, it's full of stars!

a grandparent-killing comet would be great. i wouldn't mind do-overs on some of those senate seats and maybe some inheritance money.

These guys have obviously never watched Twilight Zone. this will not end good.

What if comets are really prisons and this one is holding General Zod? Man these guys are hosed.

Deep Impact...

Sounds like a porn movie

If we could just hit it and knock it back in time to kill grandparents then none of us would

Nasa is pretty good at making their stuff smash into things.
Everything really is innuendo, isn't it? Or maybe I'm just a moron...

In reality (ha ha), they could launch any one of us at a high enough velocity so that we would make a big enough crater for the scientits.

The question is: Which one of us is it going to be?

I vote... sorry.

/tists

that has to be one of the greatest lines ever, EVER!

""We're going to hit it and see what happens," said Deep Impact principal investigator Michael A'Hearn, an astronomer at the University of Maryland."

A little behind schedule though....

"...comets, which are sometimes called "dirty snowballs..."

Damm eggheads with their scientific jargon. "Look, a com-et. Look at the Com-et" God... idiots!!!

sharp knees ?

/got nuthin'

Fark Headline, July 4, 2005:

Scientists chuck something at a comet, discover comets are really seeds for black holes. Here comes the end.

Your dog wants salvation.

Pshhht... Everybody knows it's just gonna break into two identical smaller pieces...

Hitting it isn't going to make the comet comet change orbit into earth. Consider how many millions (billions? trillions?) of objects are out there. If they knock it into a different orbit, that's just one more orbit that has a possibility of intersecting earth one day. Out of bajillions.

/Thank you Mr. Griffin... but I think a real number would be more effective.
//Would put lots of money on our safety
///Because if I'm wrong, we're dead anyway

There could be life on there! What if we seriously piss this thing off?

What ever happened to the collected sun material that crash-landed to Earth? Was there enough left in the wreckage to study? I never heard a follow-up...

/could probably look it up, too lazy.

Best use of I'd hit it cliches . Also with 75% more nasa bashing.

GraphicAddiction

That's a SeaLab 2021 reference right?