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No Space Amoebas were reported to be issuing from the comet.

 

Russ, you can geet a good night's sleep now.  :jawdrop:

 

Of course, at the same time of the impact on the coment, a huge 1 Km tall geyser of water appeared south of Iwo Jima ... the water in the area turned red .. and volumes of gray-brown material that is steaming vapors began to appear on the surface of the water. News reports say it is likely an underwater volcano. Strangely no one has reported any seismic readings to support this as of yet. Surely this is all merely coincidence, right???

 

Sleep tight Russ

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Of course, at the same time of the impact on the coment, a huge 1 Km tall geyser of water appeared south of Iwo Jima ... the water in the area turned red .. and volumes of gray-brown material that is steaming vapors began to appear on the surface of the water.  News reports say it is likely an underwater volcano.  Strangely no one has reported any seismic readings to support this as of yet.  Surely this is all merely coincidence, right???

 

Sleep tight Russ

 

Hmm....mysterious underwater occurrence...near a Japanese island...could it be, might it be...Godzilla!!!

 

:jawdrop:

 

 

Of course, it might just be that the Thraxian Hive is a bit po'd that we struck one of their system comm relay sites with an object and the disturbance is due to the untold thousands of tentacles thrashing about in agitation...

 

:python:

 

Pick your poison for tonight's dreams... :oops:

 

 

Russ

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Scheduled for July 4th so let's all hope for a successful mission  :)

 

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/deepimpa...ront/index.html

 

P.S.  And hope that the impact does not release a giant Space Amoeba  B)

 

I liked the sequence of pictures from the probe itself where the comet appears out of total blackness and then gets bigger and bigger and .....

 

--(other)Russ

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"Henderson," he called, "you saw that shooting star last night?"

 

"Well?" said Henderson.

"It's out on Horsell Common now."

 

"Good Lord!" said Henderson. "Fallen meteorite! That's good."

 

"But it's something more than a meteorite. It's a cylinder--an artificial cylinder, man! And there's something inside."

 

Henderson stood up with his spade in his hand.

 

"What's that?" he said. He was deaf in one ear.

 

Ogilvy told him all that he had seen. Henderson was a minute or so taking it in. Then he dropped his spade, snatched up his jacket, and came out into the road. The two men hurried back at once to the common, and found the cylinder still lying in the same position. But now the sounds inside had ceased, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between the top and the body of the cylinder. Air was either entering or escaping at the rim with a thin, sizzling sound.

 

They listened, rapped on the scaly burnt metal with a stick, and, meeting with no response, they both concluded the man or men inside must be insensible or dead.

 

Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end. It was dropping off in flakes and raining down upon the sand. A large piece suddenly came off and fell with a sharp noise that brought his heart into his mouth.

 

For a minute he scarcely realised what this meant, and, although the heat was excessive, he clambered down into the pit close to the bulk to see the Thing more clearly. He fancied even then that the cooling of the body might account for this, but what disturbed that idea was the fact that the ash was falling only from the end of the cylinder.

 

And then he perceived that, very slowly, the circular top of the cylinder was rotating on its body. It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through noticing that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference. Even then he scarcely understood what this indicated, until he heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so. Then the thing came upon him in a flash. The cylinder was artificial--hollow--with an end that screwed out! Something within the cylinder was unscrewing the top!

 

"Good heavens!" said Ogilvy. "There's a man in it--men in it! Half roasted to death! Trying to escape!"

 

At once, with a quick mental leap, he linked the Thing with the flash upon Mars.

 

H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds"

 

B):)

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