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	Satellite smashing into rock, Good or Bad?

Now this is something that is both good and bad. It's bad for all of the tax money that went to paying for the satellite that is going to crash into this comet. But it's good in the sense that we may possibly get a better understanding of the world and how it works. I myself can't wait for the results. Now is it justifiable to spend probably millions of dollars on a satellite solely for the purpose of smashing it into a giant rock? That is something that we will only know further down the road. There are a few things that could happen from this experiment: One of those things would be that the satellite retrieves the particles from the comet, it is able to get chunks of the core, and we discover things about the universe that we never knew before. That would be great, Information is always a good thing because with information you become knowledgeable, and with knowledge you gain power. Now another possibility is that it completely fails, the satellite hits the comet but is unable to gather any data on it due to a mechanical failure or design flaws (there's hundreds of reasons why it could fail). Now the biggest problem with that is NASA would go and build another one, which costs A LOT of MONEY. Overall if this is something that brings us more knowledge then I say it's a good thing. There is still that part of me that is screaming inside my head asking "Why are we giving them money to build something just so they can go smash it!?"




		If you go to the NASA site they give you the option of looking at the images taken by the satellite, but I was dissapointed to find that all they consist of is either absolutely nothing or a simole dot. Yeah I can see how insatlling a camera capable of taken a clear picture and offering a better visual of the comet would be a waste of money in a sense seeing as how the satellite is going to be destroyed. But then again they could have given the recieving satellite the capability to take decent photos along with its main function of gathering data. That would have been nice. I recommend reading more about the topic at NASA's site. If not you'll only know what I tell you. There are plenty of sites that have status reports on this project. Google News is a good place to start. If you go to Google News and do a search on "Deep Impact" you'll get a dozen different choices to pick that all offer near live updates on this.

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