Friday, January 14

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What's That, Lassie?

Timmy's destroyed the Solar System again?
When comets collide with small asteroids or spacecraft, they can breakup into smaller comets and sungrazer comets as shown in the picture of the Comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte. The fragments are spread over millions of kilometers.

On July 4, 2005. NASA plans to collide a 370 kilogram spacecraft into the Comet 9P/Tempel 1. The ensuing 16,000-megaton explosion will shatter the 140 billion antimatter metric ton comet into trillions of pieces. Based upon to my computer model, the antimatter fragments are going to collide with Mars, Earth and Sun in the subsequent years.

In 2110, metric ton antimatter fragments will start colliding with the Earth and producing 10, 000 megaton explosions. As trillions of fragments continue to migrate toward the Sun during the 22nd millennium, thousands of 10 to 10,000 megaton explosions will devastate Earth’s environment. Humanity will be brought to the brink of extinction.

This would, you understand, be bad.
Over the centuries, trillions of fragments will drift toward the Sun. When the antimatter fragments, called sungrazer, collide with the sun, multi-billion megaton explosions produce enormous sunspots and solar flares stretching millions of kilometers into space.

I have written NASA Office of Space Science and had discussions with NASA’s personnel. They have a general understand; but unfortunately, they don’t comprehend a 16,000-megaton explosion with a comet. I have request NASA cancel the Deep Impact launch scheduled for December 30, 2004.

Dear Crazy Person,

We at NASA appreciate your interest in this matter. Please keep us informed of any further research you may be attempting into this or other related subjects.

Regards,

Dr Hertz Lottly
NASA Office of Staff Morale

(Hat tip: Cecil on Skeptical Community)

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1 Funnily enough, 10,000 megatons is close to the correct figure for a ton of antimatter annihilating with a ton of matter. I get 40,000 megatons on the back of this envelope, which considering the scale involved is not much of a difference.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, January 14 2005 07:02 AM (+S1Ft)

2 22nd millennium? So we've got 20,000 years then?
Yeah, I can see why NASA doesn't want to talk to this guy.

Posted by: JP Gibb at Friday, January 14 2005 09:08 AM (aNKFx)

3 This is quite unimportant compared to the threat posed to Earth by the Nike Corporation. By my calculations, if Nike produces just 10% more shoes this year, they will pass the Shoe Event Horizon and civilization will come to an end. The few remaining people will curse the ground and evolve the power of flight. I have warned them repeatedly and requested they stop producing shoes, but their corporate greed has apparently destroyed their ability to reason.

Posted by: TallDave at Friday, January 14 2005 11:20 AM (lZMuK)

4 Good heavens... I haven't seen "Shoe Event Horizon" used in casual (or even formal!) conversation in a stoat's years. Woo. Yay.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, January 14 2005 10:03 PM (VZBSf)

5 Do you think that McDonalds could somehow harness this exciting new energy source? Burger King brags about "flame broiled", but I can see the new McD slogan: "the only burger that (anti) matters".

Posted by: Ted at Saturday, January 15 2005 07:21 AM (blNMI)

6 Wonderduck, I have good news for you: www.hitchhikermovie.com

Posted by: TallDave at Saturday, January 15 2005 05:48 PM (lZMuK)

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