Early this morning, NASA’s Deep Impact space probe blasted away a chunk of Comet Tempel to see what’s inside. Apparently the mission went off without a hitch. Congrats to the Deep Impact team, and here’s looking forward to seeing what people smarter than me can learn from all the data that’s been sent back.
I fully support using my tax dollars to blast holes in other space objects. In fact, I can’t think of a better use.