Sometimes it’s the little things that amuse me the most. Want to have be a part of a Deep Impact? Then Send Your Name to a Comet! Fill out the form with your name, and NASA will add it to the impactor spacecraft that will collide with Tempel 1. How cool is that? [via Theresa]
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Have Some Deep Impact!
7 replies on “Have Some Deep Impact!”
Very cool, yet somehow vaguelt sinister – i dont know why!
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I am still paying off the land I purchased on the moon, not sure I can afford my name on a comet (lol).
oh that’s too funny — there are gonna be some pretty rude joke names crashing into that comet now, thanks to me…
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is there no end to the friviloties that we will engage in? is this completely necessary? if someone has that much money to waste, then how about contributing to a food bank, or an AIDS hostel or something.
But it didn’t cost me anything to do it? Or do you mean the fact that we’re sending something to explore a comet?
As for NASA’s end of the deal, they’ve done this on several programs in the past. It’s PR to keep the public interested in the space program. I like to do it for Jason, so that he’s interested in studying space and science.
oh. i thought someone had to pay. excuse the rantage, i am just not into the holiday spirit and want to be a grump and everything is annoying me today! 🙂
Well, I’m sure somewhere along the lines someone does pay – NASA. Which translates to our tax dollars. Which is probably money that could be used elsewhere in some way. However, I still like the feeling of blasting my name into space, and it keeps me interested in the space program. So I guess there are two different ways to look at it…