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NASA slammed into an asteroid. Hubble just spotted a spectacular effect. (mashable.com)
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NASA's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results.

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[–] DeanFogg@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Scientists hoped to prove civilization could alter the path of a menacing asteroid — should one be on a collision course with our planet — and they successfully nudged the (non-threatening) 525-foot-wide space rock.

Nice.

The 14,000 mph DART impact was like slamming a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a stadium.

Hmmm.

[–] karagoth@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Love that analogy, most of us have been at a stadium and seen a vending machine there, and so can really feel how insignificant it is in comparison.

[–] fearout@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that second sentence has such a weird wording. It either was like slamming a vending machine into a stadium, or it was slamming an X-sized spacecraft into a Y-sized space rock. Why have that “like” there?