OT: Comet Tempel impact - first image

[Terry Pinnell]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html

6 years in the planning, 172 day trip, and bang on target. Now that's
engineering!

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Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

 

[martin griffith]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 08:05:31 +0100, in sci.electronics.design Terry
Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html

6 years in the planning, 172 day trip, and bang on target. Now that's
engineering!
Nah, rubbish

Fly a 747 2m above the ground, at mach 2 and count the blades of grass
beneath you.

Thats engineering, as in a hard disk drive



martin