In what has to be the product of people getting high down in Cape Canaveral, NASA has announced its intention to BLOW UP A COMET on, I swear, July 4th. The mission will cost around 300 million dollars. So that they can blow up a comet.
     Now you may ask me, “Benjamin, is this comet headed perilously to earth, threatening our planet and our lives like some kind of space terrorist? Is NASA in fact saving us from certain death? Are deep-sea oil drillers en route to said comet as we speak? Will Bruce Willis make it back alive? WELL? WILL HE?” And to you I say no, dear reader, this is but a normal, mild mannered sort of comet, discovered in 1867, that is simply ambling about in space minding its own business. THAT IS UNTIL JULY 4TH.
     So, why pop an intergalactic cap in this harmless comet’s ass? It apparently has something to do with probing its contents to find out something about the origins of the universe. Supposedly. I however can only offer you the date of the event, and this fact: You will be able to see the explosion from earth. Get it? Fireworks, on Independence Day. This just strikes me as another way for the US to flex its unwieldy national muscle, for no particular reason. While I am excited about the possible information to be gained from such an exercise, I am not at all certain that going around and blowing up things just so that we can see what’s inside is a good policy to have. That’s what we did in Iraq, and let’s just look at how that turned out.
     This whole thing reminds me of the first 10 minutes of a crappy science fiction movie. One that starts out with over zealous scientists in over their heads, and ends with radioactive creatures tearing up our coastline, and all our action heros are all to old to save us from the dammed dirty apes. What will be the official quote on July 5th? “It blowed up real good.”
  
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