I love scientific bullshit like this...

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Nick Hoffman — 7/5/2005 9:21:42 AM (archived)

...NOT!

You quote a Russian to make it sound interesting, then post a bunch of pseudo-scientific crap.

This don't happen in the real world, in an ablating comet. The interior is in deep freeze and well shielded from external heat and electric effects. Even cosmic rays don't do much inside one of those deep frozen balls of primordial snow.

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Deep Impact: More energy released than expected? - Peter Bruener - 7/4/2005 10:19:18 PM
- Depends on who does the expecting... - alcaray - 7/5/2005 4:55:44 PM
- Perhaps it just looked bigger? - JJB - 7/5/2005 12:47:26 PM
- Ejecta material travel - SteveS - 7/5/2005 2:30:40 AM
- Not as big as it could've been - Adam - 7/4/2005 11:24:32 PM
  - So the comet has a personal groomer? - SDAI-Tech1 - 7/6/2005 6:25:02 AM
  - I love scientific bullshit like this... - Nick Hoffman - 7/5/2005 9:21:42 AM
    - hehe... admittedly - Adam - 7/5/2005 10:58:23 AM
      - Look at Callisto. - et - 7/5/2005 10:58:30 PM
        
        Proximity fuse... - Adam - 7/6/2005 1:25:42 PM

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