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On November 28, while many Americans will be sitting down to roast turkey and all the trimmings, Comet ISON faces being slowly cooked to death as it passes within a million miles of the Sun's surface. Now a top expert says the cosmic snowball has a less than fifty-fifty chance of surviving the encounter. "It's going to get …

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    So if Ison does end up getting roasted...

    It will be a turkey of a comet?

    (There was a pretty decent PBS/National Geographic Channel special on the comet last week. It might be available online at PBS.org if anyone is interested.)

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  3. Paul Smith

    Intelligent design at Nasa?

    "... it will have started falling towards the Sun more than a million years ago, well before mankind even came down from the trees... "

    I think our ancestors left the trees a lot more then one million years ago...

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    1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge
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      Re: Intelligent design at Nasa?

      Was just coming here to post that myself. Depending on which subspecies you choose to include in the term "human", humans are between 8 and 6 million years old while hominids are at least 15 million years old.

      We came out of the trees a hell of a lot longer than 1 million years ago.

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      1. asdf
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        Re: Intelligent design at Nasa?

        Yeah I am sure the biologists and anthropologists cringed at that statement and wished the author kept to writing solely about astrophysics. Jarring, inaccurate, and completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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      Re: Intelligent design at Nasa?

      Maybe they were up in the trees watching all the comets?

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    3. Paul Hovnanian Silver badge
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      Re: Intelligent design at Nasa?

      "I think our ancestors left the trees a lot more then one million years ago..."

      I return from time to time: http://www.hovnanian.com/images/treetrim.jpg

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    Two views a day

    5am and 7pm - getting up and coming home. Nice. Just have to hope that we don't get our usual 10/10 cloud cover here!

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      Time Zones Please?

      Some of us are somewhere else on the planet!

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  6. Anonymous John

    Re Since it was first spotted in September

    September 2012 that is.

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