wow
... that's a lot of scripts I need to enable just to get the flash player up ... no, wait, still no flash player detected. Hmm.
It's being billed as an epic battle between two cosmic forces - and The Reg is pleased to point our readers to a free ringside seat. In the live NASA feed below, you be able to watch the nail-biting moments before and after the 2km wide Comet Ison reaches its closest point of approach to the Sun at 18:44 GMT (13:44 Eastern, 10 …
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You aren't missing anything. They're all puzzled as to why the comet (or what's left of it) hasn't appeared around the other side of the sun. Nobody seems to have questioned whether or not the reason for that is the alien space ship that was disguised as a comet has put on the brakes now that it's out of sight.
You get to see the death of a comet live every day don't you?
There's plenty of data to munch on, and coming from the Oort cloud it may well teach us something about what is out there. It's hardly as if we're able to go out there and have a look ourselves, don't we?
Just because we're losing out on a bit of fireworks in the sky people are getting all down and out? Now that's a fail...