DeanFogg,

Scientists hoped to prove civilization could alter the path of a menacing asteroid — should one be on a collision course with our planet — and they successfully nudged the (non-threatening) 525-foot-wide space rock.

Nice.

The 14,000 mph DART impact was like slamming a spacecraft the size of a vending machine into a space rock the size of a stadium.

Hmmm.

karagoth,

Love that analogy, most of us have been at a stadium and seen a vending machine there, and so can really feel how insignificant it is in comparison.

fearout, (edited )
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Yeah, that second sentence has such a weird wording. It either was like slamming a vending machine into a stadium, or it was slamming an X-sized spacecraft into a Y-sized space rock. Why have that “like” there?

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