Blasting craters in an asteroid. For science!

I'm not sure I can do a better job summing up this story than Jeremy Hsu did in his tweet about it: "Let's blow stuff up on an asteroid to make craters for science. Seriously."

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Anonymous

I don’t know if you’ll even read this, but when you said Jeremy Hsu, I thought you meant Jerry Hsu, the professional skateboarder.

Then I imagined this man reading science articles while skating sick ramps, doing tricks and stuff.

Unfortunately they’re not the same person.
I wonder how often this happens though?

Is there a blog that documents mistaken identity cases like this?
I would start one but unfortunately I don’t have the raw internet know-how.

It would be called the “I’m Not Really” Blog.
People would submit their mistaken identity stories and then sign them with “I’m not really (celebrity etc)” or “(Person’s name) is not really (other person’s name).”

I just think it would be a cool idea.
emmdeeaych

pew pew….. SCIENCE!
Anonymous

Fine… Just leave the Moon alone and make sure the asteroid is heading away from us you turkeys or should I say maniacs?

I remember your first little trick in the Squash Court

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcjuVCsO_is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZFHTa6TfA
Anonymous

The device pictured in the article has a uncanny resemblance to a thermal detonator from Star Wars.
Spikeles

Note quite explosives, but we did crash a probe into an asteroid once.

(note from article: “Instead of using explosives, it was also cheaper to use copper as the payload” )