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On 10/6/2021 1:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Comet Visitor https://xkcd.com/2524/

Nah, we don't need to clean up the place since Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is coming for a visit in 2031. Have you
seen the asteroid belt ? It is a total mess.

But not a mess which would reflect poorly on humanity - which is, I
think, the concern of the characters in the strip.

(I mean, that moon dust was pristine and untouched pre-1969.)

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Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
I doubt that there’s something about British culture
that makes the country especially good at lipids.
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xkcd: Comet Visitor
https://xkcd.com/2524/

Nah, we don't need to clean up the place since Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is coming for a visit in 2031. Have you seen
the asteroid belt ? It is a total mess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2014_UN271_(Bernardinelli-Bernstein)

Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2524:_Comet_Visitor

Lynn

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On 10/6/2021 1:04 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/6/2021 1:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Comet Visitor https://xkcd.com/2524/

Nah, we don't need to clean up the place since Comet C/2014 UN271
(Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is coming for a visit in 2031.  Have you
seen the asteroid belt ?  It is a total mess.

But not a mess which would reflect poorly on humanity - which is, I
think, the concern of the characters in the strip.

(I mean, that moon dust was pristine and untouched pre-1969.)

Are you sure ? Didn't we bounce a few rockets off it in the early 1960s ?

Lynn

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On 10/6/2021 2:52 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 10/6/2021 1:04 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/6/2021 1:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Comet Visitor https://xkcd.com/2524/

Nah, we don't need to clean up the place since Comet C/2014 UN271
(Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is coming for a visit in 2031. Have
you seen the asteroid belt ? It is a total mess.

But not a mess which would reflect poorly on humanity - which is, I
think, the concern of the characters in the strip.

(I mean, that moon dust was pristine and untouched pre-1969.)

Are you sure ? Didn't we bounce a few rockets off it in the early
1960s ?

The Ranger series - but those might be passed off as meteor impacts.

--
Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
I doubt that there’s something about British culture
that makes the country especially good at lipids.
- Paul Krugman

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In article <is6gj0FfbujU1@mid.individual.net>,
Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 10/6/2021 2:52 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 10/6/2021 1:04 PM, Mark Jackson wrote:

On 10/6/2021 1:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

xkcd: Comet Visitor https://xkcd.com/2524/

Nah, we don't need to clean up the place since Comet C/2014 UN271
(Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is coming for a visit in 2031. Have
you seen the asteroid belt ? It is a total mess.

But not a mess which would reflect poorly on humanity - which is, I
think, the concern of the characters in the strip.

(I mean, that moon dust was pristine and untouched pre-1969.)

Are you sure ? Didn't we bounce a few rockets off it in the early
1960s ?

The Ranger series - but those might be passed off as meteor impacts.

There are Surveyors, Lunar Lander first stages, at least one moon buggy
(or is it two?), several flags, one golf ball, plus Soviet and Chinese
lunar landers. That's a lot of clean up.

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Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. —-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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