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Looks like they're taking a page from the Dana White Playbook.
NASA action figures.
Looks like they're taking a page from the Dana White Playbook.
NASA is the UFC of science with their "big announcements"
Astronomy forums are buzzing with speculation about newly-discovered Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON). Currently located beyond the orbit of Jupiter, Comet ISON is heading for a very close encounter with the sun next year. In Nov. 2013, it will pass less than 0.012 AU (1.8 million km) from the solar surface. The fierce heating it experiences then could turn the comet into a bright naked-eye object.
"In the best case, the comet is big, bright, and skirts the sun next November. It would be extremely bright -- negative magnitudes maybe -- and naked-eye visible for observers in the Northern Hemisphere for at least a couple of months."
Going to school at an Aeronautical University I blasted it out to a friend who used to work for NASA and he sent me this web-site.
He hasn't worked there for 3 years so he is not sure if this is what they are talking about, its just his guess.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/scitech/display.cfm?ST_ID=2504
At what point did NASA need a hype machine?
At what point did NASA need a hype machine?
Well, that might be it. But maybe these two web designers were hired by NASA to design a "cool" website and these guys decided to register with Namecheap? Who knows...
It's also running out of Panama.
probably some Prothean ruins