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Offline Cymric

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Re: Deep Impact
« on: July 04, 2005, 10:22:47 PM »
Shooting an ICBM out of the sky requires tremendous computing power and highly accurate navigational systems: you only have a few minutes to compute a target solution and deploy your countermeasures. Now compare that to the relative ease of months of trajectory calculations which saw Deep Impact impact on Temple 1.
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