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Hoping to study the difference between the interior of a comet’s nucleus and its surface, the spacecraft originally was directed toward the comet Tempel 1 to impact it violently and create a substantial crater. Scientist believe controlled cratering would allow a look deep into the interior of the comet and perhaps help science to theorize comets roles in the early evolution of the Earth. Now something has gone terribly wrong.

During scheduled communications with the probe on March 25th, technicians performed a bake-off of moisture in the barrel of the spacecraft’s High Resolution Instrument because its imaging ability was compromised. The bake-off failed to achieve perfect focus, and as if to reward effort with further insult, project managers now believe additional instructions transmitted to refine the crafts trajectory somehow became corrupted and the craft’s direction was altered to its current one. The craft has stopped responding altogether and is swiftly headed straight back to Earth.

Deep Impact is comprised of two parts; a flyby spacecraft and a smaller impactor which was to be released into the comet’s path causing a high-speed collision. The crater that would have been produced by the impactor was expected to range from the width of a house up to the size of a football stadium and be from two to 14 stories deep. Now, instead of meeting the comet Tempel 1, both the impactor and the craft it resides in are currently expected to impact Paris, France in early July.

“Right now it’s a lot of dumb weight headed toward the Eiffel Tower region“, said Dr. Michael A’Hearn of the University of Maryland and the mission leader. “Everyone on the science and engineering teams is getting very worried and dreading the encounter. But we can’t do anything to help at this time; Deep Impact remains completely unresponsive.”

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•  Need to not only update when I'm sad. Bummed out about my knee, istening to Shenmue music which nobody I know understands, and THAT bums me out a little. Childhood issues... Transferrance... videogame stigma... not happy times.  But the themes are important.
  

• Had a an awesome weekend with Ikhlas and his family. Met his mom, hung out with his brothers, and got more muslim culture than I've had my entire life. Had amazing home cooked Pakistani and Indian food.
  

•  Broke my leg being stupid at a party. Liiiitle bit drunk on a trampoline, peer pressure, and me being a dumbfuck. Broken tibia near my heel/ankle, and fibula at the knee. The hospital was far more fun than it should have been.
  

• My friends up here are really cool. They take better care of me than I could imagine, and I don't know what I'd do without them.
  

• Had a great talk with someone who DOES understand about transferrance. Weird being on the other side of a conversation that was a lot like the the Diana talks I had for years.

• I really, really, really hope I'm ok to skimboard this summer.
  

      I went to see Cirque Eloize last night.  I was the most... beautiful show I've seen.  ("What would Courtney be saying right now...")  Awe inspiring acrobats,  dancers, contortionists, strongmen,  trapeeze artists, and um... those guys that make human pyramids. (do they have a name?).   In case I haven't raved at you yet about how kick ass our new performing arts complex is, just um take my word or it.  It's better than your school's.  The athleticism and artistry of the performers and presentation was fantastic, and it had awesome French style (okok... Quebequoise)   with black and white sets and costumes with flashes of red with the props and lighting.  My favourite bit was a guy on stage dancing/spinning with a giant metal ring, rolling inside it like a cartwheeler, spinning and drumming on the table like a spinning quarter about to fall only to pull out of it at the last moment... gorgeous movement.  Another highlight was the acrobats using a teeter-totter... only it wasn't a teeter-totter, it was a catapult.  And they were doing what you imagine thy'd be doing (ya know, being acrobats and all) but it was rediculously impressive.  I want to take dance or gymnastics classes or something now.

     The show stopper was the final set peice, when the floor of the stage began to flood (Eloize means 'distant lightning' and the theme of the show was rain) there was a solo trapeeze artist on a ring who had taken of on a bare stage, but when she swung back and forth and skimmed her toes after swinging around in the air, she splashed and made trails in the shallow water that had covered the entire stage.  Then the acrobats came out and played aqua soccer... (with a fantastic color scheme, black and white with a brilliant red rubber ball) on the stage of the multi million dollar theater...When the surface was still it was surreal to see the performers reflections in a the shallow pool, ad when they splashed, the spray glistened in the lights.  Then it started to rain.  I didn't know you could do that in an auditorium.  Not the way they did it.  It was a beautiful show.  I makes me frustrated to think that they'll experience things I never will and in a sense are more alive than me because of the things they can do with their bodies.  Also, at the end, after house lights were up for about 30 seconds, they had a soft flick of the lights on stage over the water.  I was the only person in my group to see it, and I'm sure only one of a handful of people in the audience to appreciate the little Eloize, and it made me feel sad for non-theater people, the folk who were walking out impressed but uncaring.  I think my motto's gonna be "Ignorance is wack."

     I havn't seen it in a while.  I miss the beach.  I've been staying up late every night and watching surfing movies, (Step Into Liquid, Endless Summer, Endless Summer II) and it's kinda a vicious cycle of goddamniwantogetoutofhere.   Went appartment hunting for next year and that made me pretty depressed. I found a site online that lists skim spots, and apparently there's inland skimming on the American River in Sac, so i might find drivers to go out there.

     I went to the Hella Capella show last night and our school got showed UP by the Berkeley and Santa Cruz groups.  Acapella videogame music :)  not orignal anymore, but it was quality.   Then went out with Ikhlas and went went to a party at someone's house.  We've been hanging out out with lots of gay people lately that we met through choir.  Most of them are full on queens, but they're nice folk.  I keep imagining 'what would Hanson be saying if he were here...'  So the few girl at the party that wern't gay were pretty cute, and John had told them to be all slutty so Ikhlas would drink, but then we found out they were skank-whores.  I dodged a bullet in that the girl I had been flirting with (non skank) ended up hitting on this other guy, but later threw up all over him.

I miss SB people.  All I want to do is go to the beach and have it be summer.  I just want to go skimming with Julie, Vogel, Kiz, Shelley, Devin, Jacob, Wilson, Duncan, Alissa, Justin.  And mess around on stage, and sing, and have bonfires till dawn.