NASA pic: DOOMED ice Comet ISON literally had snowball's chance in hell

NASA reckons only a little bit of plucky Comet ISON survived a close encounter with the Sun – and judging by this space photo, we're not surprised. After reaching its perihelion during Thanksgiving, the iceball failed to reappear, at least according to the agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which captured the portion of …

[Anonymous Coward]

Give or take a few letters, ISON is an anagram of MICROSOFT, and they look like the same fate.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Fuck Imma drunk

Microsoft gets treated to late-night observation campaigns?

[Francis Boyle]

And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .

linicks.

[cosymart]

Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .

Didn't know that he had passed on.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .

The Vultures got him.

[Annihilator]

Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .

"Didn't know that he had passed on."

Was apparently banned and all comment history erased. Not sure if there was a specific comment that triggered it.

[Martin Budden]

Re: And the Eadon memorial award goes to. . .

There were about a thousand specific comments which triggered it.

[RISC OS]

The poor little comet is lucky...

.... it would have been sued by apple soon.

The want to trade mark iSon, iDad, iMum, and iDaughter.

These are their categories of their customers, and form part of the larger iDiots group.

[CmdrX3]

Eadon... Is that you

[John Smith 19]

dirty snowball + close proximity to sun --> dirt cloud

No doubt there's a size of comet and a minimum range from the sun that a comet would survive.

But it looks like this is not it

[Elmer Phud]

Re: dirty snowball + close proximity to sun --> dirt cloud

You never know -- it always amazed me how a Baked Alaska survived.

[John Smith 19]

Re: dirty snowball + close proximity to sun --> dirt cloud

"You never know -- it always amazed me how a Baked Alaska survived."

I think you'll find the thick layer of air bubbles in the whipped white might have something to do with it.

A comet would need a pretty thick layer to survive that.

[brooxta]

Standard Baked Alaska

I'll have my ISO(N) standards compliant baked Alaska now please waiter.

It's probably part of Elon Musk's SpaceX business plan already. I can see the tagline already, "SpaceX: Serving sumptuous sol-scorched slices to the solar system." I'd probably buy shares in that.

[SpeakerToAliens]

If you can't stand the heat...

...stay out of the solar corona.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: If you can't stand the heat...

"You came to the wrong neighbourhood, iceball! Now you are toast."

[Anonymous Coward]

Like a snowball's chance in

Hell.

I'll get my coat now...

[Torben Mogensen]

Icarus

For flying too close to the sun and burning its wings, Icarus would be a better name for ISON.

[Tompkinson]

Sun Probe

Comet ISON died because they didn't call on the services of International Rescue. It worked for Sun Probe so I'm sure The Tracey Boys, Tin Tin (mmm original gurrl power), Thunderbirds 3 and 2, Brains and Braman could have saved the day.