Update - Boffins: COMETS are like FRIED ICE CREAM. Mmm

Boffins working for Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created comet-like stuff in a cryostat. Along the way, they've decided that your average comet is kind of like fried ice-cream: squishy on the inside, crusty on the outside, with organic chemicals dusted on top. Both the ESA's Rosetta and NASA's Deep Impact …

[Mark 85]

I suppose then that hot fudge syrup and sprinkles wouldn't make them taste good then? Interesting analogy they used to say the least but the results of the science are mind-blowing.

[Khaptain]

I read that wrong

I read that as "Comments are like fried ice-cream" . I thought this was going to be about the ephemeral nature of thread comments....

[Zog_but_not_the_first]

Wonderful

Specifically a "Fab". But you'll need a "Zoom" to get to one.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'VE KNOWN THAT FOR YEARS.

Have the scientists finally read "Lucifer's Hammer" ??

[tony2heads]

comet demo

Know a guy who did science demo's with his version being:

Dry Ice

Water (freezes with dry ice)

dusted with instant coffee granules.

Seemed to match the spectroscopy quite well

More like iced coffee than fried icecream.

[Mystic Megabyte]

No sale

In space no-one can hear your ice-cream van :(

[Graham Marsden]

But...

... what flavour?

[Little Mouse]

Mmmmm

Their description sounds more like a Baked Alaska with sprinkles.

Or maybe a sunburnt Vienetta.

[Martin]

Fairy floss?

Here in England, it was always called candy floss when I was a kid. Never heard of fairy floss.

[MonkeyFeet]

Halley's cornet

[Stevie]

Bah!

So, in texture it is more like a fried Mars bar then?