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Messenger's Mercury trip ends with a bang, and silence
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.
Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it! 
It didn't crash, it just dipped into the lithosphere.
It become part of the accretion of mercury.
Humanity has changed the momentum of a planet. When we look up in 3 billion years and see that Mercury's a few inches from where it should be, we can think to ourselves: "Damn. We did that. Awesome."
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.  "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
Hate to be a party pooper, but Mercury's orbit may not be really stable over the next 2 or 3 billion years, so, the few inches might get subsumed in the orbital hijinks.
Or maybe not . . . The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D
Don't worry, my friend. If this be the end, then so shall it be.  (April 30, 2015 at 6:03 pm)Alex K Wrote:(April 30, 2015 at 5:16 pm)TRJF Wrote: Humanity has changed the momentum of a planet. When we look up in 3 billion years and see that Mercury's a few inches from where it should be, we can think to ourselves: "Damn. We did that. Awesome." Don't worry, they are just as accurate as they ever were. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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