"Sixty-five million years ago, one of these things took out the dinosaurs," said Faulkes Telescope director Paul Roche ... "we're going to get our own back".
[Via BBC News | Science/Nature | Comet crash clues for Europe]
*POW!* - the fightback against the comet terror threat begins here! We'll show them that they can't expect to wipe out 85% of the carbon-based species on a planet and get away with it. 65 million years may seem like a long time to hold a grudge, but they've had this coming. We warned them - even crashed a few probes into Mars to show them we mean business. But yesterday we took the fight right to the enemy, and we were not found wanting. They'll think twice before messing with a DNA-based lifeform again.
For more on the ongoing battle against the interstellar snowball menace, refer to Nasa's Deep Impact site.