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Makes sense.
.....it's a Futurama reference
Hahhaha. Totally missed that. I just assumed it was a joke.
Fun fact, the kinetic energy a comet would gain from falling into the Earth's gravity well is around 60MJ/kg, more than two orders of magnitude greater than the energy which would be absorbed by it melting (0.33MJ/kg).