So we are going to tail off this thread with bad puns?
Comet ISON is thought by scientists to be a dirty snowball, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. ISON and all comets, like asteroids, are probably mostly just rock with very little ice.
When the world accepts this it will be a better place. Unfortunately, not likely to happen any time soon.
well, you know... to GGI "overwhelming evidence" and "naked assertion" basically mean the same thing.