Live landing on a comet!

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Barthheart

November 12, 2014, 08:37:09 AM

LongBlade

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November 12, 2014, 08:57:00 AM
11 AM Eastern is the ETA.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Barthheart

#2
November 12, 2014, 09:47:34 AM
QuoteFirst image returned from the Philae lander from 511 million km away, showing the Rosetta orbiter just after separation!



https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/532537918557265921

Barthheart

#3
November 12, 2014, 10:04:10 AM
QuoteFarewell, Philae! Rosetta's OSIRIS camera sees the lander shortly after separation.

bayonetbrant

#4
November 12, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
just got connected to webcast after meeting - did I miss the landing or did it tank?
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Barthheart

#5
November 12, 2014, 11:12:46 AM
Confirmation of contact with the comet at 1609 GMT. Harpoon fired and retracted to haul lander to surface.

No bad for a journey that started 10 years ago!  O0

bayonetbrant

#6
November 12, 2014, 11:20:47 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on November 12, 2014, 11:12:46 AMNo bad for a journey that started 10 years ago!  O0

So, Tent-boy was what, 9?  Gus was still in High School...
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mirth

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November 12, 2014, 11:38:43 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 12, 2014, 11:20:47 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on November 12, 2014, 11:12:46 AMNo bad for a journey that started 10 years ago!  O0

So, Tent-boy was what, 9?  Gus was still in High School...

Star had yet to experience strippers who crash cars into houses...
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JasonPratt

#8
November 12, 2014, 12:20:21 PM
1.) Were there any electrical discharges on final approach like last time?

2.) Any indication yet whether this one is an actual dirty snowball instead of basically an asteroid?

There are some interesting scientific paradigm questions being thrown around recently about how comets actually operate.
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Barthheart

#9
November 12, 2014, 12:47:04 PM
Very cool graphic of the trip to the comet.....

http://sci.esa.int/where_is_rosetta/

mirth

#10
November 12, 2014, 01:00:23 PM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bayonetbrant

#11
November 12, 2014, 02:34:40 PM
Today's new Google Doodle is pretty good, too :)
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bayonetbrant

#12
November 12, 2014, 08:52:53 PM
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Gusington

#13
November 12, 2014, 09:19:05 PM
This is very cool - but I am a little set back that it was the Germans who pulled it off :/
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GDS_Starfury

#14
November 12, 2014, 09:21:43 PM
Jarhead - Yeah. You're probably right.

Gus - I use sweatpants with flannel shorts to soak up my crotch sweat.

Banzai Cat - There is no "partial credit" in grammar. Like anal sex. It's either in, or it's not.

Mirth - We learned long ago that they key isn't to outrun Star, it's to outrun Gus.

Martok - I don't know if it's possible to have an "anti-boner"...but I now have one.

Gus - Celery is vile and has no reason to exist. Like underwear on Star.

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