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Saturday is it!!!
It was a heckuva ride (10 Years, 4 billion miles) tho!!
Just missed it by a kilometer,, or we could have feasted for years on this baby.. wherever its headed.. hopefully, not at Earth. ;-]
Please, No Diehard or Duracell jokes!!
Bill Withers sang about this situation.
“Ain’t No Sunshine”
Bounced 1km and came back down?
For some reason I find that interesting.
Even a couple of relative small, partly elastic collisions can be a problem.
Song dedication to Philae.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqQL0J_Vr0
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love lyrics (excerpt)
It’s gettin’ near dawn
When lights close their tired eyes
I’ll soon be with you my love
To give you my dawn surprise
I’ll be with you darling soon
I’ll be with you when the stars start falling
I’ve been waiting so long to be where I’m going
In the sunshine of your love
/johnny
They should have used an atomic battery like the one invented a hundred years ago by Henry Moseley. Photocell deposited on two glass plates, radioactive gas trapped between the plates. Moseley’s original batteries have been putting out a continuous electric current since 1912.
And this was hailed as evidence of European space superiority just yesterday. This is not much different from the deliberate crash of a probe unto another comet not long ago.
Just getting it there and being able to snap a few pictures is a remarkable achievement, but it is not a giant leap for humanity.
Well then, ESA better fire those harpoons and not worry about further bouncing, cuz it don’t matter anymore.
Last chance to get into the sunshine for life extension.
PICTURES FROM THE COMET. BUT WHERE'S THE KABOOOM.
