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Humans Just Got Our First Close-Up Look At A Comet And It's Mind-Blowing
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| 9-8-2014
| Jessica Orwig
Posted on 09/18/2014 11:15:44 AM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:15:44 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Looks like a flashlight to me:
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:22:46 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
To: blam
That photo is staged. What it really is is a dash cam view of a motorcycle coming at you on a rainy misty night on a two lane county road.
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:25:32 AM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
To: blam
The Philae probe landing site:
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:26:21 AM PDT
by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
To: Prospero
To quote C.Brown..
I got a rock.
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:28:24 AM PDT
by
Bidimus1
To: Bidimus1
I agree, Prospero. Current status: Mind not blown...
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:30:40 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(APOD Bump)
To: Slyfox
Blimey mate......... that’s a torch
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:31:18 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: blam
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:32:11 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: Prospero
That’s really cool. Read somewhere that the comet is about 3 miles wide. Had no idea that they were that large. Still the gravity is microscopic, so the lander has to anchor itself with a spearing thing. And to make the landing more interesting, the comet is rotating.
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:35:35 AM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Psst - Don't tell ISIS about all the Mossad agents in their ranks!)
To: Slyfox
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:37:12 AM PDT
by
bubbacluck
(America 180)
To: blam
This November, Rosetta will deploy a small probe that, if successful, will land on the comet the first time we've ever made contact with a space rock (intentionally).
Who is "we"?
Define "space rock".
The US NEAR Shoemaker mission ended by intentionally landing on the tumbling asteroid it had been studying.
The Japanese Hayabusa mission was able to snag some dust off the surface of an asteroid.
I'm sure the Rosetta people learned from both NEAR Shoemaker and Hayabusa, since neither went exactly as planned.
To: jimmygrace
To: blam
Comet....it'll make your teeth turn green
Comet....it tastes like gasoline
Comet....it'll make you vomit
So get some Comet, and vomit, today.
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posted on
09/18/2014 11:59:19 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Prospero
Hmmmmmm, maybe contain “yellow metal that drives white man crazy”.
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posted on
09/18/2014 12:02:16 PM PDT
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Hillary or Warren 2016! Why? Just to have a woman for Historical Purpose?? At least pick a looker!)
To: Prospero
So much for the theory that a comet is a “dirty snowball.”
To: Paine in the Neck
Cool photoshop. Puts some feeling into human scale, seeing as how comets are “tiny” as far as astronomical objects go.
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posted on
09/18/2014 12:06:42 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: bert
Blimey mate......... thats a torchRight-O. That's what one looks like when a Bobby shines it across your bonnet through your windscreen, which may or may not be made of Perpsex.
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posted on
09/18/2014 12:10:08 PM PDT
by
Quality_Not_Quantity
(Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
To: blam
Thanks blam - cool pictures...
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posted on
09/18/2014 12:35:32 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Great causes begin as movements, becomes a business, then degenerates into a racket.Eric Hoffer)
To: blam
Thanks blam - cool pictures... I’m surprised they were expecting moisture... that’s always felt like myth...
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posted on
09/18/2014 12:36:06 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Great causes begin as movements, becomes a business, then degenerates into a racket.Eric Hoffer)
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