Kinda like the Obama presidency.
This stuff is hard.
The orbiter is still there and will likely provide the best science anyway.
Morgan Renberg. The generation with the weird names is coming of age.
Here’s the giveaway to the whole article:
“My dad and I were sitting in the living room of my childhood home, listening to NPR.”
I stopped right there since I'm out of barf bags at the moment.
I was thirteen years old when the Challenger exploded. Space exploration was very much an interest of mine and I remember exactly where I was when it happened.
At school in a nearly empty room, planned as the future library, with a small select group of other students watching the launch live.
The explosion was sad. Sad for the astronauts and sad for the set-back of the manned space program. We were all shunted back to our classes minutes after this explosion. We were not offered counseling or anything like kids are these days when they did’t win the top 9 ribbons in a trivial contest.
Philae, like other missions, tell us a lot. Failures are very educational. We learn from them and do better next time. We shouldn’t waste time crying about exploded unmanned objects, we should figure out the problem and design it better for next time.
There is no room for temper tantrums in science and in space nobody can hear you whine like an entitled trust-fund brat who just found out his ski vacation in Aspen is off because the snow is too thin.
Philae is still there, flying along with the comet and returning images and will probably be able to do some science too. There was a bit of a set-back but that doesn’t mean we cannot learn from it.
Although emotionally it makes me want to reach out and ‘touch’ the face of Morgan.
Of course a liberal would be equate loss of technological success (Philae) with loss of human life (Challenger).
Young man, there’s no need to feel down.
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.
And just go there, to the Y.M.C.A.
I’m sure they can help you today.
- Dr. Frankenstien
Yet another failure of solar power. Can’t believe the geniuses that built and sent this thing forgot about “shade”. Maybe something besides batteries and solar power should have been used, like a nano-nuke plant or the like.
Not to side-jack the topic, but here’s another NPR-type who anthromorphizes and sympathizes with the plight of machines, but more than likely relegates fetal “tissue mass” to the garbage bin…
Talk about redefining the cost of doing nothing...