Europe's Rosetta Spacecraft Makes Historic Arrival at Comet

www.space.com ^ | August 06, 2014 06:00am ET | By Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer

[NicknamedBob]

Dang it! I thought Jim Kirk took care of that thing!

Paging Fred Saberhagen.

[Darksheare]

That’s what everyone was told.
/But in reality, he took the hubcaps and sold it to a comet chop shop.
It escaped, and is now looking for him.

[NicknamedBob]

Good luck chopping Neutronium.

I could believe that if it were made of scrith.

[MaxMax]

They will catch up. May take a week or two. And Coast to Coast hasn’t announced it yet, soo

[MaxMax]

You found the face.. Here we go!

[bert]

outstanding work guys........ tremendous feat of astrophysics and solid engineering

[bert]

Those of us with more gravity than others are called chick magnets

[NicknamedBob]

I used to have little black-and-white puppy dog magnets.

[Swordmaker]

Science isn’t always exciting to the outside observer. Sometimes it’s just boring as hell........................

Oh, I know . . . but it seemed as if they went out of their way to make it boring as hell. But SpongeBob? Really? Surely they could have had a skilled animator do better.

[Conspiracy Guy]

At least you got that.

[Red Badger]

Science cannot even define gravity. They can tell you what it does. They can tell you how much there is. They can tell you how to measure its effects and compensate for or use it effectively. But they cannot tell you exactly what it is. They call it the bending or depression of the fabric of space-time, analogous to a billiard ball on a rubber sheet.

Mass has it. The larger the mass, the more gravity it has. But they cannot tell you exactly how it does what it does.

Oh, there are quantum physicists and string theorists that talk of quarks and strings and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings, but they never attempt to actually define gravity................

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger and Darksheare for the topic and pings, extra to APoD.

[Darksheare]

Welcome!

I still say it resembles a beat up rubber ducky..
o_O

[HKMk23]

SPACE DUCK??

I want audio.

...one little duck with the feather on his back
he led the others with a QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!

[You’re welcome for the earworm.]

[no-to-illegals]

It’s a Giant Barbell flung out into space by a Giant?

[Red Badger]

New York or San Francisco Giant?....................

[no-to-illegals]

Best guess (here) is hundreds of millions of years ago it (the comet) came from God or out of Detroit. Now it could have happened only six thousand years ago and to tell the truth ... I do not know.

[moose07]

That’s just Quakers....

[moose07]

Quackers

[tet68]

I used to have little black-and-white puppy dog magnets.

What did you do with all the little black and white
puppies you collected?