Unmanned spacecraft successfully lands on comet (video)

FoxNews.com ^ | 11-12-2014 | FoxNews.com

[servo1969]

BREAKING NEWS: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S TINY PHILAE LANDER (inset within artist's conception) makes history, landing on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko billions of miles away and traveling at speeds of up to 84,000 mph.

[right way right]

The Grinch lives up there. I saw the cartoon.

[Paladin2]

Where’s the Martians and the American Flag?

[Verginius Rufus]

So much for the notion that a comet is a “dirty snowball.”

[VanDeKoik]

He is a total media creation that thinks he’s the greatest scientific mind of the century yet he has no achievements to his name, other than writing snarky critiques of movies that dont display some trite aspect of astronomy correctly.

[MUDDOG]

put some kind of telemetry and communications package on any comets that we can get to

Great idea!

[Army Air Corps]

Yeah, we didn’t launch any probes during those years...

[bert]

Well, doesn’t this landing vehicle do just that?

[Rio]

The head of the European Space Agency underlined Europe’s pride in having achieved a unique first ahead of its U.S. counterpart NASA.

“We are the first to have done that, and that will stay forever,” said ESA director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain.

(MSN.com)

[stevie_d_64]

“One small step for islam, one giant leap for muslim-kind.”

[dragnet2]

The point is the Shuttle program was sucking up hundreds of millions, huge resources, personnel and everything else as Shuttle missions went around and around in circles, thousands of times...

[stevie_d_64]

We might need to make sure Shiela Jackson-Lee gets in front of the cameras there in the mission control and ask to see if they can get a picture of the American flag Neil Armstrong (and the other guy’s name she can’t remember) planted when they visited a while back...

[Army Air Corps]

Well, that will make Mohammedans feel bad.

[Age of Reason]

So what did it find up there, other than another rock?

[GeronL]

looks like a set or something from an old sci-fi b-movie

[JeepRubicon]

Did you notice that you can see stars in the background on this the photo above? That proves man never meant to the moon as none of the moon photo's have stars in the backgound, thus the Space "Shuttle". All we could ever do was orbit. Do you really think we built a fragile rocket with less brain power than 1/5 of the original IBM PC, made it to the moon where yet another ship detached from the main ship, landed on the moon, then later launched and re-docked with the mother ship, made it back to the earth all well and good, perfectly the first time?

Uh huh, right ....

[JeepRubicon]

So what did it find up there, other than another rock?

Brilliant Question, here are the findings, not joking:

1) Microscopic life will be announced in days, god is dead they'll say.
2) Evidence of Global Warming (don't ask me how they connect it, but they will)

[kidd]

Live Stream report:

The lander landed, but the harpoon didn’t fire. Landing gear worked perfectly and absorbed the force of impact.

Still trying to figure out what is going on. Some data indicates that the lander may have bounced off the comet.

May have landed twice on the comet.

Radio link is gone for the time being, as expected. Will re-establish contact tomorrow morning.

[kidd]

Media update tomorrrow at 1400 European (9am eastern?)

[Paladin2]

Heck, I used to get regular rides on The Comet 50 years ago.

[christx30]

Like tagging animals with GPS so we can find out their migration patterns. I like it. Get as many of them as we can.