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Unmanned spacecraft successfully lands on comet (video)
FoxNews.com ^ | 11-12-2014 | FoxNews.com

Posted on 11/12/2014 8:29:47 AM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at video.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: churyumovgerasimenko; comet; comet67p; cometprobe; cometspaceprobe; philae; rosetta; spaceprobe
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

The Grinch lives up there. I saw the cartoon.


21 posted on 11/12/2014 9:18:31 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Red Badger

Where’s the Martians and the American Flag?


22 posted on 11/12/2014 9:23:19 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

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


23 posted on 11/12/2014 9:27:33 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: cll

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.


24 posted on 11/12/2014 9:32:01 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: marron
put some kind of telemetry and communications package on any comets that we can get to

Great idea!

25 posted on 11/12/2014 9:35:55 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: dragnet2

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


26 posted on 11/12/2014 9:44:25 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: marron

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


27 posted on 11/12/2014 9:47:57 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: servo1969

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)


28 posted on 11/12/2014 9:59:29 AM PST by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: servo1969; All

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


29 posted on 11/12/2014 10:38:20 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Army Air Corps

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...


30 posted on 11/12/2014 10:40:50 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Paladin2; All

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...


31 posted on 11/12/2014 10:41:04 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: Rio

Well, that will make Mohammedans feel bad.


32 posted on 11/12/2014 10:46:32 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: servo1969

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


33 posted on 11/12/2014 10:54:53 AM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Red Badger; a fool in paradise

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


34 posted on 11/12/2014 11:06:16 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Red Badger
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 ....
35 posted on 11/12/2014 11:07:56 AM PST by JeepRubicon
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To: Age of Reason
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)
36 posted on 11/12/2014 11:07:56 AM PST by JeepRubicon
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To: servo1969

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.


37 posted on 11/12/2014 11:18:56 AM PST by kidd
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To: kidd

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


38 posted on 11/12/2014 11:21:50 AM PST by kidd
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To: stevie_d_64
Heck, I used to get regular rides on The Comet 50 years ago.


39 posted on 11/12/2014 11:48:55 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: marron

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


40 posted on 11/12/2014 11:51:54 AM PST by christx30 (Freedom above all.)
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