Posted on 11/12/2014 8:29:47 AM PST by servo1969
BRILLIANT!!
Too bad America won’t be the ones doing it...
“Did you see where the European Space Agency has landed an unmanned vehicle on a streaking comet? That is pretty cool. Man, oh, man. It made me remember when we used to have a space program in this country. It made me remember when we used to do stuff like that.”
—Rush Limbaugh
I wonder if there was sufficient momentum exchanged or mass added to change measurably the comet’s orbit. Given the role of comets as omens, who knows what we have wrought?
I was just thinking that! That this one tiny bump redirects the whole thing in a direction that might be very unlucky for us.
But it would take far more to alter the trajectory. This is more like hitting a fastball with a mosquito.
That mosquito is bound to tweak a trajectory of millions of miles.
We’re doomed.
Ya, but look at what we do have, we have Ebola, millions entering illegally gang banging our entire system, lawless borders, endless chain immigration, dumbed down government schools, a declining dollar, bigger government, products from Communist China and on and on....
Looken sharp America!
The ESA doesn’t know that NASA already landed on an asteroid back in 2001: http://science.nasa.gov/missions/near/
I only care how this improves the lot of Islam.
No, ShJ-L would go before the cameras & grouse about all the poor minority children who could have been fed with what is being spent on the space program.
If this violates so much as one passage in the Hadith, then the ESA is in trouble. ;-)
It landed when the Evil Bush was president*; therefore, that doesn’t count.
*Yes, it was launched during the reign of the Horndog in Chief, but that only makes the launch acceptable.
I agree. They should be extraordinarily proud! The ESA have applauded NASA’s achievements for decades. Now they deserve to pop the cork.
Their tiny space probe traveled 300 million miles and landed on one of the oldest known objects in our solar system, a comet going 34.000 mph!
The high-resolution pictures of this alien thing blew me away.
They had to spend billions sending a probe to a comet to find microscopic life on a rock?
I can find microscopic life on a rock in my garden.
And why would finding microscopic life on a comet mean there's no god any more than finding microscopic life on a rock in my garden would mean there's no god?
Though it might negate the gods of geo-centric religions.
So? My wastepaper basket is moving around the sun at 65,00 mph, and I just hit with a crumpled ball of paper.
The high-resolution pictures of this alien thing blew me away.
Seen one rock, seen them all.
up to you
I'm pretty sure Near/Shoemaker invaded Eros in February 2001....they even put on a fireworks display for the hypothetical inhabitants when a thruster glitch burned up all the fuel in a tumbling pirouette .
I guess the ESA doesn't want to acknowledge it right just at the moment...
To be fair, Tyson has a PhD in astrophysics, was appointed by George W. Bush to two different commissions on space exploration and the aerospace industry, and is currently the director of the Hayden Planetarium.
So he’s not a complete media creation, is what I’m saying.
Further update, contact now reestablished and lander reported ‘stable’ despite landing bounce. First image from surface now available.
Why can’t we see video of it landing?
That too...Good thing she keeps reminding us about how she is dumber than a bag of hammers quite often...
It is almost a relief...
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