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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.

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

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


41 posted on 11/12/2014 12:02:04 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote fraud solution: Stake, Rope, Sugar and Bullet Ants.)
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To: servo1969

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?


42 posted on 11/12/2014 12:16:40 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: rightwingcrazy

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.


43 posted on 11/12/2014 12:21:37 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

That mosquito is bound to tweak a trajectory of millions of miles.

We’re doomed.


44 posted on 11/12/2014 12:23:18 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: RandallFlagg
BRILLIANT!! Too bad America won’t be the ones doing it...

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!

45 posted on 11/12/2014 12:23:28 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Rio

The ESA doesn’t know that NASA already landed on an asteroid back in 2001: http://science.nasa.gov/missions/near/


46 posted on 11/12/2014 12:33:31 PM PST by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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To: Army Air Corps

I only care how this improves the lot of Islam.


47 posted on 11/12/2014 12:36:06 PM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: stevie_d_64

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.


48 posted on 11/12/2014 12:39:49 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: BlueStateRightist

If this violates so much as one passage in the Hadith, then the ESA is in trouble. ;-)


49 posted on 11/12/2014 12:46:29 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Southack

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.


50 posted on 11/12/2014 1:09:15 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Rio

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.


51 posted on 11/12/2014 1:13:59 PM PST by floralamiss (O Lord, may I die thru love of your love, who were graciously pleased to die thru love of my love.)
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To: JeepRubicon
Microscopic life will be announced in days, god is dead they'll say.

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.

52 posted on 11/12/2014 4:28:18 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: floralamiss
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!

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.

53 posted on 11/12/2014 4:32:35 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason

up to you


54 posted on 11/12/2014 5:15:56 PM PST by floralamiss (O Lord, may I die thru love of your love, who were graciously pleased to die thru love of my love.)
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To: servo1969

55 posted on 11/12/2014 5:59:24 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: Southack
The ESA doesn’t know that NASA already landed on an asteroid

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...

56 posted on 11/12/2014 11:35:33 PM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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To: VanDeKoik

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.


57 posted on 11/13/2014 2:14:15 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst.)
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To: servo1969

Further update, contact now reestablished and lander reported ‘stable’ despite landing bounce. First image from surface now available.


58 posted on 11/13/2014 3:32:20 AM PST by Winniesboy
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To: servo1969

Why can’t we see video of it landing?


59 posted on 11/13/2014 9:29:43 AM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: elcid1970

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...


60 posted on 11/16/2014 6:47:30 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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