First Comet Landing In Human History

  On 11/12/2014 at 5:40 PM, skytree said:

 

  On 11/12/2014 at 5:28 PM, jasondonervan said:

Watching BBC livestream, so many scientist types losing their shit right now!

 

Bless 'em, gotta respect their mad skills for making it happen.

Indeed. Had a rather misanthropic hermetic friend from Northern Cali stop by last night, and he was complaining about how this is a total misallocation of resources. I told him the budget was one tiny fraction of what's spent on military bullshit, and that we have the capacity to both care for the planet and explore beyond its bounds, not to mention that missions like this help us appreciate how absolutely marvelous and majestic the entire cosmos is and our ability to accomplish miracles, including here on our beautiful pale blue dot. We need some incredible teleological attractors like this to help us save the planet we're already on, IMO.

Money damn well spent.

Science. Trust bruv. Trust.

 

not least of which, is to give these sexless nerds orgasms in waves. the livestream is a giant nerdgasm. Freckled bodies convulsing in pure joy & bodily fluids flying everywhere..

  On 11/12/2014 at 5:40 PM, skytree said:

 

Money damn well spent.

Science. Trust bruv. Trust.

Science is lush, that's all there is to it.

First pictures expected in an hour's time...

did they just say the harpoons didn't deploy correctly? sounds worrying ..

  On 11/12/2014 at 5:47 PM, data said:

did they just say the harpoons didn't deploy correctly? sounds worrying ..

Esa pls

A proud day, shit like this makes me feel like we're living in the future. was glued to the live stream. Now for some juicy science, bitch!

watch it kick up a cloud of dust that won't settle for 40 years

:High-fives the fuck out of ESA:

Incoming!

HOLY SHIT THEY DID IT

moments before touchdown:

http://i.giflike.com/T2L8pnb

https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/sets/72157638315605535/

Hoping it didn't bounce off into space after the harpoons did not fire - keeping a close eye on the feed.

(Edit: pic was from a model, disregard)

"Maybe we didn't just land once. We landed twice!"
/u/Gaviero

Data 'could be interpreted' as the lander lifted off and started to turn itself.
/u/Gaviero

Some data does indicate a small re-bounce.
/u/J4k0b42

ESA still does not fully understand what happened after touchdown.
/u/Jonathan_DB

missed it

I feel kind of sad of that they didn't release harpoons properly, just this lonely probe land on that ice comet...

command: release the harpoons

....no answer

still tripping on those space sounds. awesome stuff!

so now what

yes yes yes yes

[youtubehd]FJrUnzLsmZk[/youtubehd]

Man...was just daydreaming of how much instantaneous/faster-than-light communications would revolutionize robotic space exploration...one day maybe.

that's a whole lot of cool wallpapers

  On 11/12/2014 at 11:03 PM, skytree said:

Man...was just daydreaming of how much instantaneous/faster-than-light communications would revolutionize robotic space exploration...one day maybe.

quantum entanglement is the only possibility and that ain't looking good.

  On 11/12/2014 at 9:55 PM, phling said:

so now what

because the quantum is entangled, yes?

"Now that I’m safely on the ground, here is what my new home #67P looks like from where I am."

@Philae2014