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Rosetta's Philae Probe To Land On Comet Tomorrow
An anonymous reader writes: After more than 10 years travelling, the Rosetta mission will take its next, momentous step by landing the Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko tomorrow. How f!@#$%ing cool is that?! Follow the landing live using the webcast, blog, or Twitter feed. (Keep in mind there's a 28-minute delay due to the time it takes the radio signals to reach Earth). Here's the scheduling info: "For the primary landing scenario, targeting Site J, Rosetta will release Philae at 08:35 GMT/09:35 CET at a distance of 22.5 km from the center of the comet, landing about seven hours later. The one-way signal travel time between Rosetta and Earth on 12 November is 28 minutes 20 seconds, meaning that confirmation of the landing will arrive at Earth ground stations at around 16:00 GMT/17:00 CET. If a decision is made to use the backup Site C, separation will occur at 13:04 GMT/14:04 CET, 12.5 km from the center of the comet. Landing will occur about four hours later, with confirmation on Earth at around 17:30 GMT/18:30 CET. The timings are subject to uncertainties of several minutes."
And space is too big... aint no one got time to wait 30minutes just for 1 leg of the transmission
They just got their first of four GO/NOGOs for launch from flight dynamics. Looking good!
Could somebody explain this to me? It's some new meme or something?
I hear that the "Dear Leader" in North Korea is concerned that the prestige of North Korea may be slipping due to so many other countries sending probes to the moon, Mars, comets, and many other places while North Korea has so far not been able to join in given the poor showing of their rocket techology. His solution to this is to sends a probe to an easier target, the sun. His scientists commended him on his clever thinking since the gravity well of the sun would help overcome some of the deficiencies in North Korea's rockets. But they were forced to also inform him that although the goal of sending a probe to the sun was doable, they would not be able to match the feats of other nations by actually landing the probe on the sun due to the intense heat. The "Dear Leader" replied he had though of that and told them to simply land at night.
Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again ...
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
One of the powers that actual adults have is to be able to not swear and express themselves in other fashions. You up to that?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Maybe his phone's ducking autocorrect won't let him.
I can't find a naughty word that fits with 5 hidden characters. Which one is it? It's one of:
facetting factoring fallowing faltering famishing farrowing fastening fathering fathoming fatiguing fattening featuring ferreting festering fettering fidgeting filleting filliping filtering finagling financing finessing fingering finishing flambeing flaunting flavoring fledgling flinching flouncing flowering flurrying focussing following fomenting foregoing foresting forgiving forsaking fostering foundling frazzling freckling frighting frizzling funneling furrowing
Nice vile condescending attitude you have going there jackass.
I guess there is no real objective measure of what constitutes the peak of human achievement in space. But this has to be up there with the best of them. Go you good thing!
I'm sure the irony eludes you.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
From the pictures already published from this mission, the dirty snowball theory is demonstrably false. And the double-lobed form means the comet wasn't formed via accretion.
Apparently the anonymous summary author isn't up to it. He's trying to use the profanity without actually saying the word. While I agree with you, cold fjord, as an adult I feel people should use that ability to express themselves and either say the word or not. This pussyfooting* around is silly.
*Uh-oh! Now I've done it!
fellating?
Let's see if the lander has an electrical anomaly on the way down. Should be interesting.
https://www.thunderbolts.info/...
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
Animated gif of the probe's path, from launch to rendezvous.
Bingo!
As a middle-aged adult(ish) geek, I think it is FUCKING cool ! Screwing around in Low-Earth Orbit is one thing. Going out and landing on a comet is awesome. Are you old enough to remember which TV you were glued to during the first manned landing on the moon? This isn't that cool, but it is damn cool nevertheless.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST
One of the powers that actual adults have is to be able to invent new and particularly offense swear words to tweak puritan-types.
Somehow pretend 'swearing' is more adult?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
I want to disagree. I mean yeah, Man on the Moon. In any universe, that is going to be cool. But that appears easy compared to Rosetta.
10 years to get there, circling through the solar system how many times? Then catching a comet with just about no gravity, and slowing down to pace it. Even 'orbiting' it a few times, which is really just firing your rockets to go in a circle.
And then landing? The Moon is a freakin' parking lot with stripes compared to that comet. Plus, having an astronaut came in handy when what's his name had to manually land with seconds to go.
Yes, I remember. But I was a kid, and I guess I figured they did that shit all the time. I didn't appreciate anything. Now, in hindsight, I know different, and appreciate (somewhat) what they did during Apollo. But this seems harder than that, and thus, cooler.
One of the powers that actual adults have is to spell rite.
When you want to say "fucking" it's spelt F U C K I N G.
Oh, by the way it's an ESA mission.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Thanks, I'm enjoying the irony.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
One of the other powers that actual adults have is the intelligence that one word has no more ability to injure us than any other, and allow people to swear all they like, because it does us no harm.
One of the powers that actual adults have is to be able to invent new and particularly offense swear words to tweak puritan-types.
One of the powers that actual adults have is the ability to communicate in a civilized manner without trying to tweak anyone or thinking they're sticking it to "the man" by attempting to be cool or edgy.
Unless we're abandoning the whole concept of trying to live in a civilized society except when it comes to the stopping of war which is routinely promulgated on here.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm curious, in your travels do you ever meet any humans?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I'll probably be flamed for this, but saying words can't hurt you is utter crap. It's possible to have an attitude that prevents certain comments from hurting you, but that simply means you have no emotional investment in the person using the words.
Words can, and do, hurt. Sometimes to the point where physical injury would've been a blessing relative to the damage the words caused.
The Bible says it best. What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Apparently not. Otherwise, he'd know that lots of people are oversensitive.
I'll probably be flamed for this, but saying words can't hurt you is utter crap.
Words can't cause physical injury. Offense is also taken, not given. By dwelling over the words of others, you cause intangible emotional damage to yourself. It's seems to be hard for almost everyone to overcome the desire to inflict emotional damage upon oneself, but nonetheless, people should strive to do so, rather than having pity parties.
But really, this isn't about attacking others, but about certain words arbitrarily being deemed 'bad.' Then, a lot of these people treat these words as if they don't just offend *them*, but that they're magically objectively bad, even if others aren't offended by them. And then, somewhere down the line, the government gets involved because of oversensitive, unprincipled whiners saying that things they don't like should be banned, and we end up with unconstitutional nonsense like FCC censorship.
And there is a word for that aren't "oversensitive": sociopaths.
I see you're practiced at avoiding detection.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
People that aren't offended by certain words society arbitrarily deems bad: Sociopaths. You heard it here, folks. Make sure you're offended by everything cold fjord is offended by, and make sure you like what he likes, and dislike what he dislikes. If you can't manage that, make sure to not say anything that could offend anyone, because then you'll offend our dear PC overlords. If you fail to do this, you're sure to be diagnosed with psychological issues over the Internet.
Intelligent people also have the ability to act intelligently and get over irrational fears of certain words arbitrarily deemed to be bad. This usually involves questioning society's values. I guess that would make many people who insist that any word they don't like is "uncivilized" (a completely subjective term) rather irrational. Some words are just objectively bad and uncivilized. The magical opinion fairy decided it.
Unless we're abandoning the whole concept of trying to live in a civilized society except when it comes to the stopping of war which is routinely promulgated on here.
You know, you've got a point there. If someone says a word that you don't like, they're objectively uncivilized and want all of civilization to come crashing down.
Ooooh, are you one of those "over sensitive" people? Sure looks like it.
Why don't you come out into the open. "Bob" right?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
the landing will awake the violent aliens sleeping in the core and we all are going to die... ( 28 minutes later )
Wait a second - you're telling me that a probe has been traveling for years on end and will be precisely placed on an object moving several thousands of miles per hour, yet no one knows, even within a rough guesstimate falling within a minute or two, when a signal from the same probe confirming the landing will first arrive?
Maybe the probe delivery engineers should take over for the communications team...
How will this landing impact the trajectory and mass of the asteroid? Will it end up in my backyard ?
Woosh.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Philae has separated from Rosetta, and is now sailing at 18 cm/s toward the comet. One of its rocket engines, on top of Philae, does not work. This engine is intended to push Philae against the comet; we now face the possiblity that Philae gently "bounces back" into space, because of the comet's very low gravity. Tension rising here.
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
here
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
The link to the webcast did not have any sound for me, but I found another official one that works: http://rosetta.esa.int/
The irony that actual adults are expected to not proudly wear vile condescending attitudes and otherwise act like jackasses?
Chuuch. Preach. Tabernacle.
I know civilizations where it is ok to rape and then "honor kill" one's sister. Definitions of "civilized" vary, I reject yours also.
Philae has landed. ESA did it: first landing ever on a comet !! Philae's "tweet"
Religous speak to God. Insane are spoken to by God. When all shut up, one can finally hear Shostakovich in peace
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can really hurt me".
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley