Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps

astroengine (1577233) writes "In the final hours, Philae's science team hurried to squeeze as much science out of the small lander as possible. But the deep sleep was inevitable, Rosetta's lander has slipped into hibernation after running its batteries dry. This may be the end of Philae's short and trailblazing mission on the surface of Comet 67P, but a huge amount of data — including data from a drilling operation that, apparently, was carried out despite concerns that Philae wasn't positioned correctly — was streamed to Rosetta mission control. "Prior to falling silent, the lander was able to transmit all science data gathered during the First Science Sequence," said Stephan Ulamec, Philae Lander Manager. "This machine performed magnificently under tough conditions, and we can be fully proud of the incredible scientific success Philae has delivered.""

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[PopeRatzo]

He's a scientist with a doctorate in physics.

That and $2 gets you a bus ride.

He might be a little bit of an attention whore too. Dude's got full-sleeve tattoos on both arms. Probably a Prince Albert on his junk. He thinks rules don't apply to him. On his big day in the media he decides to make it all about himself.

You ever see pictures of the guys who landed a team of astronauts on the moon almost half a century ago? They all wore white shirts and ties and you could barely tell them apart. Because they weren't hipsters narcissists. It was about TEAM, not getting 15 minutes of TMZ fame and making your colleagues look bad. .

By the way, women have been tweeting some pretty funny images of equivalent pictures of scantily-dressed and over-sexualized men that if those were worn by female scientists would have had some of you shitting all over the floor in fury. They're about the same as this now-famous pic of what it would look like if male characters' costumes for video games were designed the same way as women characters'.

Here you go: It's sort of NSFW, in the same way Euro-rocket hipster douchebag's shirt was NSFW: https://i.imgur.com/ofjksF0.jp...