Romeo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 When will we see the first pics? Any idea? First picture from the comet just in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEJANGO Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 First picture from the comet just in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 What an achievement I mean to be able to land a machine on a comet traveling at over 30,000 mph is just staggering, history has been made. Looking forward to the pics it will send back now not to mention the results of the experiments it will be carrying out. Up to 135,000 KPH according to this: (loads of good info here BTW) http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Frequently_asked_questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Sometimes the human race is fucking horrible, sometimes it's fucking brilliant. Enjoy if before the "spend the money on hospitals" brigade turn up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 When will we see the first pics? Any idea? Should be first one before 5pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustOneCornetto Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Forget Insterstellar this is so much more exciting. 'Hollywood is good, Rosetta is better' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 A guy just came on to say the lander might not be anchored, but was cut off mid flow. Could be another hour for first photo from the comet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 CNN just confirmed it has landed. CNBC also having input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 CNN just confirmed it has landed. CNBC also having input. It definitely landed. Whether or not it bounced off again we don't yet know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Man Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 They should call it Ugg instead of 67P: Fake. That is quite clearly a farmer's boot after a day in a muddy field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 First picture just in: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Ppyl9IUAEOB-5.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForzaDundee Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 "It's to find answers to very fundamental questions about the history of our own planet, how it evolved. The overall costs were in the order of 1.4 billion euros. If you divide it by the 20 years that the development and the mission has cost, it's a matter of cents per European citizen per year... contributing to this new knowledge that we get about the evolution of our own planet and the fundamental question: if life really emerged on Earth, or if it might have been brought to Earth by such comets many billions of years in the past." Why the f**k do we not have hundreds of these projects on the go. Our government spend billions on Trident when we could be fully funding projects like this to support jobs and eventual stimulate a private-sector space industry in this country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 CNN just confirmed it has landed. CNBC also having input. And Fox News are busy building a huge wicker man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Apparently this is from lander approaching the comet. Not from Rosetta team though: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Why the f**k do we not have hundreds of these projects on the go. Our government spend billions on Trident when we could be fully funding projects like this to support jobs and eventual stimulate a private-sector space industry in this country. We should be sending space craft to distant planets in the search for life. Unfortunately though, the leaders of the world would rather pay to harbour weapons of mass destruction that destroy life than to actually discover life itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 When will we see the first pics? Any idea?The burd with the specs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 "It's to find answers to very fundamental questions about the history of our own planet, how it evolved. The overall costs were in the order of 1.4 billion euros. If you divide it by the 20 years that the development and the mission has cost, it's a matter of cents per European citizen per year... contributing to this new knowledge that we get about the evolution of our own planet and the fundamental question: if life really emerged on Earth, or if it might have been brought to Earth by such comets many billions of years in the past." Why the f**k do we not have hundreds of these projects on the go. Our government spend billions on Trident when we could be fully funding projects like this to support jobs and eventual stimulate a private-sector space industry in this country. Because humanity is a bag of c***s who'd rather spend trillions on killing each other in chillingly terrifying ways and on appallingly expensive dick measuring contests not to mention ruthless ways to rape the planet of it's resources just to have a few extra millions they don't need, all the while killing the planet in an exercise that's so astonishingly selfish, short sighted and stupid that it's a wonder we all don't just shoot ourselves in the dick or John McVeigh is a tit with a blunderbluss every fucking day and thrash around in appalling agony and dreadful futility hoping that the next shot will end this shameful association with said c***s, sort of like Quantum Leap but replacing the leaping with a blunderbuss to the genitals with the mission being the sweet relief of death. But with no Al obviously. But then we see incredible achievements like Rosetta landing and the thought that there is hope flickers tantalisingly across your brain, teasing you with the promise of a better way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Success. This is the sort of thing humanity can achieve if the will is there. Superb stuff. Not happy with basking in humankind's amazement, BBC thought they'd even it out by also reporting the man who's been stuck in a wall for 3 days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptie Posted November 12, 2014 Author Share Posted November 12, 2014 The general media finally cottoning on something exciting is going on out THERE FANTASTIC achievement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 BBC: "Well here we are, here is the image which we've just received within the last few seconds"... Oh, wait, it's the one which welshbairn posted up on P&B 20 mins ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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