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s/t for this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPhUr-T6UM

I am disappointed in the appearance of that comet tbqh

were they called the snorkels, that kids cartoon, calypso music intro, the snorkels?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ALjDSsMd4

man i used to watch the hell out of that show it was not too good

Their Gargamel was The Sand Witch. Great stuff.

Who's your Gargamel, caek?

c++

http://dhavalgada.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/bjarne.png

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvVvgzYIIAAXwui.jpg:large

https://twitter.com/quark1972/status/501429546101784576/photo/1

wow i hope everyone is okay

would that be as big as the one that finished off the dinosaurs?

about the same size

the real mystery is why they were all standing in the same spot

they was all in Noah's Ark iirc

Noah's arc of descent morelike

http://secondlanguage.blogspot.com/2014/08/academic-virtues.html

i love this post with the fire of one thousand suns

I'm such a terrible citizen, I would never have guessed that landing an unmanned satellite thingy on a comet was...a thing? I mean we landed on the moon. A comet is a challenge?? This is a little disingenuous and I'm watching a news spot about it now.

It took 10 years?? What have scientists been doing all this time?

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--caek

"We" didn't land on the moon, the US government did, which has trouble starting a website now.

uh i dont see any mention of the obummer or shrillary in there ur slippin m8

insignificant puppets both

anyhow i thought comets were all flamey; just when ppl are watching, i guess

I sorta admire the dig at "has trouble starting a website now" if you're referring to healthcare.gov's failures to launch during a government shutdown over a year ago.

And I don't know what happened there, but it wasn't me.

http://i.imgur.com/ONTDWjS.png

landing on comets is hard because they are small and move on weird orbits

them being small is a problem for two reasons (1) small target! (2) low gravity which means very little room for error.

like they did as good a job as they could on this one, and it *still* bounced up ~1km

it's a big deal scientifically because planets are made out of comets so we learn about how planetary systems formed, how earth formed, how earth got its atmosphere, etc., etc.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2P1UPJCMAAVpBX.png

https://twitter.com/roseveleth/status/532538957490561024

lol europe, cool eyewear bro

http://smallpondscience.com/2014/11/12/new-requirement-for-scientists-you-cannot-be-a-sexist-pigdog/

one of the things i find most moving about space exploration is that you literally can't do it on your own. it requires a team.

and then you get dudes like that.

xxp Thanks! That all makes sense. I guess it's more that if you had asked me before yesterday, Have we ever landed anything on a comet, I probably would have been like, Idk, surely we must have by now?

Anyway. Comets!

previously we had smashed like a ton of copper into a comet for the lols, but that was recent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)

the guy fieri of science xposts

feel like the fact that europe gently landed a spacecraft on a comet, while america fired a lump of metal into a comet and named the mission after a movie is a metaphor for something

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/ITS_Impact.gif🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

first bounce took 2 hours, eh

planets are made out of comets

i need to sit down

first bounce took 2 hours, eh

Like a stolen checkbook.

Have they gendered it yet? http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/might-not-be-politically-correct-enough-you-overly-1411

I want to call it dottie

planets are made out of comets

i need to sit down

― goole, Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:55 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

electricity comes from other planets

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Yeah, I guess "Halley" was taken, after all.

one of the things i find most moving about space exploration is that you literally can't do it on your own. it requires a team.

― caek, Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:25 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like this is generally interesting as far as technology/knowledge, like its unfathomable that someone could be smart enough to figure out how to send a lil dude through space for ten years and land on this guy so far away, but really no one is that smart

planets are made out of comets

i need to sit down

― goole, Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:55 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus was an alien

Planets are made out of comets and comets are made out of stars

Yeah I mean it's kind of a trivial statement that one person can't physically build a space mission, like one person can't build a cathedral.

But yeah more interesting is the fact that one person cannot conceive a space mission or hold it in their head.

Systems thinking

Jesus was an alien though it's true

only 90s kids will understand