Amazing thing this.
No matter what happens from here on out, it's still amazing.
Rather than just a pint, the people who did this deserve a whole barrel.. each.
Nice touch with the Pink Floyd reference in the headline.
The fate of the ESA's Philae comet lander may be adding grey to boffins' hair, but the craft is still functioning – and has sent back its first panoramic selfie from Comet 67P's surface. Philae panorama Light! I need light! Click to enlarge Thanks to the space rock's low gravity, the probe bounced at least a kilometre over …
LMFAO... this is atleast the 2nd time this has happened to Europeans... same happened to Beagle2 MARS disk like non motile robot. to me its more funny than serious... they always happen to be wrong side of stage saying Tadaaaaa!!!!! but spectators are on the other side .....LMFAO!!! :) .... On serious note if Chinese are reading this... you better check ur Moon lander software too even if it has to lifted from moon and flown back to earth.. it seems U.S is into something of Industrial Espionage ... to hide its shame of failed/rolledback space program they could be secretly denying other nations to progress. Infecting their stuff/software either during their design or intercepting and bugging/patching the calculations of landers with minor numerical errors, even the lander's cameras might be bugged to capture slightly shifted image. U.S has been doing this for decades ... they did this with Pakistan's nuclear program and infected machine designs so they remain stuck why a machine is not working as it should. Next is the recent example of stuxnet.
Must admit, I'm a bit baffled as to why all that time and money has been expended on investigating the mysteries of existence by drilling into the surface of a far-off comet when drilling into the much nearer Planet mi1400 would've been so much easier. But perhaps there's nothing there to find.
Planet mi1400 was only tentatively discovered 9 years ago, Rosetta was already in space by then.
also, it's actually much further away than 67P (roughly 70AU vs 1-5AU). Plus, the scientists behind Rosetta and Philae are interested in comets specifically, as there's so many of them in the solar system, but we still don't know a lot about their make up.