Rosetta spots potholes IN SPAAACE: Someone call the galactic council The Rosetta probe, currently in orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has spotted what appear to be massive sinkholes on the comet's surface that are thought to be caused by the cosmic snowball melting in the Sun's rays. Comet sinkhole map The comet's holier than Pope Francis (click to enlarge) The holes, some of …
Last time I called them they refused to even attempt to put me through to the department I wanted to speak to, when I questioned why they hung up on me.
They seem to have plenty of money to spend on manpower and tarmac to build speed humps which are outside the permitted dimensions (AKA illegal) but not enough blokes with tarmac to fill in the holes in the road that have developed due to their lack of maintenance.
A bit of a personal rant I know, sorry...
Yes, mate: I thoroughly understand how this is the right forum for a whinge about potholes.
There is a lump of rock that is so far away from here that it almost doesn't matter where "here" is. Despite that a mob from somewhere called the US (who haven't heard of Ealing - for shame) decided to send a little robotty thing to it. How the fuck it got there in one piece and still works, I'm not sure - good skills. The fact that they have any idea where it is and can get it to do stuff is (almost) beyond belief.
Here in Somerset, the roads are complete shite and you're correct: the council should pull their finger out and sort it.
The Nature abstract mentions an interesting idea:
"The size and spatial distribution of pits imply that large heterogeneities exist in the physical, structural or compositional properties of the first few hundred metres below the current nucleus surface."
So maybe there ARE Clanger tunnels running thru it!
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Interesting but I'm pretty sure we have the capability of sticking a deep space probe into a tube and navigate the tube into one of these holes... send a probe out to the edge of the comets route and launch the probe out with an ion engine....
Or stick a load of solar powered signal repeaters in a tube and as the comet shoots off to the edge of the galaxy deploy them to build up a really big deep space relay network/monitoring points/ cameras etc?
I'm pretty sure we have the capability of sticking a deep space probe into a tube and navigate the tube into one of these holes...
I remember the training simulator for that mission (codenamed "Scramble"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adynqfYsDus
Comets are meteors. Evidence of "water" is detected as hydroxyls, not H2o. Hydroxyls. Hydroxyls are found in minerals and can be released by heat. Heat can be produced by electric discharge. A comet's tail is a plasma sheath. 99.9% of matter in the Universe is in the plasma state. A match flame is a plasma. What we call galactic or nebular "filaments" are very large scale Birkland currents. Space is not empty. It is alive with electro-magnetism. Contemporary astronomy is alive with error. End of transmission.
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