Astro-Porn of the Day: Philae lands on a comet!

[mckitterick]

First off, apologies for posting here so seldom. Most of my blogs appear first on Tumblr (mckitterick.tumblr.com), because it's so much faster to post stuff there, and it so easily cross-blogs to my Facebook and my Twitter accounts. LJ and DW are just SO SLOW to use.... If you're on Tumblr and/or Twitter, please follow me there and I'll do the same

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[saffronhare]

In the photos, it looks so still. Easy to forget how quickly everything is hurtling through space, all together. WOW.

[mckitterick]

GOOD POINT! Sure, motion is all relative to position, but still... tens of thousands of miles per hour here, folks, and spinning at the same time.

WHEEEEE!

[houseboatonstyx]

So I copy the link, wireless it to our router, it goes up to a satellite, comes down to our router, goes to my partner's mailbox which is about 3 feet behind my chair.

Wheee!

[mckitterick]

Our little obedient robots ROCK.

Let's hope we avoid the whole SkyNet thing....

[pointoforigin]

This is so thrilling! Thanks for posting!

[mckitterick]

I admit to totally geeking out about this in my SF class yesterday.

[dragonet2]

All our brave little robots. One has gone beyond our solar system for the first time, maybe two. Others are serving on Mars. And this one has LANDED ON A COMET! WOOT.

Seriously. Someone on my FB feed asked why people were excited about it. WTF Dude? We drove something through space at thousands of miles per hour, pursuing and meeting something else traveling thousands of miles an hour. Holy crap, that is impressive.

BRAVE LITTLE ROBOT

[mckitterick]

[mckitterick]

And, yeah, I can't imagine the denseness of someone who CAN'T get excited about this. Those two little explorers spent 10 YEARS chasing down the comet. TEN YEARS. And successfully landed.

DUDE THAT'S AWESOME.