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Because: Science, bitch!

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

"Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax

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Amazing stuff but I was a bit bummed to hear that it bounced twice and its solar panels are now at least partially shaded by a ledge (decreasing its operational life). Hopefully they're able to locate the lander and optimize the sunlight capture (assuming the lander's solar panels have some level of manueverability).

 

Regardless, I love the idea that we now have a craft hurtling through space on a comet. The pictures really look like science fiction.

 

 

Now let's get humans to land on one! (seeing as no one but Elon Musk is in any rush to get to mars) Sure, from a strictly utilitarian point of view humans aren't that cost-efficient (although a human on Mars could do in a few hours what Curiosity has done in 2 years) but in addition to science I love the adventure and inspiration of human missions (even if it is only experienced empathically through someone else). It would be nice if my country would e.g. cut its military budget in at least half, reform our insanely costly healthcare system to something similar to EU member states', tax the insane amount of wealth private individuals hold in this country, etc etc and instead direct those resources to areas like this (and other things concerning the welfare of our citizens).

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Very awe inspiring piece that, 21st century media bling to go with the scentific bling -

  • Planning a journey that would take 10 years making use of gravity assist manoeuvres,
  • to placing a probe in orbit around a giant rock roughly 3-4 miles in diamter,
  • said rock traveling at 84,000 miles per hour over 300'000'000 miles away from earth orbit,
  • and then place a 2 meter sized, 27kg lander on said rock,
  • Result, stupendous awe & amazement.

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