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We can land a probe on a comet 300 million miles away.....
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“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.” -
Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI have a few friends working on that and was having a BBQ a couple of weeks ago with them, looks interesting. As for the planes, another friend was working at Airbus in Hamburg a while ago when they were developing the A380 and the original plan was for that to have no windows and the prototypes he flew on actually had none.
Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostHas it crashed yet?
Just asking, like.
"Touchdown! My new address: 67P! #CometLanding - @Philae2104" https://twitter.com/Philae2014/statu...64514051735552Comment
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Humor'ish“Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.”Comment
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Apparently it appears it might have bounced when the anchoring harpoons fired.
Now it's easy for me to be an armchair rocket scientist, but a few hours ago I was pondering how they were going to attach it to the surface. I was thinking - they can't use harpoons because of Newton's third law - equal and opposite reaction and all that
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Originally posted by centurian View PostApparently it appears it might have bounced when the anchoring harpoons fired.
Now it's easy for me to be an armchair rocket scientist, but a few hours ago I was pondering how they were going to attach it to the surface. I was thinking - they can't use harpoons because of Newton's third law - equal and opposite reaction and all that
Still, you would have thought that a team of rocket scientists would have thought of that some time in the twenty-five years they've been working on it.
Oh, hang on, they did: the idea was that a thruster on top of it would fire at the same time as the harpoons were shot into the surface, to counteract the recoil.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThe harpoons didn't fire.
Still, you would have thought that a team of rocket scientists would have thought of that some time in the twenty-five years they've been working on it.
Oh, hang on, they did: the idea was that a thruster on top of it would fire at the same time as the harpoons were shot into the surface, to counteract the recoil.Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.Comment
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Current status is that it has landed (twice) and is still landed, and is stable.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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