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Philae probe reaches comet, makes space history
Fox News ^ | November 12, 2014 | James Rogers

Posted on 11/12/2014 8:30:03 AM PST by Olog-hai

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1 posted on 11/12/2014 8:30:03 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Meanwhile NASA is achieving muslin outreach! God I miss the days when our president was an American.


2 posted on 11/12/2014 8:32:50 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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God I miss the days when our president was an American.

Me too!!!!! King Obama is a communists black Muslim traitor.

3 posted on 11/12/2014 8:36:14 AM PST by Logical me
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To be honest, I really expected the do nothing Europeans to fail - to my surprise it was a success.


4 posted on 11/12/2014 8:37:49 AM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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A great achievement, congrats to ESA and all others involved.


5 posted on 11/12/2014 8:51:09 AM PST by 1066AD
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There was an issue with the landing bolts that shoot out to anchor the craft. Apparently they did not fire. Guess they won’t know if it’s a stable landing until some pics come back.


6 posted on 11/12/2014 8:58:26 AM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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Quite impressive to land so precisely on a what is essentially a speck of dust from so far away.

When it comes to cutting edge scientific exploration the Europeans are starting to kick our butts. First there was the Highs bosom and now this.


7 posted on 11/12/2014 9:06:10 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Sam Gamgee
To be honest, I really expected the do nothing Europeans to fail - to my surprise it was a success.

Well, they didn't have to deal with metric to standard conversion, so they had that going for them...

8 posted on 11/12/2014 9:06:20 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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9 posted on 11/12/2014 9:19:45 AM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Philae Lander? Ted Kennedy in space?


10 posted on 11/12/2014 9:20:47 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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They are already back-pedaling on the Higgs Boson.


11 posted on 11/12/2014 9:26:32 AM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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I prefer to stay away from Higgs’ bosom. I do not swing that way.


12 posted on 11/12/2014 9:27:24 AM PST by Olog-hai
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That’s good. Calling it the God Particle was in and of itself blasphemous.


13 posted on 11/12/2014 9:28:52 AM PST by Olog-hai
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Yeah and what about GodZilla?


14 posted on 11/12/2014 9:31:19 AM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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Bad transliteration of “Gojira” (ゴジラ).
15 posted on 11/12/2014 9:36:58 AM PST by Olog-hai
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16 posted on 11/12/2014 9:40:43 AM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: Olog-hai; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson
accompanied by rapturous scenes at the ESA’s control room in Darmstadt, Germany

Ich bin ein Biglander

17 posted on 11/12/2014 11:33:43 AM PST by mikrofon (Philae Minion)
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Live Stream report:

The lander landed, but the harpoon didn’t fire. Landing gear worked perfectly and absorbed the force of impact.

Still trying to figure out what is going on. Some data indicates that the lander may have bounced off the comet.

May have landed twice on the comet.

Radio link is gone for the time being, as expected. Will re-establish contact tomorrow morning.


18 posted on 11/12/2014 12:39:23 PM PST by kidd
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Meanwhile NASA is achieving muslin outreach!

I wonder if the ESA made sure it landed on the side of the comet that is facing Mecca?

19 posted on 11/12/2014 12:40:57 PM PST by kidd
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I’m old enough to remember when America led the way in space exploration. We’ve gone from landing men on the moon to having no manned space program at all. But we’re making muslims feel good about themselves.. or something.


20 posted on 11/12/2014 2:03:00 PM PST by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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