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To: BenLurkin

So just because one comet is this way means we can close the book?


7 posted on 12/18/2014 3:38:33 PM PST by varyouga
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To: varyouga
So just because one comet is this way means we can close the book?

Uh, it is not one comet, but every comet we've visited, flown by, or impacted, that has NOT bothered to meet the orthodox cosmologists dirty snowball descriptions they want them to be. Essentially, they are indistinguishable from ordinary asteroids. Rocks covered with dust.

This one 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is getting ridiculous with the things they are pulling out of their hat. They claim they "drilled" into the surface with their hammer drill, but it was too hard, "as hard as rock," as one scientist put it, to go more than a one or two millimeters with a drill that was intended to go much farther (up to 10 centimeters) into hard primordial ice. Their excuse was the "ice was far harder then expected. . . but, their spokesperson said the ice they hammered was at the acceptable extreme range for super hard ice." Right. But they couldn't drill into it. That's acceptable?

Then, the next day, another group who is trying to locate the probe announces that according to all the sensors' reports, they think the Philae lander is lying on its SIDE at the with at least one of its legs sticking out into space! How did a drill that comes out of the BOTTOM of the lander even go into the comet, if the lander is lying on its side? Second serious question: how did they hammer it in without bouncing, since their "ice anchors" in the legs that were to keep the lander on the surface and hold it down for such drilling, failed to deploy!?!? Keep in mind the gravity on 67P is 1.5mm/second/second and driving a drill into the surface would result in an opposite and equal force in the opposite direction. . . lifting the lander off the surface with each blow of the drill's hammer, if it is NOT anchored. Something simply does not compute in what they are telling the public and what is possible with the engineering of the Phillae lander!

Shortly afterward, Philae shut down for a long winter's nap. . . not to start up again, if at all, until Spring, when it may have enough oomph in its batteries saved up to do a few more experiments.

26 posted on 12/18/2014 6:13:31 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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