The Rosetta probe has woken up ...

[pgwenthold]

They say it has retracted it's landing gear and is sitting on the surface of the comet.

I am just waiting from someone to discover it their backyard in Alabama.

 

[Faydra]

Awesome!

 

[marplots]

I'm listening to the speeches. Why are there so many foreigners involved in this? America has certainly changed since Apollo.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I'm listening to the speeches. Why are there so many foreigners involved in this? America has certainly changed since Apollo.

We let the Europeans do this one, since there was no danger of killing anyone.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I'm waiting for the Food Babe to post about the science of the mission on Facebook.

 

[rwguinn]

Hot diggity damn!

 

[GlennB]

Stunning achievement. Outrageous.

 

[foophil]

I'm listening to the speeches. Why are there so many foreigners involved in this? America has certainly changed since Apollo.

I hope this is a joke.

If not, ESA = European Space Agency. Not NASA.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Oh no. The lady MC said she wanted one of the mission shirts, and the guy who just spoke offered his (off his back). The SJWs will go ballistic. Sexism!!! Misogyny!!! Patriarchy!!!

 

[Pianoro]

I'm listening to the speeches. Why are there so many foreigners involved in this? America has certainly changed since Apollo.

NASA has three instruments on Rosetta and is also providing infrastructure for communication with the spacecraft.

 

[Verklagekasper]

They haven't yet placed the nukes and blew up the thing, so earth still isn't safe.

 

[marplots]

Is that a thigh bone in that one pic?

 

[macdoc]

Brilliant

 

[Beelzebuddy]

Is that a thigh bone in that one pic?

No, it's a ship. It just LOOKS like a thigh bone tossed in the air, because it's a metaphor for human progress.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The anchors didn't shoot. Sounds like they can still shoot them. Otherwise a stiff breeze could blow the lander off the comet.

 

[anglolawyer]

Worse than that, I bet the bloody thing has knocked the comet off its hitherto completely safe trajectory into a direct collision path with Earth, where it will arrive next Tuesday. Brilliant!

 

[Donn]

http://xkcd1446.org/ .. is harrowing right now.

 

[GlennB]

NASA has three instruments on Rosetta and is also providing infrastructure for communication with the spacecraft.

Plus Bruce Willis was piloting the thing all along.

 

[rwguinn]

When somebody mentioned that it may be just a loose, spongey lump of sand, I had a vision of the harpoon firing all the way through the thing and orbital mechanics tying a knot in the cable...

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

When somebody mentioned that it may be just a loose, spongey lump of sand, I had a vision of the harpoon firing all the way through the thing and orbital mechanics tying a knot in the cable...

Great, now I'm thinking of some great space spider weaving a web with the cables.