Machine lands on comet; DUmmies jealous. And forgetful.

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 Bosonic (2,814 posts)

Probe makes historic comet landing

Source: BBC

European robot probe Philae has made the first, historic landing on a comet, after descending from its mothership.

The lander touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at about 1605 GMT.

There were cheers and hugs at the control room in Darmstadt, Germany after the signal was confirmed.

It was designed to shine a light on some of the mysteries of these icy relics from the formation of the Solar System.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30026398

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014942729


(The American Gynecological Association is paying close attention, as their preferred method of treating LynneSin and Nadin would be to shoot a similar probe at great distance to their dank cooters)


In the last few years the DUmmies have fallen in love with "science," which I place in quotes because DUmmies only like science to the extent that it tells them what they want to hear and nothing else at all. Anyway, they have serious space envy, as anytime anything happens in space, they whine that NASA isn't doing it. Example:

global1 (11,990 posts)

6. Catch A Falling Star........

Congrats to the ESA!!!!!!!!

I just feel bad that it wasn't NASA doing the celebration. Seems like the U.S. is falling farther and farther behind.

Behind in what? Landing a microwave on a rock? We landed men on a rock and they came back. Several times. 40 years ago.

Response to global1 (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 12, 2014, 04:32 PM

world wide wally (1,251 posts)

7. Yeah, but the Koch brothers are doing fine

One gets the idea that DU would love NOTHING more than for NASA to have every nickel in the budget (if we had one, that is) so they could shoot shit into space all in the name of
giving that Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids reject Neil deAssi Tyson or whatever something to crow about.

Something has bothered me about the DUmmies' NASA obsession. Seems to me that a while back, when things were MUUUUUCH better than they are now, they had certain other opinions about jacking around in space. Let's board the wayback machine to DUmmypast:

Sinistrous (1000+ posts)    Sun Jan-18-04 12:12 AM
Original message

Another perspective on the manned mission to Mars:
   
For the $1 trillion that bush intends to waste on this ludicrous farce, NASA could put 1.250 rover-quality robots to Mars.

Meanwhile we lose the Hubble, and god knows how many other programs doing real science and providing real benefits.

Gee, what was different back then?

NNadir  (1000+ posts)    Sun Jan-18-04 12:14 AM

1. Sick, ain't it.
   
   
tinrobot (1000+ posts)    Sun Jan-18-04 12:15 AM
Response to Original message
2. Maybe just. send a hundred rovers ...
   
...and spend the rest on paying down the damn deficit.

I also would imagine building 100 rovers is a lot cheaper per rover than building them one and two at a time...
   
 
kalian  (1000+ posts)    Sun Jan-18-04 12:20 AM
Response to Original message
3. I could care less about rovers, Mars, et al....
   
that money could be better spent in helping the unemployed SURVIVE.
The homeless have a roof over their heads. Our children educated
and thus competitve in the future.

I am sick and tired of scams!
   

How very interesting.

sally343434  (628 posts)    Sun Jan-18-04 12:32 AM
Response to Original message
4. Don't worry
   
There won't be any money spent on any trip to Mars because, like all the previous "ideas" spouted from the Royal Pie Hole, the Mars/Moon proposal wasn't serious. The press just pretends it is so they can continue to prop up The Fraud.

   
 
Wells  (672 posts)    Sun Jan-18-04 12:48 AM
Response to Reply #4
5. Exactly!
   
Duhbya's Mars Mission is BS. There's only only one purpose for further space exploration under a Bush plan: WEAPONS IN SPACE. And, for that, the moon is as far as he need go. If he thought he'd get to push the nuke button himself, he'd fly to the moon for the photo-op.

Oh, and if you want something more relevant to this actual mission, here's DU when Bush wanted to do exactly the same thing:

LongTomH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore    Wed May-07-08 01:46 PM
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Closer encounter: Nasa plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid travelling at 28,000mph
   
Source: The Guardian UK

It was once considered the most dangerous object in the universe, heading for Earth with the explosive power of 84 Hiroshimas. Now an asteroid called 2000SG344, a lump of rock barely the size of a large yacht, is in the spotlight again, this time as a contender for the next giant leap for mankind.

Nasa engineers have identified the 1.1m tonne asteroid, which in 2000 was given a significant chance of slamming into Earth, as a potential landing site for astronauts, ahead of the Bush administration's plans to venture deeper into the solar system with a crewed voyage to Mars.

The mission - the first to what officials call a Near Earth Object (NEO) - is being floated within the US space agency as a crucial stepping stone to future space exploration.

A report seen by the Guardian notes that by sending astronauts on a three-month journey to the hurtling asteroid, scientists believe they would learn more about the psychological effects of long-term missions and the risks of working in deep space, and it would allow astronauts to test kits to convert subsurface ice into drinking water, breathable oxygen and even hydrogen to top up rocket fuel. All of which would be invaluable before embarking on a two-year expedition to Mars.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3299964


Gee, wonder what DU thought of that idea when it was of the Bush era...

izquierdista (1000+ posts)    Wed May-07-08 01:50 PM

1. Lowered expectations
   
Kennedy: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth."

Bush: "There's this rock, see....."

BearSquirrel2 (1000+ posts)    Wed May-07-08 02:56 PM
Response to Original message
8. STUPID ...
   

The only possible benefit I can see is if Bush is the astronaut and it's a one way mission.

Send dedicated career professionals .... robots.

barnel  (224 posts)   Wed May-07-08 06:18 PM
Response to Original message
14. 'and we plan to sculpt it into the shape of a shark'
   
as a way to waste even more money

L. Coyote (1000+ posts)    Wed May-07-08 11:39 PM
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19. How much food and shelter for homeless Americans would this buy?

What a bunch of hypocritical assfaces.

[Texacon]

 

Excellent BFDU!

KC

[DLR Pyro]

I just feel bad that it wasn't NASA doing the celebration. Seems like the U.S. is falling farther and farther behind.

They have had to put space exploration on the back burner while doing everything they can to boost the self esteem of muslims and to make them feel better about themselves.

[GOBUCKS]

Haven't the DUmmies heard?

Their jug-eared Kenyan shut down the American space program, to hand out more money to urban 0bamaites.

We can't even get to the space station, which we bought, launched, assembled, and paid for, without begging the Russians for a ride.

The democrat objectives for NASA are diversity and outreach to muzzies.

[BannedFromDU]

They have had to put space exploration on the back burner while doing everything they can to boost the self esteem of muslims and to make them feel better about themselves.

      The Rosetta mission launched in 2004. Since 2004 through 2011 (the last year of shuttle missions which were shut down by the 0chucklenuts Administration), there were 21
individual Shuttle missions involving 3 different shuttles and over 100 astronauts.

      There is also the highly insignificant matter of the Opportunity mission, which put an RC car ON MARS TEN FREAKING YEARS AGO. Don't hear too much from DU about that one anymore. 

      But we're the incompetent ones since Europe landed an appliance on a rock.

[BannedFromDU]

Haven't the DUmmies heard?

Their jug-eared Kenyan shut down the American space program, to hand out more money to urban 0bamaites.

We can't even get to the space station, which we bought, launched, assembled, and paid for, without begging the Russians for a ride.

The democrat objectives for NASA are diversity and outreach to muzzies.

      Truer words never written ^5.

[98ZJUSMC]

L. Coyote (1000+ posts)    Wed May-07-08 11:39 PM
Response to Original message
19. How much food and shelter for homeless Americans would this buy?

Blow it out your collective salad tossers, idiots.  This was the same bullshit comment that led the newly elected (D)Marxists to effectively kill Apollo, delay and scaled down the Shuttle, and on and on.

...and yes, if it's a Republican doing it you cry and scream for the Welfare State.

GFY.   

[thundley4]

Americans spent millions of dollars developing an ink pen that would work in space. Russians used a pencil.

[GOBUCKS]

Americans spent millions of dollars developing an ink pen that would work in space. Russians used a pencil.

Urban legend.

Americans used pencils in space until the zero gravity ballpoint was developed by an American company with no government involvement.

They were offered to NASA for about three bucks apiece and were used until the jug-eared muslim shut down the space program.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Now if only we could get a comet to land on the Democrat machine.

[obumazombie]

They manage to make everything about Bush. Maybe they can do the same to the ongoing revelations that owebumacare was a pack of lies.

[thundley4]

Urban legend.

Americans used pencils in space until the zero gravity ballpoint was developed by an American company with no government involvement.

They were offered to NASA for about three bucks apiece and were used until the jug-eared muslim shut down the space program.

It still makes a good joke and points out wasteful government spending. I can remember some pen being marketed as the "Space Pen" but don't remember the brand.

[landofconfusion80]

It still makes a good joke and points out wasteful government spending. I can remember some pen being marketed as the "Space Pen" but don't remember the brand.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vjhS1DBefA[/youtube]

[thundley4]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vjhS1DBefA[/youtube]

I had one of those a long time ago, but don't know where I had gotten it nor what happened to it since then.

[landofconfusion80]

I had one of those a long time ago, but don't know where I had gotten it nor what happened to it since then.

got any teenage sons? might be in a backpack....

[GOBUCKS]

There was a Seinfeld episode about the space pen.

[DLR Pyro]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODO0zQBPI2k[/youtube]