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Title: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CHONGS on November 12, 2014, 10:07:07 AM
what now [redacted]?
Title: comet landing
Post by: Fldermaus on November 12, 2014, 10:07:56 AM
Anybody else watching the Euro SA land on the comet right now?
Title: Re: comet landing
Post by: Tobias on November 12, 2014, 10:08:19 AM
flukermaus
Title: Re: comet landing
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on November 12, 2014, 10:22:01 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/comet-landing-countdown/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/world/comet-landing-countdown/)
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Cartierfor3 on November 12, 2014, 10:23:25 AM
GSTOAT

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Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Gooch on November 12, 2014, 10:26:40 AM
Pfft the Wings pwnd the Comets
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: steve dave on November 12, 2014, 10:26:49 AM
crazy partying offshore oil drillers actually did it. wow.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 12, 2014, 10:27:02 AM
Sounds made up.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: 8manpick on November 12, 2014, 10:27:51 AM
Wish it was NASA
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: WildcatNkilt on November 12, 2014, 10:29:26 AM
What if this awakes the bad transformers?   :ohno:
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Cartierfor3 on November 12, 2014, 10:31:07 AM
Wait, its just a robot landing? Meh. Wake me up when its people.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Gooch on November 12, 2014, 10:33:23 AM
So they spent how many tens of millions to do this just to find out it is a giant ball of ice and dirt?
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CHONGS on November 12, 2014, 10:34:38 AM
You laugh now, but when they find that gundam in there you won't be laughing for long.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 12, 2014, 10:37:18 AM
My department head is strutting around like a goddamned peacock today because he worked on this project at his last job.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on November 12, 2014, 10:38:14 AM
Wait, its just a robot landing? Meh. Wake me up when its people.

Still pretty neat. And it gives the Europeans something to be proud of.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CHONGS on November 12, 2014, 10:42:35 AM
My department head is strutting around like a goddamned peacock today because he worked on this project at his last job.
Tails up bro, tails up.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CHONGS on November 12, 2014, 10:50:33 AM
uh oh guys....
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 12, 2014, 11:01:24 AM
Pics or it never happened.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 12, 2014, 11:02:58 AM
Radio said if it lands on something that makes it tip on it's side, the mission is a loss.  Can we fire the engineer that models machines after turtles? 
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on November 12, 2014, 11:04:36 AM
Radio said if it lands on something that makes it tip on it's side, the mission is a loss.  Can we fire the engineer that models machines after turtles?

See, now if we had a human being piloting the thing, this wouldn't be an issue.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Gooch on November 12, 2014, 11:05:47 AM
Is this thing mumped already? Where Ben Affleck to save the day?
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: kso_FAN on November 12, 2014, 11:09:57 AM
Where Ben Affleck to save the day?

Uhm, no. This isn't an asteroid. We need Robert Duvall for this bad boy.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Gooch on November 12, 2014, 11:14:40 AM
Where Ben Affleck to save the day?

Uhm, no. This isn't an asteroid. We need Robert Duvall for this bad boy.
This is correct
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 12, 2014, 11:15:42 AM
guys, if Robet Duval lands on uneven ground, he will also tip over on his side, and will also not be able to get up. 
Title: Re: comet landing
Post by: mocat on November 12, 2014, 11:16:54 AM
flukermaus

you missed a really great opportunity here, Tobias
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: kso_FAN on November 12, 2014, 11:25:05 AM
guys, if Robet Duval lands on uneven ground, he will also tip over on his side, and will also not be able to get up. 

True. Good thing Frodo is somewhere back on earth to keep things calm. Plus, President Morgan Freeman gives me comfort.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Brock Landers on November 12, 2014, 01:06:13 PM
Is this being filmed in the same studio they did the moon landing in?
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Benja on November 12, 2014, 01:09:42 PM
So they spent how many tens of millions to do this just to find out it is a giant ball of ice and dirt?

are you kidding me? this is rough ridin' awesome. plus in the future if a comet if going to blast the human race, hypothetically we can land on it and divert it or whatever.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: UCHADBRO on November 12, 2014, 01:15:43 PM
Until we put people on the Moon/Mars, don't care.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: hemmy on November 12, 2014, 01:55:43 PM
We need to increase NASA funding to kick the ESA's ass.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 12, 2014, 02:00:14 PM
We should take half of NASA's budget and offer it as an X Prize type thing to private companies. 
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on November 12, 2014, 02:35:00 PM
We need to increase NASA funding to kick the ESA's ass.

Agreed. Divert the cash from welfare checks to re-building a kickass space program that kicks the moon and mars's collective metaphorical asses.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: chuckjames on November 12, 2014, 02:36:15 PM
We need to increase NASA funding to kick the ESA's ass.

Agreed. Divert the cash from welfare checks to re-building a kickass space program that kicks the moon and mars's collective metaphorical asses.

This isnt the Pit.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 12, 2014, 02:36:27 PM
Seems like there was a really wasted send-them-to-the-moon moment, here.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CHONGS on November 12, 2014, 02:40:50 PM
grat job hemmy and CNS, way to send this hurdling towards the pit....
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 12, 2014, 02:42:00 PM
If this thread lands on The Pit, they say it will fall on it's side and the mission will be a loss.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Brock Landers on November 12, 2014, 02:45:24 PM
If this thread really was hurtling towards The Pit at least we know the ESA could send a probe to intercept and possibly steer it back to safety.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: hemmy on November 12, 2014, 03:10:35 PM
grat job hemmy and CNS, way to send this hurdling towards the pit....

Says the ESA spy. Probably a communist too. Get out!
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: EMAWmeister on November 12, 2014, 03:16:07 PM
I don't see why we even need to have nasa anymore. Space is a waste of money.

Good for Europe tho!
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: The Big Train on November 12, 2014, 11:26:00 PM
this is a great day for humanity and all you guys can talk about is politics and crap, pretty sad the state of mind all of you guys are in. i for one am pretty rough ridin' jacked that this happened today.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 13, 2014, 05:40:53 AM
Did you guys see Kim's ass? 
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: kso_FAN on November 13, 2014, 08:25:13 AM
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 :emawkid:
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Spracne on November 13, 2014, 08:35:49 AM
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 :emawkid:

Yo Adrian, we did it!
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on November 13, 2014, 08:56:43 AM
What are we looking at here? Did the damned thing really fall over on its side? I thought we were going to get a neat panorama shot or something. Also, is there a video of the touchdown?
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 13, 2014, 09:36:30 AM
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 :emawkid:

I am assuming that the thing in the photo is the robot and that Robert Duval took this pic.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: mocat on November 13, 2014, 09:43:50 AM
B+W? srsly?  :lol:
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on November 13, 2014, 10:15:34 AM
That thing looks extremely boring.  :zzz:
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 13, 2014, 10:54:33 AM
NASA would def had HD color up there.  Europe.....
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: kso_FAN on November 13, 2014, 10:56:42 AM
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 :emawkid:

I am assuming that the thing in the photo is the robot and that Robert Duval took this pic.

Close, but not quite...

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Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 13, 2014, 10:58:53 AM
Poor guy landed on his side.  Welp.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Dugout DickStone on November 13, 2014, 11:02:04 AM
Did you guys see the pictures of Robert Duval's ass?
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Tobias on November 13, 2014, 11:03:15 AM
caught that buried in an archive of the fappening
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: pissclams on November 13, 2014, 12:30:14 PM
what's up with the comit stuff?   who gives two fucks about it b/c i don't. not a question.
land a starship on a new earth and i might read the story on cnn.com otherwise don't clog up my bbs with this crap
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: K-S-U-Wildcats! on November 13, 2014, 01:32:12 PM
So I guess nobody during the design phase asked the question "what if, after a 10 year journey and hundreds of millions of dollars, this dishwasher sitting precariously on top of an awkward tripod lands on it's side?" I think that if at least one normal, non-engineer person was involved in designing this thing, it would have been equiped with a GoPro, a cupholder, and a mechanism for flipping over.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: The Big Train on November 13, 2014, 10:59:35 PM
the comet is singing  :runaway:

https://soundcloud.com/esaops/a-singing-comet
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on November 15, 2014, 02:27:08 AM
Now we just need to put a robot on Haley's comet next time it runs around, and let it log data as it travels across the universe. Then we can launch another robot to collect the data next time the comet gets close. We would see all kinds of cool crap I bet.
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 15, 2014, 10:01:06 AM
Pretty great idea
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Spracne on November 15, 2014, 12:26:09 PM

                                                                                     Have they figured out what it's made of, yet?
(https://itresonates.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/wal.png)
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: renocat on November 15, 2014, 10:39:48 PM

                                                                                     Have they figured out what it's made of, yet?
(https://itresonates.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/wal.png)
One of God's buggers!
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: pissclams on November 19, 2014, 02:49:25 PM
big shout out to all the comet heads out there- tonight at 9 cst on pbs they're doing a special on the comet landing
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CHONGS on November 19, 2014, 03:12:12 PM
You would have to be in a coma to miss it!
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: CNS on November 19, 2014, 03:14:46 PM

I bet it's in black and white
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Benja on November 20, 2014, 09:28:00 AM
Now we just need to put a robot on Haley's comet next time it runs around, and let it log data as it travels across the universe. Then we can launch another robot to collect the data next time the comet gets close. We would see all kinds of cool crap I bet.

pretty great idea
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: The Big Train on November 20, 2014, 10:30:52 AM
You would have to be in a coma to miss it!

 :D
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: slackcat on November 21, 2014, 07:06:14 AM
What if the landing changed the trajectory?   :horrorsurprise:
Title: Re: Hey guys we landed on a comet
Post by: Benja on November 21, 2014, 08:52:49 AM
What if the landing changed the trajectory?   :horrorsurprise:

would be kinda a hilarious way to go out