http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Rosetta en Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:24:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-232541 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:11:38 +0000 Stickman 232541@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Top marks to whoever runs their Twitter account:</p> <p>""What’s this thing coming towards me…I wonder if it will be friends with me?!" #HHGTTG ;) #CometLanding images here: ow.ly/2k0x304InOb" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-232526 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:56:09 +0000 I were right about that saddle 232526@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dramatic end.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2016/sep/30/rosetta-space-probe-to-end-mission-with-comet-landing-live" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2016/sep/30/rosetta-space-probe-to-end-mission-with-comet-landing-live</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-229770 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:35:16 +0000 ih 229770@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That mission was astonishing. Britain was involved because we were IN EUROPE. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-229767 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:24:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 229767@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hooray!</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/05/philae-found/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/05/philae-found/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172097 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:08:48 +0000 Stickman 172097@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats: /applause/ </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172096 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:58:16 +0000 I were right about that saddle 172096@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wingpig</p> <p>Philae sends a fax<br /> To our hi-tech Twitter age<br /> Hashtag WTF </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172095 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:53:40 +0000 wingpig 172095@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"'We should really be in awe of the fact that pictures from a comet are fired to us at our desks.'</p> <p>Clarke's Third Law."</em></blockquote></p> <p>Whilst we've been enjoying mostly-ever-faster home broadband and mobile data transfer speeds for the past ten years down here we must remember that the data rates between Philae and Rosetta and Rosetta are effectively from another era. That we've received pictures is extremely impressive, but I worry that the absence of a webcam providing a multi-megapixel live stream in colour might make it seem less impressive to some. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172093 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:25:25 +0000 steveo 172093@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"The lander is roughly the size of a washing machine"</p> <p>And that's why the council is pushing for out of orbit shopping centres. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172092 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:20:12 +0000 Stickman 172092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"We should really be in awe of the fact that pictures from a comet are fired to us at our desks."</em></p> <p>Clarke's Third Law. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172071 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:19:32 +0000 Darkerside 172071@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can also confirm that ESA's success have not rubbed off on me: I'm still rubbish at Kerbal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172061 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:47:28 +0000 steveo 172061@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dunno about bollards but that appears to be Optimus Prime watching it land! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172059 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:45:55 +0000 I were right about that saddle 172059@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>May not be gritted, but at least the bollards seem to have been knocked over and removed;</p> <p><a href="http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-700/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/13/1415873992941/f7166bdc-4410-460d-8ee5-4377ab480e25-620x372.jpeg" rel="nofollow">http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-700/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/13/1415873992941/f7166bdc-4410-460d-8ee5-4377ab480e25-620x372.jpeg</a></p> <p>We should really be in awe of the fact that pictures from a comet are fired to us at our desks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172057 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:41:17 +0000 steveo 172057@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Fancy way of saying "Wrong type of snow".. ;-) </em></p> <p>hehe </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172054 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:33:13 +0000 Min 172054@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS - We recently watched a whole TV show about it where that was all held to be some sort of conspiracy!</p> <p>Steveo <em>Typical CEC, they never bother to grit lander paths despite ten years of exponential growth in the areas traffic volume. </em></p> <p>Haha!</p> <p><em>Engineers know that the anchoring harpoons did not fire. It is also known that the communications link to Rosetta failed intermittently in an irregular pattern shortly after the landing but always immediately re-established itself.</em></p> <p>Fancy way of saying "Wrong type of snow".. ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172053 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:29:35 +0000 I were right about that saddle 172053@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Min</p> <p>Ah yes. I remember when the first albedo calculations were done. No one believed the answers - total consternation that the surface appeared to be blacker then the Earl of Hell's waistcoat. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172050 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:25:45 +0000 steveo 172050@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Typical CEC, they never bother to grit lander paths despite ten years of exponential growth in the areas traffic volume. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172048 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:20:58 +0000 Min 172048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I haven't read New Scientist in your folks' bathroom but I am sure it is a very hygienic experience. The comet looks less than snowy though. So far. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172046 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:15:43 +0000 I were right about that saddle 172046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Must confess to not being in the least excited about this."</p> <p>Not to worry. You must feel like I do when people talk about football and shopping. I love this stuff because it's achieving what artists throughout time have dreamt of doing - leaving the plane of the mundane altogether.</p> <p>"It looks pretty dirty to me." </p> <p>What does? New Scientist? My folks' bathroom? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913&page=2#post-172042 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:06:33 +0000 Min 172042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS <em>I've been following the 'composition of comets' debate since the mid seventies, starting with reading my dad's New Scientist in the bathroom. This could be quite a day for that old astrochestnut. </em></p> <p>It looks pretty dirty to me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-172033 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:48:24 +0000 steveo 172033@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or any direct real time control... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-172030 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:46:33 +0000 Baldcyclist 172030@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Must confess to not being in the least excited about this.</p> <p>Sure, what they find out from the comet might turn out to be interesting.</p> <p>But being able to land something on an object going at a pre-defined speed, on a pre-defined trajectory isn't that ground breaking. Just like landing a plane on an aircraft carrier, except further away and without air friction or waves to worry about. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-172022 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:00:26 +0000 Darkerside 172022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>BBC have an online video of an open university scientist completely, wildly, and exuberantly losing it with the news of a successful launch.</p> <p>I envy anyone who can be that inspired by their career!</p> <p>In other news, Philae is stable on the surface, although may have bounced a few times on landing... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-172019 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:37:23 +0000 chdot 172019@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>JRehling (@JRehling)<br /> 12/11/2014 17:01<br /> Fox: "Why did America waste money landing on a comet?"<br /> Scientist: "This is a European mission."<br /> Fox: "Why didn't America get there first?"</p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-172018 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:20:27 +0000 Snowy 172018@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The fact the mission was approved 21 years ago, back in November 1993, gives a very specific gravitas to the phrase "a lifetime's work".<br /> Chapeau, ESA! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-172015 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:00:01 +0000 Darkerside 172015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A not-overly-well-written dump of thoughts on the matter:</p> <p><a href="http://www.darkerside.org/2014/11/rosetta-philae-comet-67p-2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.darkerside.org/2014/11/rosetta-philae-comet-67p-2/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-171992 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:39:03 +0000 chdot 171992@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Nathan Allen (@Sparkly77)<br /> 12/11/2014 17:18<br /> Unexpected TV pictures coming in live,from #cometlanding </p> <p><a href="http://pic.twitter.com/TXTNRPEdQG" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/TXTNRPEdQG</a></p> <p> " </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-171990 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:22:21 +0000 chdot 171990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>1h ago19:58 Philae may have landed not once but twice – that’s the final message from Esa this evening. </p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2014/nov/12/rosetta-comet-landing-live-blog#block-5463bbdfe4b0f33efafdaa9f" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2014/nov/12/rosetta-comet-landing-live-blog#block-5463bbdfe4b0f33efafdaa9f</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-171952 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:20:09 +0000 I were right about that saddle 171952@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Independence Party will object to foreign probes coming here taking our sooty space slush. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-171950 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:15:00 +0000 Darkerside 171950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Touchdown!</p> <p>Said in the excited voice of an American football commentator. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13913#post-171949 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:07:00 +0000 I were right about that saddle 171949@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yay!</p> <p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2014/nov/12/rosetta-comet-landing-live-blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/live/2014/nov/12/rosetta-comet-landing-live-blog</a> </p>