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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I see it has landed safely on the comet.A huge congratulations to the boffins that got it there....BUT...... Why I don't see the point, I don't see its purpose.....with all that's going on in this world what difference is knowing the structure of ice on a comet 3 million miles away going to make...Does anyone really care?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its hoped that studying the dust and ice on the Comet will help scientists to understand more about our universe so they can then devise better ways to destroy it

Gimp

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

There's a theory that water came to earth via a comet so they might be able to see if there's any evidence and other stuff. Maybe what they find out won be any use in the short term but maybe will be so in the future. Maybe they will be able to land a robot on an earth collision comet and turn it away so this shows that at least can be done.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

I just find it funny the way the comet is described!

(From the BBC website!)

Comet 67P

More than four billion years old

Mass of 10 billion tonnes

Hurtling through space at 18km/s (40,000mph)

Shaped like a rubber duck

I'll never look at a rubber duck in the same way!

A

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once knew a girl called Rosetta, she liked a good old probe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have a look around the world and there's millions of shameful and pointless acts happening....This is amazing. ..we're furthering our understanding and pushing boundaries of exploration and maybe the chance to exploit space in the future. Exciting I think.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Doing things like this help us advance and develop. I am sure someone said that developing the internet was a waste of time, money etc.

Now that the probe is communicating we will see if anything interesting is to be known about comets.

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch


"There's a theory that water came to earth via a comet so they might be able to see if there's any evidence and other stuff. Maybe what they find out won be any use in the short term but maybe will be so in the future. Maybe they will be able to land a robot on an earth collision comet and turn it away so this shows that at least can be done. "

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch


"Doing things like this help us advance and develop. I am sure someone said that developing the internet was a waste of time, money etc.

Now that the probe is communicating we will see if anything interesting is to be known about comets.

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By *ensualtouch15Man
over a year ago

ashby de la zouch

Oh and the key to its use is in the name

Rossetta

Literally the key x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hope we didn't open the champagne too soon. The probe is not yet safe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30032559

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Daily Mail confirmed that the money used on the comet should instead be used to fight the war on immigrants. Further stating that if the comet experiment is successful we may stumble across another planet with a similar environment to Earth but full of swingers.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!


"Hope we didn't open the champagne too soon. The probe is not yet safe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30032559"

Maybe just a nice cup of tea at this stage then

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is this the latest Ann Summers offering

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By *otlovefun42Couple
over a year ago

Costa Blanca Spain...


"The Daily Mail confirmed that the money used on the comet should instead be used to fight the war on immigrants. Further stating that if the comet experiment is successful we may stumble across another planet with a similar environment to Earth but full of swingers. "

You forgot to say what their houses are worth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Hope we didn't open the champagne too soon. The probe is not yet safe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30032559

Maybe just a nice cup of tea at this stage then "

Seems like it's panic over now, so back to the champagne!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Hope we didn't open the champagne too soon. The probe is not yet safe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30032559

Maybe just a nice cup of tea at this stage then

Seems like it's panic over now, so back to the champagne!"

...until the first picture it beams back is of a little green man giving us the finger....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Hope we didn't open the champagne too soon. The probe is not yet safe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30032559

Maybe just a nice cup of tea at this stage then

Seems like it's panic over now, so back to the champagne!

...until the first picture it beams back is of a little green man giving us the finger.... "

Move on to the brandy at that point. There's a drink for every occasion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does anyone really care?"

Apparently not as in today's metro the probe's touchdown was the front page lead story, but was overshadowed by a much bigger headline plugging a story on "Cheryl: I don't care what size my booty is".

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I see it has landed safely on the comet.A huge congratulations to the boffins that got it there....BUT...... Why I don't see the point, I don't see its purpose.....with all that's going on in this world what difference is knowing the structure of ice on a comet 3 million miles away going to make...Does anyone really care?"

And where would we be today if it wasnt for exploration?

If people adopted that attitude centuries ago we would still believe the world is flat. Imagine someone saying to Christopher Columbus "dont bother going off in your ship mate its pointless save the money to pay cleaners to clear the shit off the streets here"

Study of space may seem a waste of time now but in the future it could save the human race, the sun is going to burn out at some point in the future therefore we need to explore to preserve future generations

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does anyone really care?

Apparently not as in today's metro the probe's touchdown was the front page lead story, but was overshadowed by a much bigger headline plugging a story on "Cheryl: I don't care what size my booty is". "

Hands up who'd love to probe Cheryls booty....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what else is the heavens there for...

It doesn't work in a pub after 11 though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seriously now, its a very important scientific and technical triumph! The scale of the numbers involved is mind blowing. I take my hat off to the hundreds of cardigan wearing propeller heads that have worked for years and years in a darkened office with complex computer algorithms flying around in their heads trying to work out how fuck they get their hole... sorry to get a little robotic probe onto a Rubber Duck flying at 40,000 mph millions of miles away in outer space!

I'm looking forward to the selfies it sends back

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By *ptimusDMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

In itself, it is a very impressive feat. What they achieved is equivalent to throwing a hammer in London, aiming to hit a nail in Mumbai, and actually succeeding.

Putting that aside, lots of things we enjoy today through science were not the aims of the research that brought them about. Penicillin, electricity, insulin, viagra, Velcro, the pacemaker, dynamite, radioactivity, the x-ray, quinine, the microwave, etc, etc.

All these were stumbled upon entirely by accident, when scientists were aiming for other outcomes.

So, who knows what could be stumbled upon by this very impressive scientific feat, which on the face of it might seem pointless but could potentially have immeasurably useful outcomes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh. Thought this was going to be about a new anal sex toy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It bounced.... no wonder, it's a fucking rubber duck!

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