Here's a picture taken from a comet hurtling through space which we landed a craft on

[Classic Jorge]

I'll say it again, int spaaaaaaaaaace greeeeeeeeat?! Mind blowing stuff!

http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2014/02/philae_touchdown/14277344-1-eng-GB/Philae_touchdown.jpg

[Harry Balls]

Fantastic stuff, though I do not think slowing down a comet to capture it for harvesting resources is a good idea. Too much risk at that velocity of it slamming into someone's backyard and giving us all a rough few thousand years or so.

[Berni]

I think the words 'artist's impression' are what you're looking for here.

[Classic Jorge]

I tried to post the video of it originally but it had ads in it so I edited the post. One thing though, it's communicating at 28kbps speed.

You can, and I have, had worse broadband speeds than that.

[Classic Jorge]

There's one theory that says comets seeded life on the planet, one also created the moon too.

[Berni]

batteries are going to die. :-(

These people are time and money-wasting, speccy, biros in the breast pocket nerdy ****s, j. And, which is worse, it's MY F.UCKING MONEY THEY'RE PISSING AWAY ON THIS RUBBISH! :furious:

They all want shooting.

[Brentwood]

and made a misogynistic comment about jumping on her and riding her :hehe:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/13/why-women-in- science-are-annoyed-at-rosetta-mission-scientists-clothing (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/13/why-women-in-science-are-annoyed-at-rosetta-mission-scientists-clothing)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/13/1415879736777/b288d9a2-6fc6-4f6c-b143-09bc706bfaa0-460x276.jpeg

[Monty91]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

Replace half naked PVC clad women with Gollowogs (or seal cubs being clubbed to death, if you are more worried about animals than people) - still not worth thinking about?

[Brentwood]

instead you'd probably be offended by it

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Berni]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

Banning shirts is clearly the only solution

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I have no idea who is responsible for this achievement, I assumed the septics all the same.

I would struggle to find things in life that I give less of a f**k about. 10 years I believe these c**ts have been working on this. What a complete and utter waste of money.

I would shoot every last one of the f**kers.

[Berni]

http://ih2.redbubble.net/image.7325566.0434/figtn,220x294,white,mens,ffffff.jpg

http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/i_club_baby_seals_tshirt-r9c4a673a2f464998ae1c9ac287343de6_f04jm_512.jpg

[Brentwood]

http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/CNBC-host-hazy-on- Irelands-independence-from-UK-asks-why-Ireland-uses-the-Euro -VIDEO.html (http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/craic/CNBC-host-hazy-on-Irelands-independence-from-UK-asks-why-Ireland-uses-the-Euro-VIDEO.html)

[Berni]

jokers are wasting OUR money on this ****.

[Classic Jorge]

And yea, not like finding out more about how life on this earth came about can be of any value or anything.

What a complete waste of money, costing as it did roughly a tenth of the cost of the 2012 Olympics.

And you said I was stupid and ignorant about inheritance tax

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Thicker than travellers.

[Berni]

At least the Olympics kept people entertained. And Westfield Stratford's pretty good.

This thing says nothing to me about my life. Space is boring and you and I will never, ever go there.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

In essence they have spent 10 years spending huge sums of money for less than f**k all and if you tease your comment out to try and find an answer for a question that mankind will probably never be able to answer.

Wd scientists. c**ts. Shooting is probably too kind as it would by a quick end for them. They should in fact have a pool cue rammed up their holes to then die a slow and painful death from internal injuries and bleeding (as shown on RTE last week).

[Classic Jorge]

I simply refuse to believe you can't see the value of stuff like this to our progress as a species. You can't be that ignorant.

If you are I would like to speak to your publishers

[Classic Jorge]

We've just commissioned an aircraft carrier costing 6.2bn which we have no planes for and a space mission is a waste?

[Berni]

I'm not one of your 'gawp up at the stars in slack-jawed wonder' types, j. I think the instinct to do that is a bit caveman-ey, really. They can do their thing and I'll do mine and never the twain shall meet.

I am literally more interested in The Isle of Man than in the whole of space, because there's a chance I may go to the Isle of Man one of these days and, if I do, I'd like to know something about it. Space, not so much.

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

That goes beyond wilfully ignorant

[Classic Jorge]

Can you imagine Lord Nelson's face when he sees i...oh he's dead

[Berni]

I've also seen space hardware being built and tested.

Personally, I preferred the big, f**k-off warship.

[Pat Vegas]

[Berni]

Since the lack of action is j's key criticism of cricket, I find his interest in space slightly contradictory

[Supermac1976]

[CrossGun]