A Wonderful European Triumph!

[P. G. Tipps]

What a wonderful triumph for European science and technical expertise in being able to land a spacecraft on a comet over 300 million miles away in outer space!

Just goes to show what Europeans can do together when they all pull in the same direction? One does wonder what the DM's headline will be tomorrow, though!!

Congratulations to all involved!

[amateur51]

A great achievement indeed, let's hope that after doing some sniffing the gadget can send back some useful data.

I had imagined that, given the heading, we'd be discussing the fact that the EU has discovered that it apparently already has some means to prevent/deter 'benefit tourism' (should it exist).

But no.

Suits me.

[ahinton]

What a wonderful triumph for European science and technical expertise in being able to land a spacecraft on a comet over 300 million miles away in outer space!

Just goes to show what Europeans can do together when they all pull in the same direction? One does wonder what the DM's headline will be tomorrow, though!!

Congratulations to all involved!

Flawless though it seems it might not quite have been, it is indeed a most astonishing achievement!

[Richard Barrett]

But no.

The inhabitants of the comet will no doubt be saying "bloody EU tourists, coming over 'ere, analysing our dust, who do they bloody think they are?"

[P. G. Tipps]

This morning the DM is apparently much more impressed with another 'historic' achievement which is 100% English, though it does appear to be looking backwards scientifically rather than forwards ... :-)

At the very least the newspaper's editorial staff do appear to have a keen sense of humour!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[Ferretfancy]

This morning the DM is apparently much more impressed with another 'historic' achievement which is 100% English, though it does appear to be looking backwards scientifically rather than forwards ... :-)

At the very least the newspaper's editorial staff do appear to have a keen sense of humour!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

They've always had a firm belief in social housing!!

[P. G. Tipps]

Actually they have now changed the headline slightly ... the original one started the house story with the words 'An Historic Achievement!' hence my reference to a keen S.O.H.

Maybe they subsequently thought that might open the door to even more ridicule than normal!

[JimD]

There is an astonishing sense of physicality about the event (apparently Philae bounced!), as judged from the comments of those involved and the pictures. Who'd have thought an object of this mass would have enough gravity to hold on to anything?

[ahinton]

The inhabitants of the comet will no doubt be saying "bloody EU tourists, coming over 'ere, analysing our dust, who do they bloody think they are?"

!!! Quite. And to think that some of them are from Darmstadt, too!...

As a matter of fact, my local pub's called The Comet (although I happen to call it something that rhymes therewith which, as it's not "Wallace and Gromit", I leave it to anyone to figure it out if so they choose); I don't think anything's landed on it lately although, remembering Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt's famous remark about the Royal Albert Hall, one might consider that to be something of a pity...

[Flosshilde]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

I'm not sure which of the many stories yopu could be referring to.


When I heard that the probe was 'sniffing' the comet the image of two dogs checking each other out sprang to mind :-)

[P. G. Tipps]

I'm not sure which of the many stories yopu could be referring to.


When I heard that the probe was 'sniffing' the comet the image of two dogs checking each other out sprang to mind :-)

You should get out of bed a bit earlier, Flosshilde.

The 'historic achievement' headline this morning now seems to have been consigned to the dustbin of history altogether.

Anyway, this was the story ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2832261/Truly-historic-couple-taught-plumbing-roof-tiling-16th-century-carpentry-build-Tudor-home-200-000-complete-low-ceilings-overhanging-floor.html

The following one is much better and nearly had me rolling on the floor ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2833016/Having-sexting-messages-public-like-mentally-raped-claims-ex-Tory-minister-Brooks-Newmark.html

[Serial_Apologist]

The question I want answered is: is the rock of which the comet is composed

a) Igneous
b) Metamorphic, or
c) Sedimentary.

Those are the only 3 categories of rock we were taught at school. Otherwise I reckon it's just a bit of old concrete paving slab nicked from next door's rock garden, set up against a computer-generated backdrop.

[teamsaint]

R

The question I want answered is: is the rock of which the comet is composed

a) Igneous
b) Metamorphic, or
c) Sedimentary.

Those are the only 3 categories of rock we were taught at school. Otherwise I reckon it's just a bit of old concrete paving slab nicked from next door's rock garden, set up against a computer-generated backdrop.

Sounds like a solid theory.....

[P. G. Tipps]

R

Sounds like a solid theory.....

Hmmm ... sounds more like a DM leading article to me ... :whistle:

[Serial_Apologist]

Hmmm ... sounds more like a DM leading article to me ... :whistle:

Doc Martins? That's the boot on the other lot...