No doubt that the UFO believers amongst the people living inside that comet must have a "Hey I told you so!"-party-day! :D

Their leaders maybe negotiate meanwhile whether to launch their nuclear missiles at the intruder's point of origin. :-?

And a face-hugger inside its egg wonders: "Heck, what was that? We better check it out."

Great, they can calibrate a probe to land on an object 300 million miles away, but the GPS in the car keeps saying "recalculating"...


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Apparently the picture I posted above was just one frame of an animated comic:

http://i.imgur.com/M4wa8Ed.gif

Frame by frame version here: http://xkcd1446.org/#142

^Hah, that's cool. :) Philae's twitter is pretty cool too: https://twitter.com/philae2014

First photo from the comet:
http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/i...to_a_comet.jpg

She's definitely on a bit of a wonk there, but at least she's not upside down. :yep:

The main question to be answered at the moment though is, is there enough sunlight to power her? :hmmm:

Jobe well done ESA.

Next decision will be whether to attempt re-positioning or get as much info as possible before doing so.

I go for the latter.

Philae has gone to sleep after sending several hours of data stream to Rosetta.

http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/i...er_625x396.jpg

Goodnight Philae...and thank you. :salute:

This remarkable mission must be winding down. It seems the emphasis on the story has shifted to one of the mission physicists choice in tacky shirts.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30055278

He should borrow Bill Murray's line from Ghostbusters; "Back off man, I'm a scientist."

http://i.embed.ly/1/display/resize?k...EXCMAEsUzo.png

http://www.oocities.org/emperor_silu...h/flash130.jpg

PHILAE'S ALIVE!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885

Welcome back, Philae!

Philae has woken up
 

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885

Awesome news.

Aye, truly amazing :sunny:

Great. Let Philae have a bit of a yawn and stretch, then get busy beaming more pictures to us. Did they manage to right her previously?

Amazing stuff :sunny:

I didn't see the Rosetta thread. Mods please feel free to merge this thread or delete.

Epic cuteness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33zw...ature=youtu.be

Threads merged.

It seems to be in better shape than could have hoped for. I was afraid that even in the event of reestablishing contact it would be crippled in power/functionality, but according to the press release "The lander is ready for operations." Amazing how resilient these plucky mechanical explorers we send out can be.

Once upon a time... Living with a comet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szyq33W-GvI

PS. Anyone watched that cartoon as a kid, "Once upon a time..."? Loved it! :yep:

Rosetta's mission will come to an end this Friday as it tries to land on the comet.

Once upon a time... Rosetta's grand finale

Well done, ESA! :salute: