Geeks Land (Anal) Probe On A Comet - Homeless People Everywhere Rejoice

[Kristy]

(Reuters) - The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet on Wednesday, a first in space exploration and the climax of a 10-year-odyssey, but an anchoring system problem may hamper planned investigations into the origins of Earth and the solar system.

http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/128/590x/secondary/Rosetta-space-craft-mission-probe-comet-220356.jpg
Rosetta reached the comet, a roughly 3-by-5 km rock discovered in 1969, in August after a journey of 6.4 billion km that took 10 years, five months and four days - a mission that cost close to 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion).

Meanwhile, with 1.8 BILLION spent to land of piece of shit on a space rock homeless people everywhere celebrate
http://pileofphotos.com/pics/pic_1177651480.jpg
"Yay! Says here 1.8 billion was put to good use."

[vandeleur]

Last week, the Pentagon told you the costs of the war on terror had eclipsed $1 trillion. Wednesday morning, a panel of academics experienced in war accounting says that's only a down payment — and that its real, total cost is around $5 trillion.

Sorry, we were trying to stop you lot spending everything on really useful shit :)

[ZahZoo]

Kristy, What are you implying?

We should stop all scientific exploration to feed and house a bunch of lazy assed, psychotic hobos..?

[Kristy]

Kristy, What are you implying?

We should stop all scientific exploration to feed and house a bunch of lazy assed, psychotic hobos..?

1. Anal probing comets is hardly "scientific exploration"

and

2. Fuck you.

[Kristy]

Sorry, we were trying to stop you lot spending everything on really useful shit :)

Why are you sorry? That's what the generation that came after me is for - to pay for all this shit.

[vandeleur]

Why are you sorry? That's what the generation that came after me is for - to pay for all this shit.

Cool :)

[FORD]

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/imgs/2014/141112-meet-the-men-in-charge-of-overseeing-us-science-policy-for-the-next-two-years.jpg

[Seshmeister]

Maybe James Ahole should try jumping out a building and see if God catches him...

[ashstralia]

Imagine all those trillions of $ were spent on making the world a better place.

[dazzlindino]

Imagine all those trillions of $ were spent on making the world a better place.

That is left to suicide bombers and mosques....

[dazzlindino]

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/imgs/2014/141112-meet-the-men-in-charge-of-overseeing-us-science-policy-for-the-next-two-years.jpg

pathetic phucxxs!!

[ZahZoo]

Imagine all those trillions of $ were spent on making the world a better place.

You don't have to stretch the imagination very hard to find the answer... there's about 1800 spin-off technologies that we use everyday that are a result of technologies developed by NASA for space flight that have been adapted into commercial products. Here's a few...


Artificial limbs
Baby formula
Cell-phone cameras
Computer mouse
Cordless tools
Ear thermometer
Firefighter gear
Freeze-dried food
Golf clubs
Long-distance communication
Invisible braces
MRI and CAT scans
Memory foam
Safer highways
Solar panels
Shoe insoles
Ski boots
Adjustable smoke detector
Water filters
UV-blocking sunglasses


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/everyday-items-developed-by-nasa-2012-8#ixzz3Ixi7w6zj

[ZahZoo]

1. Anal probing comets is hardly "scientific exploration"

and

2. Fuck you.

Did you have a bad experience involving your bum or are you just talking out your ass as usual?

[ashstralia]

My beer goggles fucked up my post, Zah man.
I meant to quote vandy's post #2, and was referring to the war $.
I'm all for pumping money into science!
:yo:

[ZahZoo]

You might be in need of new lenses in the old goggles... The newer models are quite stylish!!

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2009/8/27/1251369080832/Drinkaware-Beer-Goggles-a-001.jpg

[ashstralia]

Tee hee... :)

[Hardrock69]

There was a sci-fi killer robot movie made back in the 90s.....Lemmy had a bit part in it.....those look like something from that movie.

Yeah...THAT movie.

Yup.

:D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMs5M5sb6k

[Kristy]

Get your ghey shit out of my thread, Kirsten.

[Kristy]

Artificial limbs
Ghey

Baby formula
Refurbished rat poison

Cell-phone cameras
Great! So every time I want go to a concert I'll blame NASA for the fuckwitted idiot in front of holding up their shitty phone.

Computer mouse
That's a stretch

Cordless tools
That's vague, What kind of tools? What a waste of money. No one needed zero gravity for a god damn cordless vibrator

Ear thermometer
What was wrong with the rectal ones?

Firefighter gear
http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/emergency-kevin-tighe-randolph-mantooth.jpg
Space cowboys...betcha you weren't ready for that.

Freeze-dried food
In other words, obesity and Type II diabetes.

Golf clubs
I'm calling total shenanigans on that one.

Long-distance communication
"Houston...we have an annoying ATT girl that will not shut the fuck up."
http://i-cdn.phonearena.com/images/article/61267-image/This-iPhone-6-mind-reader-commercial-from-AT-T-is-funny-or-creepy-or-both.jpg
"I can suck up to 30g of dick for the same price as 10g."

Invisible braces
Not sure what that means.

MRI and CAT scans
Not that MRI/CAT machines weigh up to a fucking ton. Impractical (and ghey)

Memory foam
So people can remember their dreams. Touching.

Safer highways
That makes zero sense.

Solar panels
Buillshit.

Shoe insoles
And that has benefited mankind greatly

Ski boots
Yeah, nothing like hitting the slopes while in geosynchronous orbit, is there?

Adjustable smoke detector
Right, Because "adjustable smoke" itself was nothing more than another social ill before that point.

Water filters
https://img.4plebs.org/boards/pol/image/1386/13/1386138529693.jpg
That's just wrong

UV-blocking sunglasses
Did they also invent the Goodwill stores that sell those pieces of shit for $4.99?


Al those items are either ghey or in landfills fucking up the environment.

Nice try, Festus boy.

[ashstralia]

Ok Kranky Krustypants, that was pretty funny.

:biggrin:

[vandeleur]

Its ran out of power , apple need to sort this battery shit out :bigwink:

[DONNIEP]

1.8 billion dollars...and they still can't make a fucking Millennium Falcon..

[Hardrock69]

Krusty is just mad because his welfare check was canceled because the money was diverted to foreign aid to pay the ESA 1.8 billion dollars.

:D

[Nickdfresh]

...
"Yay! Says here 1.8 billion was put to good use."

What if it leads to technologies we would need to possibly deflect a near-Earth asteroid? Wouldn't that be "good use" my little bong residue girl?

[vandeleur]

The Philae lander has detected organic molecules on the surface of its comet, scientists have confirmed.

Carbon-containing "organics" are the basis of life on Earth and may give clues to chemical ingredients delivered to our planet early in its history.

The compounds were picked up by a German-built instrument designed to "sniff" the comet's thin atmosphere.

Other analyses suggest the comet's surface is largely water-ice covered with a thin dust layer.

Philae touched down on the Comet 67P on 12 November after a 10-year journey.

Dr Fred Goessmann, principal investigator on the Cosac instrument, which made the organics detection, confirmed the find to BBC News. But he added that the team was still trying to interpret the results.

It has not been disclosed which molecules have been found, or how complex they are.

But the results are likely to provide insights into the possible role of comets in contributing some of the chemical building blocks to the primordial mix from which life evolved on the early Earth.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30097648