By the time you read this, Rosetta will probably be miscellaneous broken parts on the surface of Comet 67P where she will join Philae after a mission which has continued for more than ten years. Likely there are people with the European Space Agency who have been supporting Rosetta for the entire period so this is likely to be a highly-emotional time for them. Maybe engineers were with them for another ten years before that as they designed and built her. It's conceivable some have spent much of their working lives with Rosetta.
Practically everyone watched and endured the suspense when Philae was lost and the ESA worked so hard to find her again with Philae trying all the while as she could to help. Philae would send status messages which were instantly humanized and we felt like one of us was up there and in trouble. She was the first one to land on a comet so that made her the 'bravest' little robot ever. This was such a grand tale of interplanetary anthropomorphization only Walt Disney could have done it better. It would have been cool if Thumper the Bunny turned up on the comet. Figure that out, Spaceman.
The Rosetta mission turned out to be one of the great successes in the long course of space flight and likely the biggest success for the ESA yet. The ESA scientists say they have captured enough data to keep them busy with analysis for years.
Maybe you're thinking, well, the engineers for Rosetta completed the build ten years or so ago ... so ... what are they building now. Maybe we should ask James Comey since he's good at predicting the future, isn't he.
There are some who probably say the research is worthless because they're only looking at rocks. The problem isn't so much that they say it but that you hang around with such unimaginative gollums long enough to hear them say it. Improve your collection of talking heads (i.e. abandon social networks) and fix that situation quickly.
Improving the collection of talking heads worked splendidly for Ithaka since I find the content more interesting now and I'm the only one I really have to amuse but readers respond well to it so I see the interest is more general than just my own.
China may be somewhat miffed at the attention Rosetta and Philae receive since China has accomplished exceptional things in its space program and in many ways they're the Number 2 Space Player since they have launched at least one space station and maybe have another one in orbit by now. For all that coolness, they only get grudging respect maybe because they're the 'dirty Commies' or some such but there's probably more Communism in Jill Stein's campaign headquarters than all of Asia.
Note: there's no negativity toward Jill Stein as the only point is I don't see a whole lot of repressive Communism in a nation obsessed with getting the latest iPhone 7.
Space is becoming exciting again because of the diversity of the research and exploration but tremendously more from the number of independent players.
SpaceX for 80% delivery vs 20% whackjobs
USA for 80% delivery vs 20% whackjobs
Bezos for 30% delivery vs 70% whackjobs
Note: USA is United Space Alliance which is owned by Lockheed Martin and Boeing and they get 80% because they gave us a splendid explosion in a launch from Virginia not so long ago. Elon Musk has no monopoly on expensive fireworks shows.
Bezos gets 70% for whackjobs since he's planned a monster of a rocket booster but there doesn't seem to be a strong plan for what to do with it. Launching something to Mars seems the obvious but there's relative quiet next to Musk who even gives us videos with his plans.
Gorgeous animation:
Lovely passion for the project from a variety of people:
She does a great job since it doesn't seem at all like she's just reading a script and she assumes you know the material. She also has some reasonable caution about a huge project. Most interesting and relatively short.
The full seminar:
Here at the Rockhouse, we're seeing a dream of Mars as the best Requiem Rosetta could ask.
Practically everyone watched and endured the suspense when Philae was lost and the ESA worked so hard to find her again with Philae trying all the while as she could to help. Philae would send status messages which were instantly humanized and we felt like one of us was up there and in trouble. She was the first one to land on a comet so that made her the 'bravest' little robot ever. This was such a grand tale of interplanetary anthropomorphization only Walt Disney could have done it better. It would have been cool if Thumper the Bunny turned up on the comet. Figure that out, Spaceman.
The Rosetta mission turned out to be one of the great successes in the long course of space flight and likely the biggest success for the ESA yet. The ESA scientists say they have captured enough data to keep them busy with analysis for years.
Maybe you're thinking, well, the engineers for Rosetta completed the build ten years or so ago ... so ... what are they building now. Maybe we should ask James Comey since he's good at predicting the future, isn't he.
There are some who probably say the research is worthless because they're only looking at rocks. The problem isn't so much that they say it but that you hang around with such unimaginative gollums long enough to hear them say it. Improve your collection of talking heads (i.e. abandon social networks) and fix that situation quickly.
Improving the collection of talking heads worked splendidly for Ithaka since I find the content more interesting now and I'm the only one I really have to amuse but readers respond well to it so I see the interest is more general than just my own.
China may be somewhat miffed at the attention Rosetta and Philae receive since China has accomplished exceptional things in its space program and in many ways they're the Number 2 Space Player since they have launched at least one space station and maybe have another one in orbit by now. For all that coolness, they only get grudging respect maybe because they're the 'dirty Commies' or some such but there's probably more Communism in Jill Stein's campaign headquarters than all of Asia.
Note: there's no negativity toward Jill Stein as the only point is I don't see a whole lot of repressive Communism in a nation obsessed with getting the latest iPhone 7.
Space is becoming exciting again because of the diversity of the research and exploration but tremendously more from the number of independent players.
SpaceX for 80% delivery vs 20% whackjobs
USA for 80% delivery vs 20% whackjobs
Bezos for 30% delivery vs 70% whackjobs
Note: USA is United Space Alliance which is owned by Lockheed Martin and Boeing and they get 80% because they gave us a splendid explosion in a launch from Virginia not so long ago. Elon Musk has no monopoly on expensive fireworks shows.
Bezos gets 70% for whackjobs since he's planned a monster of a rocket booster but there doesn't seem to be a strong plan for what to do with it. Launching something to Mars seems the obvious but there's relative quiet next to Musk who even gives us videos with his plans.
Gorgeous animation:
Lovely passion for the project from a variety of people:
She does a great job since it doesn't seem at all like she's just reading a script and she assumes you know the material. She also has some reasonable caution about a huge project. Most interesting and relatively short.
The full seminar:
Here at the Rockhouse, we're seeing a dream of Mars as the best Requiem Rosetta could ask.
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