Rosetta arrives at comet, Philae soon to land

[aaronfransen]

Kinda makes one think that maybe Wal Thornhill is right, eh? Not ice? Rock maybe?

 

[Persej]

Kinda makes one think that maybe Wal Thornhill is right, eh? Not ice? Rock maybe?

It seems that things are going in that direction. For now we wait for more data.

My question would be: how important were the 20% which they didn't complete? Because if 80% of the experiments were similar to previous and the other 20% would be most revealing, then actually, it has been a bit of a let down.

I guess these failures should be expected though since the model they're working on doesn't incorporate the findings mentioned in the 'electric universe'. The last i heard, it had 'gone to sleep' (interesting wording), and had not 'recharged' once. Just my thoughts.

He had two batteries, one precharged that he used for those 80% of experiments that did not require much mechanical movement, and second smaller one that is supposed to be recharged by solar cells. Recharging din't work so they had to choose experiments that didn't requre much energy.

 

[axj]

The latest news from the drilling experiment is that the comet is covered by about 20 cm of dust/sand and then the drill encountered something hard into which it could drill only a few millimeters. So of course, they think it is ice or a mix of ice and rock.

They also managed to turn the lander a little bit more towards the sun. Apparently, the loading of the battery may happen much sooner because of this - maybe even within weeks, instead of March 2015 as they said before.

 

[mkrnhr]

Yes, they still don't want to acknowledge the possibility of a rocky comet. The reason they insist on snow/ice is that comet spectra in general show lots of water. The mechanism of the production of water as an interaction between rock's oxygen with solar wind's protons (hydrogen) has been acknowledged elsewhere, like here _http://www.universetoday.com/97997/the-moons-water-comes-from-the-sun/ but planetary scientists still espouse the idea that water must come from the core of the comet (dirty snowball model).

This is a account of the technical difficulties they went through with the lander, which may point to some electrical interference with the instruments that weren't expected: _http://www.mps.mpg.de/3086295/Philae_Blog1

 

[mkrnhr]

Here is a presentation by W. Thornhill on the Rosetta mission and the cognitive dissonance we have witnessed. The volume of the video is low.

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[casper]

Philae comet could be home to alien life, say scientists
Quote from the article:
Astronomers say features of comet landed on by spacecraft in November, such as black crust and icy lakes, suggest living micro-organisms beneath surface.
Organisms containing anti-freeze salts could be active at temperatures as low as -40C, their research shows.


Link:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/06/philae-comet-could-be-home-to-alien-life-say-top-scientists

 

[Ca.]

Short film of Comet 67P made from 400,000 Rosetta images is released
by Ahmed Kabil on September 12th, 02019
On August 6, 02014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe successfully reached Comet 67P. In addition to studying the comet, Rosetta was able to place one of Long Now’s Rosetta Disks on its surface via its Philae lander.

In 02017, ESA released over 400,000 images from the Rosetta mission. Now, motion designer Christian Stangl has made a short film out of the images.

The Comet offers a remarkable, beautiful, and haunting look at this alien body from the Kuiper belt. Watch it below:

 

[Ca.]

Two interesting concepts (Cryogenic PHASED-ARRAY RADARE), for Space Surveillance. And the Synoptic Survey Telescope Project, (as in Chile).

GESTRA – New space surveillance capabilities in Germany
Nov. 20 2019 / 4:36

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1197248245916979205

Rafael Rebolo, director of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands, revealed this week that a building permit has been approved for the possible construction of the costly Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) there in the event that officials are unable to build the device in Hawaii.