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2014/11/18 04:35:04
Subject: Re:Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
easysauce wrote: so, show scantly clad women on your shirt, you are sexist.
be a scantly clad woman, and you are somehow fighting the oppressors?
If only there was a concept that could help us handle this situation. Oh yes, there is: professional work environment. Seriously, is it really hard to see the difference between wearing a borderline-porn shirt to work and wearing revealing clothing in your personal life?
Apparently ESA cares more about actual results than wearing shirts that meet your criteria. I'm sure someone of your intellect could easily find a job working there and work your way up to top management and then improve their working environment. Maybe your first email can even be 'dear staff, dress in black armani all the time'
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2014/11/18 06:39:42
Subject: Re:Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
easysauce wrote: so, show scantly clad women on your shirt, you are sexist.
be a scantly clad woman, and you are somehow fighting the oppressors?
If only there was a concept that could help us handle this situation. Oh yes, there is: professional work environment. Seriously, is it really hard to see the difference between wearing a borderline-porn shirt to work and wearing revealing clothing in your personal life?
its not border line porn... and since when do women only wear revealing clothing in their personal lives? women wear skirts that reveal leg, tops that reveal cleavage, all acceptable work attire in the most professional of offices, at other jobs, far less is required.
in fact, the exact attire on this guys shirt is work wear for women at things like bars and strip clubs.
Businesses make up their own dress codes, they dont need you making them up for them, hes wearing a shirt with G rated cartoon characters on it.
Dont make non issues, into issues, and according to the ladies, you are not allowed to make a space conversation into a feminist issue one.
2014/11/18 07:56:40
Subject: Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
If people want to discuss the fashion sense of people involved with the mission, please start your own thread on it. And if you do, keep it clean. This is the one warning.
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I wish I had time for all the game systems I own, let alone want to own...
2014/11/18 23:02:58
Subject: Re:Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
It's only a conspiracy theory if it isn't the truth! *Adds more foil to hat*
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2014/11/19 01:18:57
Subject: Re:Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
"BERLIN (Reuters) - European comet lander Philae 'sniffed' organic molecules containing the carbon element that is the basis of life on Earth before its primary battery ran out and it shut down, German scientists said."
Cool!
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Do you play 30k? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.
2014/11/19 01:27:41
Subject: Re:Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
"BERLIN (Reuters) - European comet lander Philae 'sniffed' organic molecules containing the carbon element that is the basis of life on Earth before its primary battery ran out and it shut down, German scientists said."
Cool!
Sure, "its battery ran out", yeah.
It's obviously up there getting high on comet dust and tripping out.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2014/11/19 01:50:51
Subject: Landing attempt on a comet: ESA's Rosetta mission
Before going into hibernation in the early hours of 15 November 2014, the Philae lander was able to conduct experiments and return its data to Earth. In this blog post we look at the preliminary analysis conducted by the lander’s Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface Science instrument package, MUPUS.
MUPUS began observing the environment around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko once Philae was released from the Rosetta orbiter at 08:35 GMT on 12 November (this is spacecraft time; the signal confirming separation arrived at Earth just over 28 minutes later, at 09:03 GMT).
The first touchdown recorded by Philae occurred at 15:34 GMT (with the signal arriving on Earth at 16:03 GMT), but it later transpired that the harpoons and ice screws did not deploy as planned and the lander subsequently rebounded, experiencing two further touchdowns, at 17:25 and 17:32 GMT (spacecraft time), respectively.
Because part of the MUPUS package was contained in the harpoons, some temperature and accelerometer data could not be gathered. However, the MUPUS thermal mapper, located on the body of the lander, worked throughout the descent and during all three touchdowns.
At Philae’s final landing spot, the MUPUS probe recorded a temperature of –153°C close to the floor of the lander’s balcony before it was deployed. Then, after deployment, the sensors near the tip cooled by about 10°C over a period of roughly half an hour.
“We think this is either due to radiative transfer of heat to the cold nearby wall seen in the CIVA images or because the probe had been pushed into a cold dust pile,” says Jörg Knollenberg, instrument scientist for MUPUS at DLR.
The probe then started to hammer itself into the subsurface, but was unable to make more than a few millimetres of progress even at the highest power level of the hammer motor.
“If we compare the data with laboratory measurements, we think that the probe encountered a hard surface with strength comparable to that of solid ice,” says Tilman Spohn, principal investigator for MUPUS.
Looking at the results of the thermal mapper and the probe together, the team have made the preliminary assessment that the upper layers of the comet’s surface consist of dust of 10–20 cm thickness, overlaying mechanically strong ice or ice and dust mixtures.
At greater depths, the ice likely becomes more porous, as the overall low density of the nucleus – determined by instruments on the Rosetta orbiter – suggests.
Looking to the future, Tilman Spohn says, “MUPUS could be used again if we get enough power. Then we could perform direct observations of the layer that the probe is standing in and see how it evolves as we get closer to the Sun.”
While the full analyses of the lander’s multiple touchdowns and the data collected during descent and landing are on-going, the Rosetta orbiter continues its science mission at Comet 67P/C-G. Over the next year it will follow the comet as it draws ever nearer to the Sun, watching how its surface and surrounding environment evolves.
About MUPUS
The thermal probe of MUPUS was originally developed at the Institute of Planetology of the University of Münster together with the Space Research Centre in Warsaw and other international partners. It is maintained and operated by an international team led by the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin
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