I imagine some form of engineering went in to their decisions, as well as financial considerations. Just a guess
They should've sent a gundam... just sayin, a gundam wouldn't have to deal with solar energy or burning up if it gets too close to the sun!
This is correct. They took a shopping cart from nearby shop by utilizing 50c coin from their budget. Then they threw in a car battery from a banged up car for free, bought a photovoltaic panel from discount shop for 199,90€. Then they bought 2 rolls of aluminium foil and 3 metal clothes hangers and some duct tape for 19,90€. The actual engineering was one weekend when they all got together in ESA's garage and put it all together. Budget included 100 pizzas that cost 1.000€ and the total beer spent cost 5.000€. (it's a big garage and lots of people) When it was all together they put it on top of a spare Ariane 5 they found behind the garage and fired it away with gutt feel. The whole thing cost 6.220,30€ and then they later added in the salaries and the cost of Ariane 5. But yea, I totally get that a nuclear reactor couldn't fit their budget, it's not as if they could've strapped 3-4 Ariane 5's together with duct tape and launched a bigger probe.
So many of our problems would be solved with gundams. Japan, stop hoarding the technology! Give us the Gundams now!
Rosetta's Final Conversation With Philae Is Heart-Meltingly Human Source: http://blogs.discovery.com/inscider...utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ScienceChannel
This reminds me of my second lunar mission in Kerbal. For odd reason no archives or data exists of first mission, the only reference to it is that the first known mission is still known as second lunar mission. Landing was successful but as the kerbonaut was exiting the lander the lander accidentally tipped over and couldn't be lifted back up thus stranding the first kerbonaut to officially land on it's surface. Great step and as is common with doing new things for the first time unexpected things happen. I was more afraid of the lander just breaking apart due to sudden error or miscalculation. Joking aside, successful landing and being able to collect data from surface are great achievements.
While I was incredibly excited about this discovery, what really made my next year was this: Holy FUCKING FUCK! WHAT?! Does mankind have a future, after all? Alpha Centauri seems increasingly like a real possibility. If there were no other reason to colonize this galaxy it would be to get as far away from kardashinianians as possible. It's not like they'd be interested the distances make it impossibly to post selfies.
Another comet surface shot: and actually, I'm curious if this is in black and white or if it's really just that gray? Also a more in depth look of how it landed! Damn I wish the harpoons worked... cause harpooning a comet woulda been just awesome. in the top right of this one you can see it in the shadow of some damned ridge.
Further evidence that most people who give even half a fuck about Kim either don't understand how to use a keyboard, or have all the keys stuck together.
In full color comets and asteroids tend to look like that. They're mostly burnt up dust on the surface. Some don't even have a solid structure but are essentially a heap of dust and various sized rocks that are kept together by low gravity, some objects may be largely made of ice and dirt. Sometimes they can have a larger rock forming the core but dust and small rocks are usually found on top.
In related news, a UK team is crowdsourcing funds for a lunar mission to determine if a base can be established on the south pole. BBC Story Lunar Mission One
Nice, so we got 2 companies setting up space industry by mining and processing asteroids and their resources, we got a team working on colonization of Mars and another planning colonization of Moon. Not bad, considering that not a single government gives a fuck.
If the entirety of the human race put its combined resources and technology together we could have already colonized space by now. But no. We rather fight over fucking resources, screwing the economy in the ass till it bleeds to death, corporate greed and corruption, terrorist ass clowns, and spend hundreds of billions of dollars on fucking illegal drugs that go to cartels, I can go on.
We spend enormous resources on pure vanity, build our societies to produce misery and don't recycle almost any of our resources. We also neglect all the abundant resources provided by Sun and the asteroids surrounding Earth. We don't even try to educate all humans much less find the most intelligent ones and allow them to pursue science. No, it is absolutely more important to create social classes that look after their own asses and who'd rather have police and military murder people than allow lower classes to compete for seats of science. I'm not even saying the poor should have the possibility to rise to power, merely that they'd be allowed to become scientists if they were the best choice.
