ChesusRice
Well-Known Member
The wait might be something with aligning antenna or burst transmissions.Because Rosetta/Philae...
failed? The ESA has been peculiarly silent since having problems getting the harpoons to "fire" (something tells me that is code for "we fucked up in thinking this was a ball of frozen, primordial soup, instead of a gawd-damned piece of a MOUNTAIN"). Saying now "we'll know more tomorrow". As someone elsewhere poignantly asked, "Why do we have to wait? Is it night-time on the comet or something?"
I don't know, though. We'll all know more in about 16 hours when they finally decide to give us another "update" (unless they postpone it...again).
But I won't be surprised to find the mission was a 10-year long PhD thesis flushed down the toilet.
Sometimes it takes great failures to shake the paradigm into submission, as opposed to great success.
The probe is still sending valuable info