ESA probe lands on comet

I would just like to use this entry to send my hearty congratulations to the European space agency. I just got in from my daily roll, and, being interested in such matters, turned on the tv to see how their probe was doing. To tell the truth, I rather expected to hear the dissapointing news that it had crashed, yet, incredibly, it has touched down safely. When you look at the technical detail, it really is a remarkable feat; as someone who sometimes struggles to park his wheelchair in its correct place of an evening, I am in awe of what the ESA has apparently achieved today. And, as they point out, we stand to learn so much from this mission. This is quite a historic day, all things considered – time to sit back and wait for the data to roll in, hopefully telling us something about the origins of life on our own planet.

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