WATCH Rosetta's Philae's SUCCESSFUL drop on Comet 67P

Brace for action, comet-watchers! Today's the day that the Rosetta craft successfully dropped the probing Philae lander on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The European Space Agency (ESA) said Rosetta will make its last pre-drop burn at 0630 GMT. At around 1605GMT the ESA confirmed they had "telemetry" as Philae …

[Anonymous Coward]

Fascinating viewing

Especially the cleaner emptying the bins. That's the sort of detail that NASA always missed.

[PleebSmash]

Re: Fascinating viewing

Got to love the music mix though

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Fascinating viewing

Got to love the music mix though

There's nothing quite like a bit of jazz in a Belgian stylee.

[Anonymous Coward]

Need to cross fingers AND toes now

Shame to hear that the thruster designed to press Philae down and prevent rebound is u/s, so we now have to hope that the harpoons do hit something soft enough to dig into and hold on. Stress levels in the operations centre are going to be through the roof by 16:00! Good luck to them all!

[Graham 24]

Obligatory XKCD reference

Looks like XKCD is doing a "live" stream too...

http://www.xkcd.com/1446/

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Obligatory XKCD reference

heh ... looks rather the same atm as the esa "livestream" on/in my browser[1]... :-(

[1] I.e. almost always frozen, retrying, restuck, no sound.

[Stumpy]

Re: Obligatory XKCD reference

Damn ... I now /really/ hope we find whales on there. :)

[SpikyDave]

Is anyone there?

It's practically deserted in there. Have they all gone outside for a better view?

[Neil Barnes]

Just one thing, guys -

Try not to break it, right?

[Sarev]

Riveting

The ESA live feed is truly shambolic. They've had 10 *years* to script eight hours of content... muppets.

P.s. Thanks for the xkcd link!

[JassMan]

The feed on the BBC seems better

until a milllion other people make the same discovery

http://www.bbc.com/news/live/science-environment-29985988

or until i post this whichever comes first

[Crysknife007]

Ambient Sleep Sound

I'm so excited about the landing that I decided to make a sleep aid video out of EM emissions from the comet in tribute to the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA_J_3xyt8g&list=UUF6R1ZDskjCeBMomUGCtxXw

[DropBear]

Aaaaand once again....

...some numpty decided there's no way more than seven people will show up to watch the live broadcast, hence I'm looking at a black rectangle. Bravo...

[Cripes Chief!]

Bam - It's done! Congrats

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly faked, you can see how the shadows from the chairs all point in different directions.

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So does this count as ownership of a comet now ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that "Limits to Growth" out the window ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Great now they've got one up there they can send a second one to get some much needed touchdown footage.