SPACE the FINAL FRONTIER: These are the images of COMET PROBE ROSETTA The European Space Agency (ESA) has released details of the first bushel of studies derived from the Rosetta spacecraft's visit to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The journal Science has devoted a special issue to seven studies of the comet, but let's do a summary here. For starters, boffins have decided that 67P is fluffy, …
Still awed by what our scientists can achieve when they put their minds to it!
Now could all scientists in the defence industry please start working on projects like this, instead of wasting their brainpower on ways to destruct other humans? Imagine what we can achieve then!
Yeah, I realise that we got lots of benefits from the "war effort"...
My point is, if all those clever chaps who are inventing stuff for the war machine could apply their minds full time to ideas that are not primarily designed to kill/destroy others, we would be much further in the world!
How big a percentage of the stuff invented for the military has benefited humankind in general? I reckon maybe, if we're lucky, a 2 digit percentage figure... so there's still lots of brain power wasted on war and destruction!
And let the down votes roll on... I'm not here to score brownie points, but simply want to comment on what I see in this world!
Indeed - the indisputable fact that many technical advances have taken place under or in preparation for military conflicts hardly means that investment in so-called «military research» is required to produce such advantages ; the implication doesn't hold. We waste untold resources on research to find ever new, ever more effective ways of murdering our fellows, while, if possible, holding down casualties on our side. There is no evidence to support the rather odd notion that technical advances can't be produced by direct investment in projects that do not have as their main objective better methods for killing the designated «enemy»....
Henri
There's also a funny smell about the place.
The plane lands miles from where you expected it to. And despite expecting hot weather, you find that it's just getting sunnier and sunnier all the time, until you feel like you're going to melt.
The remaining regions haven't been light enough to snap since Rosetta arrived last year.
Perhaps they should have paid extra for the camera with the built-in flash. Yes, I know, weight constraints and all that, but everyone knows from Hollywood that pretty pictures trump real science and engineering every day.
Then are flashes meant for aerial night time recon flights. They've been superseded by night vision systems, radar, and whatnot, but if you want to snap some pics of a comet from kilometers away, this might actually fit on a space probe. The reflector and flash are, I think, a manageable mass, while the capacitor banks could stand a diet plan from modern electrical engineers.
http://blog.invention.smithsonian.org/2013/11/04/seeing-in-the-dark-aerial-recon-in-wwii/
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