Watch this great documentary relating the last hour of a 4,595–day journey of the unmanned space craft Rosetta to the Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) comet - Rosetta Grand Finale (It’s a little over an hour long.) I came across this video on the way to somewhere else and watched it through its controlled crash landing. By the time I finished watching, I was unable to recall what I was originally looking for.
The story is not exactly “breaking” news, but it’s worth watching.
The rest of the world seems to be passing us in science and technology. The European Space Agency (ESA) sends a spacecraft on a voyage of several billion kilometers and for the first time in human history crashes it on a comet. Our recent contributions to the world are Facebook, Twitter, Roundup, military pizza field rations[1], burpless cucumbers, instant grits, and Donald Trump.
I can still remember how disappointed I was when Congress shut down the Apollo project several missions before it was finished. It was inexplicable to me at the time, but now the pattern is obvious; war is more profitable than space exploration. Why go to the trouble and expense of discovering new worlds when you can make more money blowing up this one?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/army-pizza-mre-field-rations.html. The pizza is reputed to remain edible for three years. Could they be bringing back formaldehyde as a food preservative? ↩
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