Landing on a Comet - What's really going on here?

#Philae #Rosetta

Yesterday at 15:34 UTC, The Human race touched down on Comet 67P 

Philae lands on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

At this point in the week, we have seen our fill of headlines talking about the landing, the control room crowd cheering dramatically about how it was such a success, and mission accomplished, and this historical science experiment was oh so wonderful, and ground breaking and epic event...

....and blah blah blah blah blah

Let me be the first to say this truly was a truly "epic" event... I mean landing on an asteroid is something that has never been done yet so i guess you can say it is "historically epic".





However at this point in time "what is really going on here", is this Rosetta mission is leaning more and more towards being an "Epic FAIL"!

Routine landing on Mars

Seriously...

Up to this point in the mission, everything that they have accomplished thus far, has already been accomplished multiple times!

Years and years ago for that matter!

Launching an unmanned spacecraft into the cosmos and reaching it's calculated destination, followed with the deploying of another smaller craft that descends and reaches the surface of an unexplored area in space is not epic...

IT'S ROUTINE!!!

...and this time it was a waste of millions and millions of dollars, time and effort!

Why?

Because what the mission was supposedly about is not going to be accomplished for one specific reason...

The Failed Landing

Sure it touched down, but not any where near it should have.

Scientists calculated that the lander would hit the hard surface and bounce into position, securing itself to the surface of the comet, in an open area that allows almost 8 hours of direct sunlight.

Philae is sitting in a postion that will eventually kill it.

It did not...

What was miscalculated is now a known fact; the surface of the comet was softer than anticipated.

The equivalent of dropping a rock into a pile of sand.

In other words, the lander hit the giant asteroid at a wrong angle and sank itself into what scientists are now reporting "unsecured position".

The current positioning would not allow the lander to deploy its grounding mechanisms and it will not attach itself to the surface of the rock.

Not a very good start!

The next problem is the location of the lander.

It is positioned in a secluded area, next to a cliff, that casts a shadow, only allowing an hour of direct sunlight to charge its batteries.

What that means is the million dollar solar panels are blocked from getting maximum sunlight to recharge its multi-million dollar, battery operated technology.

Reports at this point in time are stating that the lander is currently attempting to use it's last bars of battery life to drill into the surface in an attempt to collect samples of the comet, with hopes of retrieval and molecular analysis.

But there is an incurable problem with this action...

The agency has stated that the billion dollar contraption is in an awkward position that will more than likely not allow excessive drilling into the surface of the comet.

There is only one reason to target an asteroid!

I guess they called in the wrong drill team to complete the mission...

In simpler terms...

The little bit of drilling taking place at this time will more than likely cause Philae to flat-line.

Fact of it all is, the scientists leading this potentially failed effort may not even receive any analysis, let alone receive any new data, because the batteries will die before Philae can analyze the samples and be unable to transmit the data back to Earth.


If that is the case than that leaves only one word to describe this entire mission...

FAILED

Do you think that life existed or does exisst on Mars?

Personally, I feel that the funds wasted in this project should have been used in further exploring Mars or the moon.

There is already a mountain of evidence revealing that the red planet and even the moon already have exactly what they claim they are looking for. Not to mention all of the inexplicable images of life in the past and extraterrestrial exploration. (but that's a whole different story)

Yet they waste a fortune on exploring an asteroid?

Doesn't it make more sense to further explore areas that have already established that they need to be further explored?



Many questions are raised with -NO- answers up to this point....

Why did they really attempt to explore an comet?

Why didn't they return to the moon?

Why are they wasting time and money on an comet they will never visit again?

Why didn't they use the funds to promote and start training for a manned mission to Mars?

"The Truth is Out There"

Why are they stalling further exploration of Mars?

What are they really hiding from mankind?

And last but not least, we come back to the title of this article...

What's really going on here?


We will only know what they choose to tell us...

So in conclusion of this media crazed scientific wonder, what mankind may only have achieved is a mulit-million dollar, golden hunk of junk just sitting on a rock for the rest of eternity.

Epic... right?

So epic that mankind may have just wasted millions of dollars, time and efforts for a few digital images that probably could have been taken from Kepler, and will have produced nothing but an entire cabinet full of useless documents, as well as never to be seen again video, describing a mission that should have probably never happened in the first place!

Lets hope this is never a scenerio

We will know if this is the case in the next few hours....


Gerry Dailey
The UnionXpress

After thought: The only reason to approach an asteroid, comet, or meteor would be to detour it from totally annihilating Earth!