Rosetta awakens, does great job, crashed, job done.

[gethinceri]

Fair play, once they'd got the studio lighting sorted they did make it look quite convincing.

 

[Incubus]

You know the way your eyes end up playing tricks on you when you' re affected by insomnia?...

 

[Greenlantern101]

Mission over. Goodby Rosetta and Philae it's been fun.

 

[vintly]

Bless its copper sockets

 

[FB]

So, not fed up with dropping trash all over our own planet we are now littering objects far, far away in space. Unless all the Sci-Fi films I've watched over the years have been lying to me aren't all spaceships fitted with a self destruct sequence? Can't they blow it up once it has hit the surface?

 

[cousinDave]

So, not fed up with dropping trash all over our own planet we are now littering objects far, far away in space.

Haven't we already done that with Beagle 2 and numerous others before that?

 

[Titch]

Bye bye Rosie.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Amended the thread title.

 

[gethinceri]

So, not fed up with dropping trash all over our own planet we are now littering objects far, far away in space. Unless all the Sci-Fi films I've watched over the years have been lying to me aren't all spaceships fitted with a self destruct sequence? Can't they blow it up once it has hit the surface?

There's a warehouse in the Nevada desert that's collecting all that rubbish for you FB.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Saddest loss of an inanimate space object since I watched one of the little robots die in the film: Silent Running - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[gethinceri]

Is that the one with the bobsleigh?

 

[Incubus]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the impact of crash-landing the probe onto the comet' s surface resulted in an unaccounted-for orbital change that ultimately knocked it onto a colision course with the earth and smashed bang into ESA' s headquarters before annihilating us all? I' d be laughing my arse off on the other side of my face if that happened. Literally.