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I had no idea this was happening. Pretty cool.
I’m on the surface
Yay!
but my harpoons did not fire. My team is hard at work now trying to determine why.
Oh noes!!
It's certainly very interesting. Space is mankind's future whether we like it or not, so it's always a huge step when we do something we've never done there before. At this point, landing on a comet was probably the best and smartest next step to take in space travel, but I'd be lying if I said there weren't discoveries in space I'd like to see explored and studied much more than comets.
Yeah. It's a real shame how little funding space exploration, and science in general receives. According to Wikipedia, ESA's annual budget is just €4.28 billion, while NASA got €13.56 in 2013. Chump change, in both cases... We could have done that manned flight to Mars 20 years ago, and who knows what we'd be up to by now with the proper funding?
I’m on the surface
Yay!
but my harpoons did not fire. My team is hard at work now trying to determine why.
Oh noes!!
It's certainly very interesting. Space is mankind's future whether we like it or not, so it's always a huge step when we do something we've never done there before. At this point, landing on a comet was probably the best and smartest next step to take in space travel, but I'd be lying if I said there weren't discoveries in space I'd like to see explored and studied much more than comets.
Yeah. It's a real shame how little funding space exploration, and science in general receives. According to Wikipedia, ESA's annual budget is just €4.28 billion, while NASA got €13.56 in 2013. Chump change, in both cases... We could have done that manned flight to Mars 20 years ago, and who knows what we'd be up to by now with the proper funding?
