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    Default Rosetta awakes

    The Rosetta space probe was launched in 2004 with the aim of ten years later managing to land on a comet and take samples as it orbited around the sun. In those ten years, it has made several orbits of the Earth to pick up speed before being flung out to near the orbit of Jupiter. After a few years, it was put into hibernation and left to drift with the hope that it would one day wake up and begin its final approach to carry out its mission.

    And ten years later, that time is now.

    Late on Monday, the probe sent its first signal back to Earth after waking from hibernation, only a mere 800m miles from home. And now ESA can try to carry out its pretty impressive plan of trying to place a lander on a comet, which should hopefully take place sometime in August.

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    God bless 'em! Hope it works.

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    And that there aren't any space vampires on the comet.

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    I hope the landing goes smoothly and we get back some excellent data.

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    And that there aren't any space vampires on the comet.
    What a strange but fun movie that was.

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    Dunno that one. Which was it?

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    Lifeforce.

    Well worth seeing, if only for Mathilda May.

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    Heard of it but never saw it. And I just learned that Patrick Stewart was in it!: http://24.media.tumblr.com/a0288dedd...etbio1_500.jpg

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    Despite a lot of evidence to the contrary, I am pleasantly astonished by how clever we can be.

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