Reminder: Rosetta Comet Landing Today about 10:40am EST

Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 6 months ago to Science
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    K&E or Post, most likely -- I still have my K&E
    electric eraser which I used as a draftsman in
    the 60s, and a 6 inch Post slide rule. . good stuff! -- j

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  • Posted by jimslag 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I did not finish my Chemical Engineering degree but everything was done on a nice white slide rule. I don't remember the manufacturer but I can still picture it in my mind.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    my best friend has recently been the subject of an
    extraordinary thing -- he had no symptoms, but
    was told that he had an aortic aneurism, received
    a four-hour surgery and we're now in PT. he has
    the symptoms, now!

    I wonder if he might just have been used by the
    doctors and medical teams as a source of income,
    since the medicare payments don't occur without
    a patient. -- j

    p.s. he has never been shown an MRI or Xray,
    not the first ultrasound, no blown artery tissue
    removed ... very strange. I'm going through PT
    with him, since I have emphysema and the
    programs are essentially the same. . . when
    I had vein-stripping surgery, I saw the old vein!

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I got my 1st engr degree with a 10 inch yellow
    pickett slide rule -- got 4 digits from it! -- j

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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 6 months ago
    this is wonderful -- and the u.s. is asleep, using
    nasa scientists to promote muslim outreach. -- j

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  • Posted by jimslag 9 years, 6 months ago
    As I was growing up, I also wanted to be part of the space exploration. My uncle worked for Burrough's Computer Company and was on loan to NASA back in the late 60's and early 70's. I got to visit my aunt and uncle in Florida during the Apollo shots and got to see some of those moon shots. From there it was to Pax River and he was on a tracking ship for those space flights. It was an awesome time and I got to see more in person than most of that the average child saw on television. The engineers were my heroes, they were the people who made things work and I got to see that up close. I still marvel at what the engineers did without the benefits of modern computer systems and technology. A lot of those calculations were done on slide rules and a lot of paper pads and chalk boards, no white boards back then. Some of our most technological advancements were framed back then and the names of those engineers are famous in certain circles.
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  • Posted by j_IR1776wg 9 years, 6 months ago
    I love these people. I wanted to be an astrophysicist when I was a kid. Life didn't work out that way.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago
    So far no video except of bureaucrats and looters celebrating the engineers accomplishments.
    Without any actual video from the comet, do I believe these chronic liars and sociopaths?

    they keep repeating how it took all the countries together to do this.
    Sounds like propaganda to support the thieves in Brussels and their bankster masters.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 6 months ago
    Live video of landing at about 10:40am per the on stage moderator. Until then interviews of scientists and technicians working on the project.
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