A certain modest north county brewer worked on Rosetta some time back
We all have our fingers crossed that the Rosetta Mission is completed successfully !
Or should I say ... the NCB Rosetta Mission ;D
Live updates... (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Live_updates_Rosetta_mission_comet_landing)
Touchdown :)
NCB First club to land on a comet.
Im sure they will find something unexpected there
"ESA is shock at finding a bottle on the comet, it appears to be homebrew"
Mr Anomymous wouldnt go that far without some homebrew !
Awesome!
What can I say "we did it" !! Awesome achievement by Europe.
I first started work on Philae systems in Jan 2000 and ncontinued with the lander and other Rosetta systems until September 2003.
We launched in 2004 and then it was a 10 year wait!
Hard to believe that 10 years has gone by!
PS: There might just be a recipe onboard! Couldn't pop a bottle on tho' for weight reasons.
Here's to the science data!
When I read "Rosetta Mission" I thought it was a bunch of nuns going to Africa or something :P Nice surprise to learn that it's scientist's advancing our knowledge instead.
Fair fúcks Will :)
Congrats Will! A better job than the French GPS satellites in the wrong orbit!
well done , is there nothing homebrewers cant do ?
Just saw on the BBC and the European Space Agency web site that the Rosetta Lander Philae just woke up and tweeted to Earth.
https://twitter.com/Philae2014
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33126885
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/06/14/rosettas-lander-philae-wakes-up-from-hibernation/
Is there nothing twitter can't be (ab)used for :)
Shanna
Yay Will! Delighted to hear this.
Fair play to whoever managed to install the twitter app on the Lander two years before twitter was launched.
Well it wasn't me!!
But this is great news for those of us who worked on the mission!
Quote from: Will_D on June 14, 2015, 11:11:59 PM
Well it wasn't me!!
But this is great news for those of us who worked on the mission!
Indeed, valuable lesson to never give up :) I hope it manages to recharge over the coming days and weeks as there is undoubtedly really important data on the rover.
Shanna
great news , hopefully it sends lots of data back and proves that yeast and therefore homebrew is present in the outer reaches of our solar system ........do we have club reps out there yet ? or is that where club reps come from? will the data answer these vital questions ?..
i for one welcome the cyper belt brewers and look foward to meeting them and trying their beers.
Fantastic achievement, fair balls Will!
Saw on telly tonight that the rosetta probe has come to the end of its mission and will be crashed into the comet it was surveying in the next few days. I'm at my parents house tonight and they were asking 'whats that about?' It took me a minute to remember why I knew about that particular bit of human built metal floating around the solar system.
Then it dawned on me that this was one of Professor Will D's old projects.
I took great pride in telling them that one of the guys that worked on Rosetta is also a member of the NHC.
My education and experience just about qualifies me to call myself a scientist, but I can only dream of achieving something on the same level as succesfully landing on a fecking comet.
ALL HAIL PROFESSOR WILL D.......
Congrats Will a massive achievement. There is'nt much to surpass that.
The lads that came up with the idea of crashing the multi million euros satellite into the comet were pissed on Will_D homebrew. When asked they said it seemed like a good idea at the time :D
Will was at home, in the shed, when he was told that they are going to crash his shiny probe into the comet - on purpose!
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php/topic,16238.msg156077.html#msg156077