<story><title>Welcome to a comet</title><url>http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Welcome_to_a_comet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lrigikithumer</author><text>You know I have some bad days some times, but seeing shit like this just makes me think &amp;quot;What a fucking time to be alive!&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s truly incredibly and is sometimes that kick in the pants I need to keep on going. We are living in a golden age of humanity right now, at no point before in human history have so many people had such an incredible quality of life and never before has man been doing such incredible feats and have the ability to reach a worldwide audience almost instantaneously. The fact that just a few hours ago a human designed space craft landed on a comet, after decades of work and I can receive the images fresh from the great minds that brought us this feat, while laying in bed dicking about on my phone, it&amp;#x27;s just pure and simply astounding.&lt;p&gt;For all our flaws I love humans and I am so excited to see what the future holds.&lt;p&gt;Back to the comet, any word on what happened to the harpoons? I heard there was a misfire or they didn&amp;#x27;t fire or something? Any idea how that&amp;#x27;s affected the landing as of yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weavie</author><text>To get an idea of the scale of the thing, here is a picture of the comet relative to the size of London :&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Comet_over_London&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.esa.int&amp;#x2F;spaceinimages&amp;#x2F;Images&amp;#x2F;2014&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;Comet_over_L...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I had no idea the thing was so small. To get something to intercept an object that size traveling at 1000&amp;#x27;s mph is an amazing feat!</text></comment>
<story><title>Welcome to a comet</title><url>http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2014/11/Welcome_to_a_comet</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Lrigikithumer</author><text>You know I have some bad days some times, but seeing shit like this just makes me think &amp;quot;What a fucking time to be alive!&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s truly incredibly and is sometimes that kick in the pants I need to keep on going. We are living in a golden age of humanity right now, at no point before in human history have so many people had such an incredible quality of life and never before has man been doing such incredible feats and have the ability to reach a worldwide audience almost instantaneously. The fact that just a few hours ago a human designed space craft landed on a comet, after decades of work and I can receive the images fresh from the great minds that brought us this feat, while laying in bed dicking about on my phone, it&amp;#x27;s just pure and simply astounding.&lt;p&gt;For all our flaws I love humans and I am so excited to see what the future holds.&lt;p&gt;Back to the comet, any word on what happened to the harpoons? I heard there was a misfire or they didn&amp;#x27;t fire or something? Any idea how that&amp;#x27;s affected the landing as of yet?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vital101</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure about that status of the harpoons, but I generally use &lt;a href=&quot;http://reddit.com/r/space&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;space&lt;/a&gt; to keep up with all of my space related news.  Article quality is generally very high and there are a lot nice folks over there who answer questions in the comments.</text></comment>