MAKIN HISTORY: COMET LANDING DAY

[nanila]

Y'ALL WE DID IT

WE LANDED A TINY HUNK OF METAL ON A SMALL SNOWY DIRTYBALL HURTLING THROUGH SPACE AT THOUSANDS OF MILES PER HOUR

OMG TODAY IS FREAKIN EPIC

Comments

[sfred]

EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

[sorrillia]

Congratulations!

[clanwilliam]

HURRAY!!!!!

(I've been thinking of you all day, and was pleased to see Dave C quoted by the Guardian as well.)

[redsixwing]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I saw an article that it had been dropped, but not that it had landed. A. Ma. Zing.

[forthwritten]

CONGRATULATIONS!!

[duccio]

I've been watching. Congratulations y'all.

[weaverbird]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Tears and goose-bumps as I read my Twitter feed. What an accomplishment; there are no words!

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND EVERYONE WORKING ON THIS MISSION!!!!!

[ceb]

So, so amazing! :-D

[quoththeravyn]

|O?

which is the caps-lock version of \o/

Seriously cool stuff. Looking forward to further info.

[liv]

AMAAAAAAAAAZING! What a fantastically cool thing to be involved with!

[kaberett]

I AM SO FUCKING DELIGHTED BY ALL OF THIS I HAVE BEEN GRINNING ALL ALONG

[hilarita]

IT'S AMAZING. WE WATCHED THE FEED FROM ESA AT CAMBRIDGE! HOPEFULLY IT CAN STICK DOWN AND DO SCIENCE! SCIENCE!!!!!

[major_clanger]

I'm about to show my age and say OMG this reminds me of when Viking landed on Mars!

[hano]

Just an amazing thing to pull off. It's a hell of a piece of engineering. Wow.

[davidgillon]

Good job!

[lurkingcat]

WHEEEE!

CONGRATULATIONS!

So very amazing :)

[qian]

Congratulations!!!

[uninvitedcat]

FABULOUS!!!

[nanila]

IS AMAZING YEP

[nanila]

\o/ It's a good day for the lab!

[nanila]

YIPPEEE!

I missed Dave's Guardian quote - there's been so much media coverage (very pleasing).

[nanila]

The whole procedure was pretty agonizingly slow, given that first GO/NOGO for separation was at 19:30 yesterday. Everyone's a bit knackered now...

[nanila]

YAAAAAAY! It's been a good day. Very tired now though.

[nanila]

This is one of the fantastic things about it - the participatory feeling that coverage through various forms of social media has given so many people, not to mention the livestreaming. :)

[nanila]

YAAAY! Thank you! The day has been pretty epic given that the process started yesterday evening with the first GO/NOGO. :D