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A Size Comparison Of The Comet 67P With Popular Sci-Fi Spaceships
Christopher Becke, a high school physics teacher, made this outstanding size comparison showing what the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko would look like next to famous spacecrafts from science fiction. His images show the comet next to ships from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica.
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Mankind Has Landed On A Comet
Over 10 years ago, the Rosetta spacecraft left Earth to begin a long, lonely journey toward a ball of ice and rock. That six billion kilometre trek finally ended today, capped off with a nail-biting finale where Rosetta’s washing-machine-sized lander, Philae, became the first thing we humans have ever landed on a comet.
