# Comet Landing - 10 Years In The Making

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comet-landing-10-years-in-the-making/271059
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [November 12, 2014, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comet-landing-10-years-in-the-making/271059 "2014-11-12T06:39:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comet-landing-10-years-in-the-making/271059/21 "2014-11-12T12:13:16Z")

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> [@rugsr](#):
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> But being able to land on it at 40,000mph is pretty impressive

That’s slower than the Earth’s (and moon’s) velocity around the sun.

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### Author: ![Motocrossx23](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/motocrossx23/32/5120_2.png) [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comet-landing-10-years-in-the-making/271059/22 "2014-11-12T12:19:08Z")

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Yeah, totally not worth investing in intellectual advancements. I’d much rather continue blowing stuff up.

The day when our country decides to get our head out of our asses and actually work toward moral and educational goals, is the day we become the world power we should be.

Here’s a good summation of our attitude and the response that should be given:

[https://youtu.be/q49NOyJ8fNA](https://youtu.be/q49NOyJ8fNA)

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### Author: ![BOBBYGRV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BOBBYGRV](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BOBBYGRV)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2014, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comet-landing-10-years-in-the-making/271059/23 "2014-11-12T12:21:08Z")

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I know @JayS will like this one…

![https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10565036_10154866901275078_9042579562544112944_n.png?oh=6faef0310a0b67a660c681b14650d09e&oe=54EEDFD9](https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10565036_10154866901275078_9042579562544112944_n.png?oh=6faef0310a0b67a660c681b14650d09e&oe=54EEDFD9)

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### Author: ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/comet-landing-10-years-in-the-making/271059/24 "2014-11-12T13:35:58Z")

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Older graph but all this came into light when the government cut spending on NASA to fund more wars that we just print money for anyways.

 ![https://upworthy-production.s3.amazonaws.com/nugget/50aac84689126f00020041d5/attachments/NASA_budget__11-11-12.png](https://upworthy-production.s3.amazonaws.com/nugget/50aac84689126f00020041d5/attachments/NASA_budget__11-11-12.png)

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Sad too is the ESA budget is like 4 billion i think. NASA is still like 15?

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