Honorary NFOA Membership for ESA Team

[SemperFiGuy]

News Item:
The "first" landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was confirmed at about 16:05 GMT.

There were cheers and hugs at the European Space Agency (ESA) mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, after the signal came through.
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Honorary membership in NFOA is proposed for this team because they sent a space probe 4 billion miles to hit a comet 311 million miles away:  [Gotta be world record for angle of elevation; world record for distance-to-target].

The comet was traveling 40,000 mph: [Gotta be world record for target lead.  Worse than a hard left at the trap range.]

It took ten years [Only Second place world record; world record has got to belong to those 6mm PPC shooters over at ENGC who are always fussing w/scopes, gun cradles, wind meters, ammo, etc. before they ever squeeze off a round.]

The Philae landing probe hit in the center of a 550-yard target landing zone.

Now THAT's sub-minute of angle!!!

Just thinkin' about all of that.  Some Shootin'.

[And I'm proposing Honorary Membership, only.   Not putting them on the Board or Committees or anything else......]

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[NE Bull]

Yeah, but how does that translate to the real world in the field? 
Think any of them could hit a pheasant in flight?

[abbafandr]

Yeah, but how does that translate to the real world in the field? 
Think any of them could hit a pheasant in flight?

They would probably soil themselves if they saw a firearm:-)

[mott555]

Actually, they missed the intended landing site and the solar panels are having trouble getting adequate sunlight.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/13/us-space-comet-idUSKCN0IW0S520141113

[SemperFiGuy]

...they missed the intended landing site...

Revises early accounts of the mission.

Stick around long enough, the Newsies will maybe eventually get it right.

In dribs and drabs.

(If you've ever had an account written in the paper in which you were personally involved, it was probably a revelation about the lack of accuracy in the newsgathering process.)

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[RedDot]

So the Germans fired a rocket to hit a comet named after a couple of Russians and after the  elation of initial success, things are starting to unravel and go badly?  Does this sound vaguely familiar to anyone else?   

[Dave1215]

Revises early accounts of the mission.

Stick around long enough, the Newsies will maybe eventually get it right.

In dribs and drabs.

(If you've ever had an account written in the paper in which you were personally involved, it was probably a revelation about the lack of accuracy in the newsgathering process.)

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Lots of truth in that statement

[mott555]

Revises early accounts of the mission.

Stick around long enough, the Newsies will maybe eventually get it right.

In dribs and drabs.

(If you've ever had an account written in the paper in which you were personally involved, it was probably a revelation about the lack of accuracy in the newsgathering process.)

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Absolutely. I have no faith in the media anymore. Most of my experience with the news was with some of the flooding in northwest Missouri over the past decade. One national newspaper made the claim that Mound City was destroyed and thousands of families were now homeless. Not only a blatant lie, but impossible, since the town is on the side of a very large hill and doesn't have enough population for thousands of families. Same thing with Hamburg, IA a couple years ago, some news agency claimed the entire town was 20 feet underwater yet I'd driven through the day before and the town was totally untouched (though the interstate a few miles west was underwater).