by geckzilla » Fri Nov 14, 2014 8:20 pm
RedFishBlueFish wrote:The near disaster of the landing also brings to recollection the, to my untutored thought, absurd and needless complexity of the apparently ego-driven, exhibitionist, dick-swinging landing sequence devised for Mars Curiosity - the success of which gives credence to the arguments of Teilhard de Chardin.
You said it yourself. You are ignorant. I suggest you do some reading.
Chris Peterson wrote:sunlight wrote:Chris Peterson wrote:I believe that was earlier identified (in another discussion) as part of the CONSERT instrument, a microwave antenna.
Looks embedded in he rock !?
So it does. That's why we have to be very careful in how we interpret images. We are easily fooled. It is wise to maintain a high degree of skepticism about our interpretations of imagery, especially imagery from an unfamiliar environment. It is the nature of our brains to force what we see into narrow patterns of experience, and that simply doesn't work in a case like this. Heck, that might not even be rock that the antenna isn't embedded in!
To me it looks more like the CONSERT antenna is serving as a foot in this picture while the foot that was supposed to support Philae is not touching anything the way it should be. The surface is very bumpy and Philae is sideways so the picture is quite disorienting. So, not necessarily embedded, but it definitely looks to be touching. Philae's mass on this comet is light enough that it could rest on one's fingertip.
[quote="RedFishBlueFish"]The near disaster of the landing also brings to recollection the, [b]to my untutored thought[/b], absurd and needless complexity of the apparently ego-driven, exhibitionist, dick-swinging landing sequence devised for Mars Curiosity - the success of which gives credence to the arguments of Teilhard de Chardin.[/quote]
You said it yourself. You are ignorant. I suggest you do some reading.
[quote="Chris Peterson"][quote="sunlight"][quote="Chris Peterson"]I believe that was earlier identified (in another discussion) as part of the CONSERT instrument, a microwave antenna.[/quote]
Looks embedded in he rock !?[/quote]
So it does. That's why we have to be very careful in how we interpret images. We are easily fooled. It is wise to maintain a high degree of skepticism about our interpretations of imagery, especially imagery from an unfamiliar environment. It is the nature of our brains to force what we see into narrow patterns of experience, and that simply doesn't work in a case like this. Heck, that might not even be rock that the antenna isn't embedded in![/quote]
To me it looks more like the CONSERT antenna is serving as a foot in this picture while the foot that was supposed to support Philae is not touching anything the way it should be. The surface is very bumpy and Philae is sideways so the picture is quite disorienting. So, not necessarily embedded, but it definitely looks to be touching. Philae's mass on this comet is light enough that it could rest on one's fingertip.