I saw that in a movie once.
Landing something the size of a washing machine on a comet just over 2 miles wide, which is over 300 million miles away while it travels through space at over 40,000 miles per hour.
Not tonight, I'm busy.
I think it's all made up. A hoax fabricated to give techies and trekkies something to believe in. Really, they can't stop ISIS or radical Islam but they can land a spaceship on a comet somewhere out there??? Poppycock!!!
We couldn't make it to the moon either with computers of the XT era.
The project has taken 10 years to maneuver its craft near enough to the comet to land on it so it didnt happen over night but its still amazing.
Any data mission control got was already 28+ minutes old. If any alterations needed to be done, it would take 28+ minutes to see the data to tell you that an alteration needed to be done, 28+ minutes for your alteration to reach the craft, and 28+ minutes to see the data to verify whether or not that worked.
I'd really like to see a pilot land on a carrier under such conditions.
The big question should be... we put a man on the moon with slide rules and less electronic computing power than a modern cell phone... could we have done this with slide rules, too, if technology had not evolved to it's current state?
