There’s some stuff happening outside of politics and Da Chipster reminds us.

We have landed on a comet. Earth has just recveived confirmation that we have, in fact, harpooned a comet. The lander needs to harpoon the comet just to hold on because the comet’s escape velocity is 20 inches/second, so one good electronic sneeze and the lander would be 10 football fields away in a blink.

And when I say “we” I mean “Earthlings.” No chanting U-S-A on this one because we cancelled funding on it, and by “we” I mean King George Bush I in his 1992 budget.

Anyhoo, in the immortal words of Vice President Joe Biden, this is a big fing deal.

You can listen to the comet here.  (The talking heads finally shuddup and let you listen.)

Science is very cool.