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BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 14, 2015 at 1:58 pm
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 15, 2015 at 2:21 am
Just a theoretical q here.
What if Philae landed next to another bot doing the same thing as ours.
Other than physically seeing it, is there any way they/we could communicate in any way, shape or form?
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 15, 2015 at 2:28 am
Wow, that's exciting news!! I'm giving the article a more thorough reading now.
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 15, 2015 at 8:28 am
(June 15, 2015 at 2:21 am)ignoramus Wrote: Just a theoretical q here.
What if Philae landed next to another bot doing the same thing as ours.
Other than physically seeing it, is there any way they/we could communicate in any way, shape or form?

Like...an alien one? I'm unsure of the schematics, but if there were any moving components perhaps there"d be a way to establish a very rudimentary signal simply by moving a component back and forth in a prime number kind of pattern...
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 15, 2015 at 8:51 am
All you'd need is Jeff Goldblum and his 16mb Mac Powerbook.
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June 15, 2015 at 8:53 am
Spock could do a mind meld . . .
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 15, 2015 at 9:01 am
Yeah, but sadly we'd have to use Zachary Quinto. While I wouldn't be averse to having him fired into space, he's no Leonard Nimoy.
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RE: BREAKING NEWS: Philae wakes up
June 21, 2015 at 7:15 pm
(June 15, 2015 at 8:28 am)Iroscato Wrote:
(June 15, 2015 at 2:21 am)ignoramus Wrote: Just a theoretical q here.
What if Philae landed next to another bot doing the same thing as ours.
Other than physically seeing it, is there any way they/we could communicate in any way, shape or form?

Like...an alien one? I'm unsure of the schematics, but if there were any moving components perhaps there"d be a way to establish a very rudimentary signal simply by moving a component back and forth in a prime number kind of pattern...

We should know by now what happens when an alien probe hooks up with a human probe:

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