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Japanese spacecraft lands on asteroid. Seriously.
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Japanese probe apparently succeeds in landing on asteroid
The Hayabusa probe touched down for only a few seconds on the faraway asteroid — long enough to collect powder from its surface — and lifted off again to transmit data to mission controllers, said Kiyotaka Yashiro, a spokesman for JAXA, Japan's space agency.
But JAXA won't know if Hayabusa actually collected surface samples until it returns to Earth. It is expected to touch down in the Australian Outback in June 2007.
Hayabusa was launched in May 2003 and has until early December before it must begin its 180 million-mile journey home.
(If you haven't already guessed, the pix are artists' renditions.)
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Go Japan! 
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Here's a picture of part of the asteroid, with the shadow of the probe:
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What I want to know is why they decided to land a motorcycle on an asteroid.
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There is a Canadian flag on the asteroid!
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Originally Posted by besson3c
There is a Canadian flag on the asteroid!
 Go Canada!
Originally Posted by nonhuman
What I want to know is why they decided to land a motorcycle on an asteroid.
Those crazy Japanese...
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Why is there a "Seriously" in the thread title??
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Originally Posted by badidea
Why is there a "Seriously" in the thread title??
Did you think the Japanese would land spacecrafts on asteroids light-heartedly?
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Making sense is overrated.
Hippotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia -The fear of long words.
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Originally Posted by badidea
Why is there a "Seriously" in the thread title??
Because it had been thought that the probe had been lost and so wouldn't be able to complete it's mission in which case this thread could easily have been taken as a dig at the Japanese. But the probe somehow managed to not actually be lost (I'm still a little confused what happened) and is completing its mission after all. Hence, 'seriously' and not 'sarcastically'.
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Nah. It's just because I felt like putting it there. Seriously.
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I think I see a RE/Max sign on the asteroid. People will buy any real estate these days...
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There is a Canadian flag on the asteroid!
Maybe the Canadian Minister of Defence was right when he said that aliens had been visiting Canada.
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Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck don't think this is a big deal.
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Japan just released computer rendered pictures of the spacecraft approaching the asteroid.
Conspiracy theorists have noted the UFO in the corner of the picture....
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"It's weird the way 'finger puppets' sounds ok as a noun..."
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I'm surprised they didn't land a Hello Kitty on the asteroid. Oh, you laugh, but it probably came up in a meeting.
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