Proud of my scientist brothers

I still can’t believe there’s a man-made object sitting on a comet half-a-billion kilometres away. 
The achievement of the Rosetta team in getting a probe to land safely and send back information must be one of the most remarkable human achievements ever. The media gloss may have worn off and the 24-hour news channels may have gone back to making everyone panic about Ebola, but the amazing events of the past seven days far out in our Solar System continue to astonish and astound me. The experts will be analysing data for months and years to come, and we barely have the faintest clue yet as to what this project may lead to. The knock-on effects and advancements in all things scientific will only be known in retrospect, and it could be a decade before everyday life is improved in some way by these endeavours, but I honestly believe they will be.
It makes me proud to be a scientist. Who is currently working at a filling station….

RC 17-11-14