ESA scientist gets a thigh tattoo to celebrate Rosetta satellite waking up - Polidicks

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/klm3.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26683763[/url] [quote]The Rosetta probe has started turning on its instruments. After coming out of a near three-year, deep-space hibernation in January, the satellite now has sufficient power to check out its science payload. The spacecraft is currently about 675 million km from Earth, and continues to close in on its comet quarry. Rosetta should arrive at the icy body in early August, when it will then start mapping the object to find a safe spot to put down its little lander. This craft, known as Philae, is piggy-backing the main probe, and was set to receive its wake-up commands on Friday. It will be another week, however, before they are actioned. Dr Matt Taylor, the European Space Agency's Rosetta project scientist, told BBC News: "The mission as a whole had this big emotional moment in January when the spacecraft was woken up. "Now, individual teams must experience something similar again as each one of Rosetta's 11 instruments is turned on for testing." ... Dr Taylor has been preparing himself this week for the rendezvous with a visit to a tattoo studio. He now has Rosetta, Philae and 67P pictured on his thigh. "When I arrived on the project, I promised I'd do it. I'd had one done for Esa's Cluster mission, and when Rosetta came out of hibernation, I said, 'right, let's get it done now'. "The place where I go is run by an old friend from school. He's done all my tattoos."[/quote] Guy confirmed for Ivan the Space Biker [img]http://imgkk.com/i/2wne.jpg[/img] (from his [url=https://twitter.com/mggtTaylor]twitter[/url])

I'll never really understand why people get 99% of tattoos, but neat I guess.

I'd get a tattoo, but not just to go out and get one, it's gotta have some meaning behind it. This would be a pretty acceptable reason to get one. :v:

too big for my taste but still cool as fuck also, the thigh would hurt so bad.

fucking hardcore scientist.

I personally think that tattoos with backgrounds look weird unless you cover the rest of the area with some others. That being said this one looks well-made.

Didn't want to make a new thread since this one was still pretty recent [quote=tgdaily] The Rosetta spacecraft has caught a first glimpse of its destination comet since waking up from deep-space hibernation on Jan. 20. The first images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on March 20 and 21 by the Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) wide-angle camera and narrow-angle camera. Rosetta is an international mission spearheaded by the European Space Agency with support and instruments provided by NASA. [img]http://img3.tgdaily.com/sites/default/files/stock/article_images/rosetta1.jpg[/img] The two images were taken at a distance of about three million miles (five million kilometers) and required a series of exposures of 60 to 300 seconds, taken with the wide-angle and narrow-angle camera. The imaging of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is part of six weeks of activities dedicated to preparing the spacecraft’s science instruments for close-up study of the comet [img]http://img2.tgdaily.com/sites/default/files/stock/article_images/rosetta2.jpg[/img] Rosetta has been traveling through the solar system for 10 years, and will arrive at the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in August of this year. Rosetta was reactivated Jan. 20 after a record 957 days in hibernation. The three U.S. instruments aboard Rosetta are the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter, Alice (an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph) and the Ion and Electron Sensor.[/quote] [url]http://www.tgdaily.com/space-features/91531-rosetta-sets-sights-on-destination-comet[/url] space is awesome