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Feedback: A song for a satellite gone

6 May 2015

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A song for a satellite gone

PLUCKY little Philae’s epic and lonely struggle against the absence of gravity ensures that at least some of us are gripped by its stalled quest (6 December 2014). Will it wake? The most hopeful estimates are that now is the time to listen (see “Asteroid ahoy!“).

Feedback will not join what one journalist colleague called “the idle speculation”. Instead we turn, not for the first time, to the words of John Lennon: “Please, don’t…

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