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PHILAE HAS WOKEN UP AND CONTACTED EARTH!

BBC HAS MORE:

It worked for 60 hours before going to sleep when its solar-powered battery ran flat.

The comet has since moved nearer to the sun and Philae has enough power to work again, says the BBC’s science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

The Rosetta probe took 10 years to reach the comet, and the lander – about the size of a washing-machine – bounced at least a kilometre when it touched down.

Its exact location on the comet has since been a mystery.

A fine moment..
Looking forward to the discoveries made. If we are told the full story, of course.

The Queen is not dead. Long live the Queen. Although the BBC, practicing for her death, accidentally tweeted that she was gone..

The Queen is not dead. Long live the Queen. Although the BBC, practicing for her death, accidentally tweeted that she was gone..

It was all a rehearsal..

The NBC report says this:

The initial report was picked up by media outlets including CNN Newsource and German newspaper Bild.

However, when NBC News alerted Buckingham Palace to the tweets, a spokesman said that the queen was not only alive but carrying out public engagements.

It is not clear exactly how the mistake happened but the U.K.’s publicly-funded broadcaster was staging an internal drill on Wednesday to examine its readiness for the queen’s death, a routine event staged by many news organizations.

The reporter who tweeted the death notice deleted said evidence of the non deaths..