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...solar system to intercept and land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently streaking across space at more than 100,000 km/h inside the orbit of Jupiter. "What's totally obsessing me is that we're launching into a comet and searching for the origins of life," says David Southwood, director of science at the European Space Agency (ESA), which is orchestrating the Rosetta project. "We're going out there, landing on a comet and doing our analysis in situ." Southwood and his colleagues at esa are indulging their obsession at a time of heightened interest in space - and heightened controversy...
...conversations are like minefields,” Darnielle wails on the album’s standout track, “Southwood Plantation Road,” “No one’s found a safe way through one yet.” His penchant for the Homeric simile is nowhere more apparent than on the slightly over-the-top “International Small Arms Traffic Blues,” with its memorable comparison “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania … there is a shortage in the blood supply...