Re: Space Nerds
This is great news. I've this feeling that this is going to be considered an historic milestone in years to come. The kind of 'first' that's on the timeline of humanity's journey to the stars.
I think this is particularly significant because landing on a comet, aside from actually being pretty darn difficult, represents a key stage in their mineral exploitation (which we will have to do at some stage in our development).
Even more importantly, this is an incredible proof of concept for how we could divert incoming comets and asteroids.
You'd basically just need to repeat the same thing, but add a reverse thruster and fuel to push the comet off it's orbit.