#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant: Best Tweets To Commemorate The Rosetta Comet Landing
From the archive: published Nov 12, 2014, 11 years ago. Details may have changed since.
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant not write an article about this cool Twitter trend, apparently.
Yes, on Wednesday the Internet — particularly Twitter — was abuzz with 140-character tributes to one of the most spectacular developments for space technology since the lunar landing.
Europe won the day by landing a small spaceship on the surface of a comet millions of miles away, something I confess I didn’t even think was possible.
(Go Rosetta Mission!)
Twitter users, however, took it as an opportunity to riff on the old “We can land a man on a moon, but we can’t…” saying. What they came up with ranged from poignant to hilarious. While going through the more than 18,000 tweets (thus far) we picked some of our favorites.
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant touch this pic.twitter.com/hC25RujjLq
— Lily the Pink (@LilybellePink) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant understand that free speech means hearing things you don’t like or agree with #tcot pic.twitter.com/5Ua8i2PHvE — Fred Wimpy (@fredwimpy) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant find a better way to clean windows pic.twitter.com/jt1Pe4Lmh0
— Barrett Daniels (@barrett_nxtstep) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant get the original #starwars movies on blu-ray or dvd, just the George Lucas ‘tinkered with’ special editions. — Jedi Order PR (@JediOrderPR) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant have a black person emoji?
— Cupcake (@cupcaker) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant …Stop. We didn’t land on a comet, Europe did. — Jimmy Sanders (@The1ManHerd) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant make gifs as our backgrounds on our phones. Come on apple, get with it
— Madi Wheeler (@The_Madster_) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant bring a spare remote trigger. Bruce Willis died from piss poor planning. — kim jong il (@kim_il_ghost) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant stop setting up false dichotomies.
— Annalie (@AnnalieGrogan) November 12, 2014
THIS >>>> “@afriedlieb: #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant figure out their, there, and they’re on Twitter.” — C. V. (@GrayscaleTurtle) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant Get kids to buy pants that don’t slide to their knees.
— Damon Parker (@DamonParker1) November 12, 2014
LOL mt @JeffBurton #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant keep a naked Kardashian off the internet! — Dana Loves Racing (@DriverAppear) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant invent a machine to fold laundry automatically.
— Craig Downing (@craigs_benedict) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant come up with an original idea for a movie. Getting tired of all these sequels, series, and restarts — Ziyan Samnani (@ziyan94cfc) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant land our cars in parking spots properly. Or use turn signals.
— Matt Dolloff (@mattdolloff) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant land on a comet. So the harpoon bounced apparently. http://t.co/qICOBpKSYd — Simon John Cheng (@SimonJC_) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant stop with the hashtags already.
— Jimmy Callaway (@Jimmytheworm) November 12, 2014
What do you wish we could do that we just can’t?