Answer me, Philae

Published 5:37 pm Friday, June 19, 2015

I can’t hear you: Contact with the Philae space probe that landed on a comet remains spotty after it sent signals last week following seven months of silence. The European Space Agency is sending Rosetta, the mission’s mother ship, closer to see if that will improve communication).

Failing that, the mission’s father ship will threaten to take away Philae’s TV privileges and maybe ground it for the summer.

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Now, that’s a sandtrap: U.S. Open play at the Chambers Bay golf course in University Place continued Friday with Australian golfer Jason Day collapsing near the end of his round. Day’s agent said he was being treated at the course for dizziness.

Day, visiting the lush, usually rainy Puget Sound region for the first time, reportedly became disoriented by Chambers Bay’s desolate, browning, treeless course, hallucinating that he was playing at home in Australia’s Outback.

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Explains why the bears ordered GPS receivers: Scientists are tracking a new species at Rocky Mountain and Yosemite national parks. The movements of human tourists are being tracked with GPS devices to better coordinate shuttle services and study park congestion.

The program is voluntary, researchers said, and the tourists are provided a comfy cot to use while the tranquilizer dart wears off.

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