Philae comforts itself pretending its a dishwasher in Surrey.
Philae, a probe that lays abandoned on a comet, has woken up drenched in sweat and feeling clammy.
After screaming itself to sleep just over 7 months ago, the lander awoke to find that it wasn’t all just a dream.
“Now that the batteries are charged, Philae can talk to us again”, said Hans Beckendorf of the European Space Agency. “And the first thing it said was ‘Fking fk fk, where the fking f**k am I?’.”
“It turns out that in space, someone can hear you scream.”
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