WASHINGTON — If you’re — well, of a certain age, you remember that the crowning achievement of landing on the Moon was soon followed by people everywhere using the landmark as a measure of our own foibles.
“We can put a man on the Moon,” people would say, “but we can’t …” followed by any task that remained frustratingly elusive: “cure the common cold,” “make a ketchup bottle that opens,” and many more.
Well, a group of scientists landed a spacecraft on a comet on Wednesday, and in the age of Twitter, it took just took a few hours for the process to repeat itself.
CNN reports that on Wednesday, the Twitter hashtag #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant began taking off.
Some of CNN’s favorites, and ours:
#wecanlandonacometbutwecant flush the toilet when someone's in the shower
— ♡ Heroine Hippie ♡ (@NeensNicole_) November 13, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant stop saying Hump Day on Wednesdays.
— racing dead wonka (@NASCAR_Wonka) November 12, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant believe it's not butter.
— Emma Daisy Groome (@EmmaDGroome) November 14, 2014
Develop a hashtag that can take an apostrophe #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant
— boothby graffoe (@boobygraffoe) November 14, 2014
#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant touch this… pic.twitter.com/ErgCnprDPN
— Steph Pirro-Tenney (@Pirroette) November 13, 2014
The day's best editorial cartoons: http://t.co/AoTYpdb6H2 pic.twitter.com/Rl50aJYTQ0 #WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant
— The Week (@TheWeek) November 14, 2014
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