Description: Chronicles & Travelogues of a Nomad Scientist Anecdotes d'un planétologue qui déambule
En effet, il se trouve que le mot français « cornac » est un mot dérivé du cinghalais, une des langues officielles du Sri Lanka. Il est peut-être le seul mot avec une telle origine, se trouvant dans la langue française, que je sache. Alors ma question est la suivante. Comment aurait-il pu en arriver là ?…
Well, well, well, it’s been more than three years that I hadn’t written a blogpost over here, or anywhere else for that matter I think. The last post I made was about the Rosetta space mission, at the occasion of its final moment as it soft-landed on the comet 67P. That was late September 2016.…
Well, it’s an emotional moment, I have to admit. Knowing that Rosetta will reach the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in a controlled impact in several hours from now, is quite hard to imagine. But this is the reality, however. Launched in 2004, Rosetta arrived at her comet in August 2014 after more than 10…