I just played with a few numbers from that.
The Rosetta probe will have travelled 6,000,000,000km to reach an comet 4km wide.
If you scale the comet down to the size of a dartboard bullseye (1cm), then the equivalent distance the dart would have to travel would be 15,000km.
So if the target was in London, England, it'd be like throwing it from Perth, Australia.
...space is fucking awesome.
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