Some of you may have been following the limerick thread and the two which referred to Comet ISON's demise and then looking forward to ESA's Rosetta and its mission to rendezvous with, escort, and place a lander on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
Those two lovely team-written limericks, along with a Frost*erisk, managed to wangle their way into my talk to the media today about Rosetta's impending wake-up from hibernation on 20 January and a look forward to the great science this mission will do next year (fast-forward to 9 mins):
http://www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency/video?clipId=pla_5ddad296-9c7a-44a5-be85-ed70b1767c51&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumbIt amused me and the audience no end

But ... this all comes at a cost. Now I need
you to do something in return and I just know that you creative Frost*ies will do me proud.
We're running a social media campaign around the wake-up and have announced a competition, asking for people to record short video messages essentially saying "Wake up, Rosetta!". It could be a whisper, a shout, a flash mob (please), or, this being the Frost* forum, surely something with some music in. Seven seconds, thirty seconds, ninety seconds: whatever you like.
The videos get uploaded to a special Facebook page (no account necessary), get voted on, and ranked: the top ten all get special ESA goodie bags and the two grand winners (which may not necessarily be the top ranked), get a paid trip to our mission operations centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, to be part of the big day in November 14 when Rosetta drops her lander Philae onto the surface of Comet 67P/C-G. Should be very exciting indeed ...
All you need to know about entering is in the links below: entries allowed between now and 20 January, so upload soon, and upload often

Go for it, my lovely Frost*ies friends.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Wake_up_Rosettahttps://www.facebook.com/RosettaMissionhttps://www.facebook.com/RosettaMission/app_380544765399431www.youtube.com/watch?v=P06yCOny218www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzi87aI60s