BuzzFeed : The Comet-Landing Scientist Who Wore A Shirt Covered In Half-Naked Women Has Sparked A Conversation About Sexism

And now a journalist who tweeted about it is being told to “jump off a cliff”. Because of course.

Yesterday, humans successfully landed a probe on a comet for the first time ever.

Here's one the first images of the comet from its surface. Yay! Woo! Science! Etc.

ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA / Via esa.int

Dr Matt Taylor, the project scientist on the mission, wore this shirt during interviews in the lead-up to the landing.

(In case you can't see the shirt properly, it's covered in images of half-naked women.)

Nature News / Via youtube.com

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