Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
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#2It’s strange how they celebrate going to the moon and yet most of their citizens still don’t know about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes...
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#3Sloandavids [dead] below, has a point. Celebrating the expansion of knowledge favorable to the Chinese government while censoring the knowledge of how that Chinese government crushed a protest (and a man) with military intervention against its own people, and while China is mass incarcerating whole peoples of non-Chinese ethnicity for 'cultural re-education', is well, totally repugnant, barbaric, and contrary to principles that democratic nations uphold.
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#4I've been combing the web for new pics but have found nothing. Anything new?
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#5What's with the rubbish photo quality?
This is 2019 after all and I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about manufacturing cameras.
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#6What's with the rubbish photo quality? This is 2019 after all and I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about manufacturing cameras.
> What's with the rubbish photo quality?...I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about...cameras
The Chinese also know a thing or two about power budgets, bandwidth limitations and optimising between function and vanity. Low quality rover photos show they’re optimising for function, not propaganda value. That’s good. (They’re also awesome pictures.)
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#7What's with the rubbish photo quality? This is 2019 after all and I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about manufacturing cameras.
> What's with the rubbish photo quality?...I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about...cameras The Chinese also know a thing or two about power budgets, bandwidth limitations and optimising between function and vanity. Low quality rover photos show they’re optimising for function, not propaganda value. That’s good. (They’re also awesome pictures.)
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Re: Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
#8What's with the rubbish photo quality? This is 2019 after all and I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about manufacturing cameras.
> What's with the rubbish photo quality?...I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about...cameras The Chinese also know a thing or two about power budgets, bandwidth limitations and optimising between function and vanity. Low quality rover photos show they’re optimising for function, not propaganda value. That’s good. (They’re also awesome pictures.)
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Re: Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
#9Sloandavids [dead] below, has a point. Celebrating the expansion of knowledge favorable to the Chinese government while censoring the knowledge of how that Chinese government crushed a protest (and a man) with military intervention against its own people, and while China is mass incarcerating whole peoples of non-Chinese ethnicity for 'cultural re-education', is well, totally repugnant, barbaric, and contrary to prin…
Just wait until they rove over and find our flag we put there that says “Tiananmen Square Happened” and it flashes on all their TVs. We went for the long game on this one.
Re: Chinese rover powers up devices in pioneering moon mission
#10What's with the rubbish photo quality? This is 2019 after all and I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about manufacturing cameras.
> What's with the rubbish photo quality?...I'm pretty sure the Chinese know a thing or two about...cameras The Chinese also know a thing or two about power budgets, bandwidth limitations and optimising between function and vanity. Low quality rover photos show they’re optimising for function, not propaganda value. That’s good. (They’re also awesome pictures.)
Just no.
The issue is not power budget, bandwidth or optimisation between function and vanity. Moon has plenty of sunlight, the bandwidth on an Earth-Moon link is very good and there's really no difference between vanity and function in terms of implementation here.
The real reasons here are a) the Space Grade™ plague, b) radiation hardening and durability and c) limited value in high quality photos.
non-web engineering on big total budget but limited per part projects is very, very conservative.