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There were 2 other commercial landing that blacked out just before landing must be something they all didn’t take care of or maybe nasa is holding out some secret info
I would characterize it as failing during the landing process, or lithobraking if you will.
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Obligatory Sagan quote: > Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, ev…
This is why I do not understand people who would jump at the chance to live on a permanent Martian or Lunar colony.
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.
Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”
Maybe it’s a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds— promising untold opportunities—beckon.
Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.
There were 2 other commercial landing that blacked out just before landing must be something they all didn’t take care of or maybe nasa is holding out some secret info
Beautiful images of Earth from the lander: https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1650506233575604227/ph... and https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1649707714447306753/ph...
How large are these craters on the moon? https://twitter.com/ispace_inc/status/1650506233575604227/ph...
When viewed from the moon, the earth's diameter subtends an angle of about 0.033 radians. On the other hand, if the photo was taken from an orbital altitude of 100km, then the lunar horizon is about 600km away from the viewpoint (using Pythagoras' theorem).
So at the horizon, a crater the same apparent size as the earth would be roughly 0.033 * 600 = 20 km across.
We were watching live and the control room went from completely excited to somber in about a one second period. Space is hard.
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This is why I do not understand people who would jump at the chance to live on a permanent Martian or Lunar colony.
I would direct you to another Sagan quote as part of Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist : https://vimeo.com/108650530 For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal,…
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.
There were 2 other commercial landing that blacked out just before landing must be something they all didn’t take care of or maybe nasa is holding out some secret info
Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times ...
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Bonus points if you attach some to plaques and give them away to various nations which then lose some of them.
"Stolen and missing Moon rocks" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_Moon_rocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_lunar_sample_display
Assuming it wasn't lost or stolen since 1970, I wonder what the Taliban is doing with its moon rock.