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Flickr? Moon landing? What year is it?
This is an interesting tangent. Is it Flickr's copyright rules that make it attractive? Or, something else? Lack of existing competitors? Not associated with a social media account?
Congrats to the FireFly team, this is an amazing achievement. Video of the earth rising from the horizon reminded me of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech. Any opensource libraries in that satellite's tech stack will now get to brag about "our code running on the moon" :) I wonder if FireFly team has used AI coding tools in any part of their development process.
A safe bet would be that SQLite is on there. It's already in airplanes / satellites.
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The're a surprisingly high flux of micrometeoroid impacts at the lunar surface. Most of these are too small to do much damage, but there will probably be measurable erosion in centuries and genuine damage within about 1 million years. The timeline for it to be destroyed/completely broken down is much longer. For context, there's roughly a 50% chance of an astronaut being hit by a micrometeoroid large enough to kill t…
Thank you for seeing through my sloppy writing, and identifying what I was getting at. I should have have said "aside from human intervention." So, aside from the human intervention, and assuming that the materials can generally withstand radiation... let's say it's 6 sq meters, [0] I know this is not exactly how it works, but if LLMs[1] and my own lacking skills at mathematics are accurate, then ~70 million years? T…
With that said thermal cycles on the moon are very large, with a range up to 450F. That much thermal expansion and contraction over time is going to be hard on anything not shielded under some soil.
As a former Intuitive Machines employee, I feel obligated to correct the title! IM-1 landed on the moon last February and although it didn't stay upright, it was still operational and returned some decent scientific data.
How cool is it to have your work preserved for thousands to millions of years, on the surface of the moon?!
I cannot imagine much anything more fun.
"At the end of its operations, Blue Ghost will stay put, destined to remain on the moon’s surface indefinitely." Is that a euphemism for "Humans are leaving rubbish to pollute another part of the universe?"
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This is an interesting tangent. Is it Flickr's copyright rules that make it attractive? Or, something else? Lack of existing competitors? Not associated with a social media account?
If you’re going to post albums of high-res photographs on the internet… why not Flickr?
Here are the pictures it has taken so far: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031... There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.
It's fascinating how the pictures have that "Apollo moon landing" look. I'd always assumed that a huge part of this was just 1960s technology (film not digital etc), but apparently it's actually coming from the literally unearthly lighting conditions of being on the Moon.
Congrats to the FireFly team, this is an amazing achievement. Video of the earth rising from the horizon reminded me of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech. Any opensource libraries in that satellite's tech stack will now get to brag about "our code running on the moon" :) I wonder if FireFly team has used AI coding tools in any part of their development process.
> Any opensource libraries in that satellite's tech stack will now get to brag about "our code running on the moon" :) A safe bet would be that SQLite is on there. It's already in airplanes / satellites.