Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
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#2Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#3More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224107
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#4Congrats 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.
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#5“Firefly is literally and figuratively over the Moon,”
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#6“Firefly is literally and figuratively over the Moon,”
I really like "Our Blue Ghost lunar lander now has a permanent home on the lunar surface..."
It's rare that usage of word "permanent" has this close to an accurate meaning. Complete development of the moon's surface aside, what are the factors what will destroy it? Solar and cosmic radiation? What timescale are we talking about here?
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#7> Cedar Park, Texas
For those who don’t live in Texas, many people who live in Cedar Park would say they are from Austin. It’s a suburb to the North. I know an engineer from Firefly from years ago. She was always fascinating to talk to. I also sold my MK3s+ 3D printer to a firefly employee via Craigslist a few years ago.
I’m glad they’re having some success.
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#8Hell yeah!
It would be very cool if we are able to properly colonize the moon in my lifetime. Even if we don't have humans living there like in Futurama (as cool as that would be), it would be unbelievably cool if we have constant back-and-forth trips to the moon.
Or we could just blow it up, which might be fun in its own right: https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#9Hell yeah! It would be very cool if we are able to properly colonize the moon in my lifetime. Even if we don't have humans living there like in Futurama (as cool as that would be), it would be unbelievably cool if we have constant back-and-forth trips to the moon. Or we could just blow it up, which might be fun in its own right: https://youtu.be/GTJ3LIA5LmA
As far as flights of fancy regarding the moon, I enjoyed Randall Munroe's "What if we put a pool on the moon" thought experiment. I would enjoy the experience of propelling myself out of the water like a dolphin!
Re: Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon
#10“Firefly is literally and figuratively over the Moon,”
I really like "Our Blue Ghost lunar lander now has a permanent home on the lunar surface..." It's rare that usage of word "permanent" has this close to an accurate meaning. Complete development of the moon's surface aside, what are the factors what will destroy it? Solar and cosmic radiation? What timescale are we talking about here?
Overwhelmingly likely to be human interference, even without "complete development of the moon's surface".
Perhaps somebody thinks it would make a good museum piece back on Earth, or some bored spacefaring teen vandals destroy it for the lulz, or religious norms will change and those in power will blow it up to show their rejection of idols of a now forbidden age.
I'd give it hundreds of years, but not thousands.