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Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by ethbr1 »

flavius29663 wrote: post #247
pyeri wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, political speeches on such occasions go down as most remembered historically. The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was obviously said by some politician! (or at least with non-technical motives)

Also, "we're going to the moon not because it's easy, but because it's hard"

The full version of that section is more amusing but forgotten

>> But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may as well ask: why climb the highest mountain? Why 35 years ago fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon {applause} We choose to go to the moon... {applause} We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard -- because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills -- because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win. (And the others too)

(as spoken and delivered at Rice University in Houston, Texas, referencing the Rice-Texas American football rivalry, where Texas is a 10x larger university)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QXqlziZV63k&t=9m22s

https://www.jfklibrary.org/sites/default/files/archives/JFKP...

Congratulations to ISRO (and all of India) for doing not the thing that was easy, but the thing that was hard and valuable!

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by adolph »

pyeri wrote: post #242
dotnet00 wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately all the national space agencies seem to suffer from this. Both NASA and ESA also seem to think that people are tuning in to watch the smarmy politician talk rather than the robot making its way to space/landing on another body. Had the same issue with JWST for example.

On the other hand, political speeches on such occasions go down as most remembered historically. The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was obviously said by some politician! (or at least with non-technical motives)

> The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

What makes the quote infamous rather than just famous?

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by numpad0 »

The_Colonel wrote: post #71
thyrox wrote: post #47

Not asking rhetorically but why is this a big deal? Is it because it's going to the south pole? What are some other benefits to be gained from this?

Besides what others said, it gets extra spice from the fact Russia failed to do the same just days ago.

Speaking of that, was that another failure of a modified Fregat or am I just too dumb to speak on this topic?

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Post by goku12 »

rospaya wrote: post #239
mkl wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a big deal because India has never landed on the moon before; only three nations have.

> With this mission, India became the first to impact the Lunar south pole and the 7th nation to reach the lunar surface. Wiki article for Chandrayaan-1 from 2008.

Impactors and landers are classified differently. So both your comment and the one you were replying to are correct.

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by samstave »

mrtksn wrote: post #216
confuseddesi wrote: post #75

It’s landed! Congratulations to India on this great achievement!

One of the most populous countries has become a strong contender in space exploration. Hopefully, it will inspire so many more Indians to push it further and elevate the humanity, just like USA and USSR once did. It's great.

They dont want us to see the little green UAPs that closely monitor what we are doing :-)

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by samstave »

whoknowswhat11 wrote: post #106
confuseddesi wrote: post #75

It’s landed! Congratulations to India on this great achievement!

Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?

They dont want us to see the little green UAPs that closely monitor what we are doing :-)

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by jp42 »

whoknowswhat11 wrote: post #106
confuseddesi wrote: post #75

It’s landed! Congratulations to India on this great achievement!

Why such a long political speech and no views from onboard camera?

I absolutely agree that they should immediately release data & images for more technically inclined section. However the reason for speeches is entire nation is watching this event across all age group, most of them don't understand technical things, I would say even image of moon surface wont connect to most of them. Basically speeches is the way to connect & artists impression images. To give some example, people thing entire rocket goes to moon, one of the politician was wishing "passengers" on the spacecraft, reputed news channel claiming "breaking new" that there wont be delay in landing as if we can push breaks like in car or traffic on the way. So you get the point, to connect to masses they are speaking in language that everyone understand

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by ryandrake »

adolph wrote: post #272
pyeri wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, political speeches on such occasions go down as most remembered historically. The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." was obviously said by some politician! (or at least with non-technical motives)

> The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." What makes the quote in famous rather than just famous?

Unless you were being sarcastic, it's because people don't know what the word infamous means and think it means "extremely famous".

Re: Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

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Post by dotnet00 »

bambax wrote: post #182
legends2k wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

South pole is unexplored and no one has ever landed there, manned or unmanned. Exploring the unexplored isn't science?

The moon is NOT unexplored. That's my point actually. Should we explore every inch of it?

Of course we should? I'm surprised you think otherwise. It's like arguing that we shouldn't have explored the Americas because the Earth was not unexplored.

The Lunar poles have lots of scientific value, particularly for long term habitation, as you can have both permanently shadowed craters with water ice in them and permanently lit areas providing a reliable source of power.

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