Robotic private spacecraft touched down about 250 meters from its intended landing site on Thursday
  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    180·
    2 days ago

    I think the only one that can solve all of their problems is elon. He would fix it in few weeks. Include him in next launch, he will troubleshoot directly on the Moon. Please, someone, send that asshole to space.

      • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        He would try to smoke the moon regolith and come up with some rad ideas. Occupy Moon! Yeeeeaah

        • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I mean, I would too, just to see if the moon is special.

          I mean look, scientists (and random bored people) for thousands of years did the same thing. Tasted things, consumed things to see what they do…

          Has anyone smoked the moon yet? No. So we don’t actually know. We can speculate it does nothing, but we don’t know.

          Maybe snort moon dust? Probably more practical.

      • Cavemanfreak@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        That sank into a crater. So we built a third one. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into a crater. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest spacecraft on all of the Moon.

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    When one day we get people back on the moon, is there a chance these devices could be brought back online?

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Well, if we have boots on the moon, at that point we don’t need probes like these. At that point you just drop a sensor, or whatever experiment you want directly on the surface.

      • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I was looking at it from the perspective of all the failed probes we’ve sent and whether or not the lost costs/missions could be recouped or completed somehow.

        • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          Depends on how long it sits there, the lunar surface has a pretty wide range of temperatures that cause wear, lots of radiation and the regolith is quite abrasive. But realistically by the time something gets there that could put it back it’ll probably not be worth it from anything but a historical standpoint.

          • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            I hadn’t considered the damage from radiation. Thanks for the perspective.

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    6·
    2 days ago

    Seems Firefly Aerospace has got this all sorted, though. Amazing feat for them last week to have a flawless landing.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    6·
    2 days ago

    This could have potentially happened to Apollo 11, had Armstrong not taken over manually to steer clear of the targeted landing site with some rough areas. Maybe it would have been just leaning and not a big deal, but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like. And I would hazard a guess that even though we’ve done a lot over the decades, the polar regions of the Moon are still pretty unknown.