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.
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And he's so full of hot air he doesn't even need a suit.
He would try to smoke the moon regolith and come up with some rad ideas. Occupy Moon! Yeeeeaah
That would be awesome. It's pretty much super asbestos.
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.
Elon in his Cave Johnson era and we're here for it
Had me in the first half, ngl
Haha, that was the idea 🤣
I'd like to share a design concept with IM given that this is their second moon topple:
Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!
I mean, you're not wrong. A low center of mass is legitimately a good idea.
The first one fell over and sank into the ~~swamp~~ crater.
Sooooo we built another one
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.
But I just want to sing
- Not to leave the room... even if you come and get him.
No, no. Until I come and get him.
- Until you come and get him, we're not to enter the room.
No, no, no... etc.
Breaking news, space is really really hard
It's not space that's hard. It's the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that's hard.
Well that's a facepalm of a faceplant 😂
You'd almost think that by now they might have learned something from the Voyager 1 and 2 power systems and not relied completely on solar power...
The biggest problem with RTGs is the extreme cost and lack of availability. Pu-238 is very expensive and at any moment, there's only tens of KG of Pu-238 available for RTG use. They're not really a reasonable choice for private industry at this time.
They also used the same design of a prior craft that met the same fate. But private industry are problem solvers. 🙄
Eh... I think they should stick to solar power. Given how much trouble they've been having, let's not give them any weapons grade isotopes...
For what it's worth, just last week, Firefly stuck the landIng on their first attempt. They're seriously killing it these days, I'm happy for them.
When one day we get people back on the moon, is there a chance these devices could be brought back online?
More likely salvaged as part of a permanent moon base.
Whoopsi-doodles. Well, more spare parts on the Moon, all the same.
He's dead, Jim.
Company that topled a mooncraft... topled another mooncraft.
Landing a fridge on those spindly little legs did seem a bit... optimistic...
Athena (goddess of wisdom and war, strange combo).
Why?
There is no wisdom in war.
For some, war is not a choice
Seems Firefly Aerospace has got this all sorted, though. Amazing feat for them last week to have a flawless landing.
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.
…but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like…
Surveyor - “What am I? Chopped liver???”