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China's moon lander sprouted a plant, but now it's dead
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| January 15, 2019 2:28 PM PST
| Amanda Kooser
Posted on 01/15/2019 3:46:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:46:21 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:48:48 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: BenLurkin
The experiment’s chief designer, Xie Gengxin of Chongqing University, told Xinhua that life inside the canister would not survive the lander’s first lunar night, which started on Sunday.
under the communist system, CYA...
..
Xinhua, you are fired.
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:52:50 PM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: BenLurkin
This will not stop China from claiming the moon as their national territory.
Can’t wait to hear about how in the 6th century some Chinese guy did some random thing that makes such a claim legitimate.
(This is me rolling my eyes at the arrogance of the Chinese)
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:54:28 PM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: BenLurkin
The radiation hitting it must be intense.
To: Doogle
At reast their runar rander works.
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:55:09 PM PST
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: doorgunner69
The problem with Chinese lunar landers is that after touchdown an hour later you want to take off and do it again.
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:58:10 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: MeganC
...it’s on the utra side (the dark side)....
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:58:40 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: PeterPrinciple
..never to be heard or seen again
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posted on
01/15/2019 3:59:37 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: BenLurkin
It’s hard to get excited about an unmanned probe, even on the dark side of the moon. Wake me up when they send a man to the moon. Given the computer-assisted guidance systems developed since Neil Armstrong’s moon walk, this should be much easier to do today. And yet - despite the hoopla - the Chinese have yet to replicate what NASA did during the Flintstone era of computing.
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:01:48 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
To: BenLurkin
This reminds me of a song by Pink Floyd.
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:03:45 PM PST
by
wjcsux
(The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
To: BenLurkin
What they need is a solar powered mobile cement factory that roams the lunar surface, scoops up regolith, and craps out structural building blocks of known engineering properties. Water might be the limiting factor here.
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:10:54 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: BenLurkin
The Chinese should have sent some of these...
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:32:19 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: doorgunner69
the radiation hitting that little rape seed will turn it into an Audrey (Little Shop of Horrors)
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:37:05 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
(“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: BenLurkin
The cotton seed was the only one to sprout
= = =
So the Chinese want to grow cotton.
And then import ‘folks’ to pick it.
RASSSIST!!!
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:39:16 PM PST
by
Scrambler Bob
(You know that I am full of /S)
To: BenLurkin
we’ll see if their lander wakes up after lunar night.
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:40:37 PM PST
by
Rio
To: SpaceBar
If you have a furnace that is hot enough...
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:56:07 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/15/2019 4:56:44 PM PST
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: BenLurkin
A team from Chongqing University in China developed a sealed biosphere habitat stocked with seeds, fruit fly eggs and yeast that it hoped would create a mini-ecosystem. The cotton seed was the only one to sprout. The experiment also contained potato and oilseed rape seeds. Is this the formula for Godzilla?
To: Zhang Fei
"And yet - despite the hoopla - the Chinese have yet to replicate what NASA did during the Flintstone era of computing." In fairness, neither has NASA, at least in terms of human lunar landings.
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posted on
01/15/2019 6:11:27 PM PST
by
buckalfa
(I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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