Posted on 10/24/2019 8:25:53 AM PDT by oh8eleven
Well Engineers in India are kind of like the Cuban Olympic swim team - Anyone who can - left
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LOL!
You’re probably right. A velocity and/or terrain problem. Aren’t there areas of talcum powder like fines? Pieces could be buried in some of that, or even coated in some of that kicked up by the impact. So not as reflective (natural camo) as expected.
Yep
Yes, we have decades of experience shooting things into the air, circling the earth and even other planets and the sun. We're pretty good at that. It's like asking a kid to throw a ball....even the youngest of children can throw a ball.
Landing equipment successfully on another celestial body like the moon, Mars, Venus, etc...well, we have a mixed experience AND not as many attempts. Using my analogy from before, this is like asking that kid to CATCH the ball; it's a different skill set and requires greater coordination.
Anyone who wants to board a hunk of equipment and go to Mars should look at the win/loss ratio of mankind actually LANDING something elsewhere. You may want to reconsider all of that time and effort, leaving behind friends and family, only to lose it all in the last moments because someone forgot to convert from MPH to KPH.
More fodder for the Ancient Aliens TV show on the History Channel.
ohmygodiamtellingyoufromtheheartofmyverybottom
Sure it made it to the moon. It more likely crashed into the Ganges.
Something or someone took the lander. Could it be... space monkeys?
Well look at this crap... someone hacked my certificate. This is the second time this same entity did this.
Seems the landing was on a pole (southern, IIRC) so it’s somewhere really hard to look at. There’s just no good vantage points for high res cameras available. Hard impact may have left little to see a la a pancake on a parking lot, and you’re on the far side of said lot).
You do know that Velcro was one of the factors in the Apollo 1 fire?
In addition to being so useful that they put scads of it up, its plastic was O2 loving, increasing the number of oxygen molecules available for combustion...
re: “When they lost contact ..”
I was ‘there’, watching the live webcast. Know all about it.
Yep! :-)
*ping*
has anyone asked the dark-side Chinese what they did with it?
I think the generation of the War of Independence is the “Greatest Generation”, with Washington, the Indispensable Man, as the greatest American.
It was supposed to use solid fuel, but nothing is solid in India.
Hindu, or Hindon’t?
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