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China says its spacecraft lands on Moon's far side
BBC ^ | June 2, 2024 | Georgina Rannard,Laura Bicker

Posted on 06/02/2024 7:47:05 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie

China says its uncrewed craft has successfully landed on the far side of the Moon - an unexplored place almost no-one tries to go.

The Chang'e 6 touched down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin at 06:23 Beijing time on Sunday morning (22:23 GMT Saturday), the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.

Launched on 3 May, the mission aims to collect precious rock and soil from this region for the first time in history.

The probe could extract some of the Moon's oldest rocks from a huge crater on its South Pole.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: China; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; moon
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To: The_Media_never_lie

LOL...thanks for the Sunday morning chuckle! Good one.


21 posted on 06/02/2024 8:10:57 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

22 posted on 06/02/2024 8:11:23 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Is China choosing the far side of the moon to keep everyone else from observing what they are up to??


23 posted on 06/02/2024 8:12:59 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: brownsfan
Add that the USA just can't build anything anymore.
Why Johnny Can’t Build
By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox
May 29, 2024
Blame decades of dumbed-down education and the government paying for useless "studies" degrees (via bad education loans) instead of creating incentives for STEM degrees.
24 posted on 06/02/2024 8:16:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

LOL...thanks for the Sunday morning chuckle! Good one.

*************

I thought it was funny, too! But I have a twisted sense of humor and can’t tell if others will think the same.

It is fun to make fun of the ChiComms. I would not last long in China.😉


25 posted on 06/02/2024 8:18:12 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( It is time to prosecute the "10% for the Big Guy" guy.)
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To: PIF

We not see your cat; don’t ask!


26 posted on 06/02/2024 8:19:10 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( It is time to prosecute the "10% for the Big Guy" guy.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

There is lots of appreciation of a twisted sense of humor here on FR. Keep it up!


27 posted on 06/02/2024 8:20:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

GET OFF OUR MOON!


28 posted on 06/02/2024 8:20:45 AM PDT by Lazamataz (We're next.)
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To: FlyingEagle

We get signal.


29 posted on 06/02/2024 8:22:26 AM PDT by Lazamataz (We're next.)
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To: Angelino97
It's pointless to go to the moon.

Have you ever tried to develop a national space program?

You don't make the jump from airplanes, to interplanetary travel, and all the civil and military systems associated with it, in one go.

30 posted on 06/02/2024 8:23:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Angelino97

“A rat done bit my sister Nell....”


31 posted on 06/02/2024 8:24:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Pan fried pork dumplings at 1/6 gravity would have a nice, light quality.


32 posted on 06/02/2024 8:27:37 AM PDT by JimmyTheFish
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To: PIF

</chuckle>


33 posted on 06/02/2024 8:29:04 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Angelino97

“It’s pointless to go to the moon.”


This means that as the sun ages, it gets steadily brighter. The dinosaurs knew a dimmer sun than we see today, and in as little as a few hundred million years, Earth will get too hot to handle.

Our atmosphere will get stripped away. Our oceans will evaporate. For awhile, we’ll look something like Venus, locked in a choking, carbon dioxide atmosphere.

And then it gets worse.

https://www.space.com/solar-system-fate-when-sun-dies


34 posted on 06/02/2024 8:30:33 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Second time they’ve done it. I think they are going to declare the far side of the moon Chinese territory.


35 posted on 06/02/2024 8:35:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Good one! You know, of course, if you take the N out of China, you are left with Chia. Which of course is how China has grown...just sayin’.


36 posted on 06/02/2024 8:37:22 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Is there a supply of cats up there we don’t know about?


37 posted on 06/02/2024 8:39:55 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: The_Media_never_lie

How is this evenly possible? How can they even see? Isn’t it always dark over there? Isn’t that what our head of NASA or some other bigwig expert claimed?


38 posted on 06/02/2024 8:44:13 AM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I would also ask “how are they doing this?“

Do they have an orbiting lunar satellite that relays data?

I’m skeptical.


39 posted on 06/02/2024 8:45:56 AM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: caww

So if they put in 3 more bases, they could play baseball.


40 posted on 06/02/2024 8:45:56 AM PDT by Thomas Jerome
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