https://mobile.twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1170023398233268225
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Way to ruin a story, thanks.
At least now I know who to sue. I wonder if he has deep pockets
It’s mainly because the people with deep pockets don’t want to support sites that could eventually lead to people going after them. There’s a reason why right wing stuff doesn’t have the same problem, and it’s because it’s so much easier for them to back the right wing stuff to protect their maniez.
India is about to land a probe on the South Pole of the Moon.
Watch it live:
EDIT: It’s looking like they didn’t succeed
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1170069633526665216
A man who planted a spy camera in the female toilets of the studios where the latest James Bond film is being made has been jailed.
Peter Hartley, a convicted sex offender, used a miniature camera triggered by motion and vibration and positioned it behind a grill in the WCs at Pinewood Studios, west London, to try to record women on the lavatory on 21 June.
I can’t tell at all what’s going on here. Right as you updated, I saw some woman get up, and a guy holding his head in his hands next to her. They haven’t given any updates as to what’s going on yet that I’ve heard.
From the tweet it looks like when they got to around 3 km above the lunar surface they lost control of the vehicle and it went from a controlled descent into a tumble. It’s hard to tell exactly how fast they were going, roughly again based on the short tweet video it looks like they were going ~200 meters/second, so they lost control about 15-20 seconds before the planned landing.
Another reminder that space is hard.
In the NASA tweet you posted, the animation was turning over. Was that not supposed to happen?
They haven’t said anything on the live feed in about 10 minutes, and most people are still just sitting there. It looked like the guy who had his head in his hands was being consoled by a group of people earlier up on a balcony.
Nope, generally you want the fiery end pointing down.
This picture shows where things went bad:
Red line is the ideal trajectory, green is actual, and up until ~2 km they were nailing it.
Got it, that was a little hard to follow on the feed, as I didn’t know what the lines meant. It falling that far off the intended trajectory looks quite bad.
Did they bring that goo back to earth yet so it can quickly end this farce we call civilization?
Still counts as a landing.
Too soon, man, too soon.