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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 week ago

I'd like to share a design concept with IM given that this is their second moon topple:

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I mean, you're not wrong. A low center of mass is legitimately a good idea.

[-] HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down!

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The first one fell over and sank into the ~~swamp~~ crater.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Sooooo we built another one

[-] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] makyo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

- 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.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 29 points 1 week ago

Breaking news, space is really really hard

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not space that's hard. It's the stuff you encounter when you run out of space that's hard.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Like when you run into me bc I'm hard 4 u bb. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

A hard void.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

When one day we get people back on the moon, is there a chance these devices could be brought back online?

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Brought back*

No need for this trash on the moon, even if it works.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

More likely salvaged as part of a permanent moon base.

[-] bamboo 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This was a plot point in The Martian which was pretty neat. There was also an episode of Futurama which was also neat

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well, if we have boots on the moon, at that point we don't need probes like these. At that point you just drop a sensor, or whatever experiment you want directly on the surface.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I was looking at it from the perspective of all the failed probes we’ve sent and whether or not the lost costs/missions could be recouped or completed somehow.

Depends on how long it sits there, the lunar surface has a pretty wide range of temperatures that cause wear, lots of radiation and the regolith is quite abrasive. But realistically by the time something gets there that could put it back it'll probably not be worth it from anything but a historical standpoint.

[-] veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I hadn’t considered the damage from radiation. Thanks for the perspective.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

Whoopsi-doodles. Well, more spare parts on the Moon, all the same.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Landing a fridge on those spindly little legs did seem a bit... optimistic...

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I really don't understand the tall moon lander strategy... I mean, if you're going to design it with a high center of gravity, then design it to fall over... Just use two landing legs instead of four, to ensure it falls over the right way. Then you put the solar panels on the side, so that when it topples over they're facing up.

I've literally done this in Kerbal space program, it's a pretty reliable landing system if your probe is tall.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Company that topled a mooncraft... topled another mooncraft.

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

He's dead, Jim.

[-] Talaraine@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Seems Firefly Aerospace has got this all sorted, though. Amazing feat for them last week to have a flawless landing.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

…but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like…

Surveyor - “What am I? Chopped liver???”

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