Chinese land a rover on the moon

by **Spigzy** » Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:05 am

Was expecting to see a picture of a riverside special with some Chinese guys somehow parking their Land/Range Rover on the roof of Le Moon.

Disappointed.

by **maxx** » Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:32 pm

whats the point to going to the moon.

whats the point to any space journeys.

theres nothing like earth to go to

all the money wasted on pointless space journeys spent here on earth saving the environments from short sighted govs would be infinitely better spent

by **jaclu** » Sat Jan 05, 2019 11:53 am

scoffer wrote:Who took the photo ?

The landing craft, after the rover moved away from it

Why are there circular wheel tracks on the right hand side of the photo?

As on the US rovers, the wheels can be turned 90 degrees for turning around it’s axis.

How do we know the photo was taken on the moon ?

If the signal had been faked other space agencies would have called their bluff.

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by **vladimir** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:35 pm

Miguelito wrote:It should be called the "far side" and not "the dark side".

Are you suggesting it was Larsony?

by **YaTingPom** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:47 pm

Garry Crabtree wrote:All this talk of the moon reminds me of an old joke. Why did Michael Jackson invent his famous Moonwalk?

Because it’s a great way to get out of a kids bedroom unheard.

Unless the kids have lino in their bedrooms it’s impossible to moonwalk on carpet.
Also, I don’t really get the joke.

by **Garry Crabtree** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:05 pm

All this talk of the moon reminds me of an old joke. Why did Michael Jackson invent his famous Moonwalk?

Because it’s a great way to get out of a kids bedroom unheard.

by **McPhisto** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:11 am

It turns out this was all a misunderstanding due to incorrect translation. The Chinese actually landed a rover on Madonna's giant new fake butt.

...although that particular region has been previously mapped and explored by many, many men of various races over the past several decades.

by **batshitcrazyweirdo** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:03 am

Miguelito wrote:It should be called the "far side" and not "the dark side".

The phrase "dark side of the Moon" does not refer to "dark" as in the absence of light, but rather "dark" as in unknown: until humans were able to send spacecraft around the Moon, this area had never been seen. While many misconstrue this to think that the "dark side" receives little to no sunlight, in reality, both the near and far sides receive (on average) almost equal amounts of light directly from the Sun. However, the near side also receives sunlight reflected from the Earth, known as earthshine. Earthshine does not reach the area of the far side that cannot be seen from Earth. Only during a full Moon (as viewed from Earth) is the whole far side of the Moon dark. The word "dark" has expanded to refer also to the fact that communication with spacecraft can be blocked while the spacecraft is on the far side of the Moon, during Apollo space missions for example

Hence, the reason they did it.

by **YaTingPom** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:59 am

YaTingPom wrote:Shouldn’t those orbits be elliptical and the earth, moon and sun ste not spherical.

FFS. I wasn’t even drunk and I can’t even remember writing that. I don’t even know what elliptical means. I thought it was a optometrist having a fit.

Damn.

by **scoffer** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:42 am

Who took the photo ?
Why are there circular wheel tracks on the right hand side of the photo.
Why do the top wheel tracks on the left hand side stop and restart at a different place.
How do we know the photo was taken on the moon ?

Poor quality photo shop on behalf of the Chinese.

I bet it's actually in the big man's garage and never left earth.
Fake News !

by **Miguelito** » Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:29 am

It should be called the "far side" and not "the dark side".

The phrase "dark side of the Moon" does not refer to "dark" as in the absence of light, but rather "dark" as in unknown: until humans were able to send spacecraft around the Moon, this area had never been seen. While many misconstrue this to think that the "dark side" receives little to no sunlight, in reality, both the near and far sides receive (on average) almost equal amounts of light directly from the Sun. However, the near side also receives sunlight reflected from the Earth, known as earthshine. Earthshine does not reach the area of the far side that cannot be seen from Earth. Only during a full Moon (as viewed from Earth) is the whole far side of the Moon dark. The word "dark" has expanded to refer also to the fact that communication with spacecraft can be blocked while the spacecraft is on the far side of the Moon, during Apollo space missions for example

by **McPhisto** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:27 pm

China releases it's new "Nine dash line" map claiming their portion of the universe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-Dash_Line

by **YaTingPom** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 10:20 pm

Shouldn’t those orbits be elliptical and the earth, moon and sun ste not spherical.

by **Mèo Đen** » Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:58 pm

Beaker wrote:Why is there light and shadows if it's the dark side of the moon ?

Because it's the sun that casts shadows not the earth!

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