Chinese land a rover on the moon

[McPhisto]

China successfully lands spacecraft on far side of moon, state media says


BEIJING, May 21, 2018 -- Photo taken by the landform camera on the Chang'e-3 moon lander on Dec. 16, 2013 shows the Yutu moon rover during Chang'e-3 lunar probe mission's first lunar day circle. (Xinhua via Getty Images)

China successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon Thursday, becoming the first country to ever land on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, state news media said.

The official China Central Television said the lunar explorer Chang'e 4 had touched down at 10:26 a.m.

Zhu Menghua, a professor at Macau University of Science and Technology who worked with Beijing on the mission, said the mission’s success is a major milestone for the country and establishes it as a pioneer in space exploration.

"We Chinese people have done something that the Americans have not dared try," he said, according to The New York Times.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/china-s ... media-says

Congratulations on China's achievement professor, but the US has been kinda busy landing rovers on Mars for decades and sending spacecraft billions of miles to transmit back images of objects outside our solar system. But you beat them to the far side of the fucking moon. The Americans wouldn't dare attempt that. Well played! How long before you build a casino there?

[Beaker]

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

[YaTingPom]

It still gets sunlight.
“Far side of the moon” would be more apt.

[YaTingPom]

Land Rover Discovery I bet.

[Mèo Đen]

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!

[YaTingPom]

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

[McPhisto]

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



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

[Miguelito]

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

[scoffer]

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 !

[YaTingPom]

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.

[batshitcrazyweirdo]

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.

[McPhisto]

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.

[Garry Crabtree]

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.

[YaTingPom]

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.