Going to the moon in 2024

[Justin]

Doesn't NASA have like an entire room full of moon rocks that they haven't even looked at yet?

Off topic: does it bug you that your descriptor has an incorrectly used apostrophe?

[Irving]

Yeah, but do you honestly think that NASA is going to give samples of moon rocks to our only geopolitical near-peer adversary?

Also, the Chinese sample return mission is just one mission that's part of a larger plan to eventually put a Chinese astronaut (Sinonaut?) on the moon.

I wasn't suggesting that we share, just verifying what I heard was true. If China discovered something we've been sleeping on for decades we'll look dumb.

Off topic: does it bug you that your descriptor has an incorrectly used apostrophe?

Everything about my descriptor bothers me, but it's probably how I come off to most members. There's nothing I can do about it so it doesn't occupy any time/space in my mind until someone brings it up.

[WETWRKS]

This is certainly an extreme way to escape COVID...

And in other news...anyone want to buy in at ground level on the flat Mars society?

[Aloha_Shooter]

Doesn't NASA have like an entire room full of moon rocks that they haven't even looked at yet?

It looks like the PRC is following a classic systems engineering approach by building on successes step-by-step. They put a relay satellite in orbit around the Moon, dropped a rover on the far side in a "first ever" mission that boosted national pride, and are now in the process of demonstrating safe return of samples. These are are critical steps.

One of my favorite demonstrations of mission planning or systems engineering was in "From the Earth to the Moon":

[Irving]

That's exactly the video I was thinking of when I posted.

[Justin]

SpaceX flight test and landing of the Super Heavy Lift Starship was aborted today at literally the last second.

They're going to retry tomorrow.

[MrPrena]

Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1250333

[Justin]

Everything about my descriptor bothers me, but it's probably how I come off to most members. There's nothing I can do about it so it doesn't occupy any time/space in my mind until someone brings it up.

I am Jack's sense of mild annoyance.

[arbol]

lol, Justin!

[Irving]

I'm Jack's ability to not say things out loud that Jack is thinking, and I haven't shown up to work in years.