To The Moon

[AN2]

I've come to the conclusion that engineering is the only real demonstration of science.
Either it's working or breaking.

When I watched the Apollo 17 documentary I posted above I was reminded of this from the movie Apollo 13, the CO2 problem -


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYzkyXp0jg

Cernan accidentally broke a fender on the lunar rover and when the repair on the Moon didn't work, overnight Houston (using knowledge of the inventory) devised this.. Not quite as dramatic but reminiscent nonetheless

Problem

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DCyayAZbog&t=31m23s

Solution

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4DCyayAZbog&t=44m9s

 

[Declan]

A privately built spacecraft has successfully landed on the moon

The robotic lander, dubbed Blue Ghost, touched down on the lunar surface early Sunday. It’s a feat that only one other private company has ever accomplished.

www.nbcnews.com

Landing in an hour

 

[Declan]

Private US spaceship successfully lands on Moon
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0302/1499716-blue-ghost/

Dumb fuckers in RTE describe the craft as being as big as a hippopotamus despite nobody in Ireland knowing how big that is

 

[Mad as Fish]

They are just reading from the press release.

 

[jpc]

Private US spaceship successfully lands on Moon
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0302/1499716-blue-ghost/

Dumb fuckers in RTE describe the craft as being as big as a hippopotamus despite nobody in Ireland knowing how big that is

Speak for yourself.
They're big yokes.
Unless it's the Pygmy variant.

 

[clarke-connolly]

Speak for yourself.
They're big yokes.
Unless it's the Pygmy variant.

Extremely aggressive as well ~ ~ Does a fit Hippopotamus have any opposition ?

 

[Mad as Fish]

Extremely aggressive as well ~ ~ Does a fit Hippopotamus have any opposition ?

Sounds like yer average traveler lass, except the really fit ones are probably doing porn.

 

[SeekTheFairLand]

Extremely aggressive as well ~ ~ Does a fit Hippopotamus have any opposition ?

In the South; Fianna fail and Fine Gael.
In the North the DUP and the SDLP

 

[clarke-connolly]

In the South; Fianna fail and Fine Gael.
In the North the DUP and the SDLP

They are more Harpo's than Hippo's ! !

 

[Declan]

In Sept 2024, it was scheduled to do a crewed fly by and around the moon. It is postponed many times and the date now is April 2026. That remains to be seen

 

[AN2]

Looks round

 

[Hermit]

View: https://x.com/RobotPolisher/status/1912144051500884117

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGCwTZGYDdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ys7TvfS-j8

Butterfly and one-eye symbolism: