Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.
The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.
It was Russia’s first Moon mission in almost 50 years.
The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.
Roskosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, said it lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after running into difficulties.
Well, they actually hit what they were aiming for at least.
So you’re sure it wasn’t supposed to crash on Ukraine?
This region of the pole will henceforth be known as “Lunar Poland”.
Huh. I don’t see any hexbears or Lemmygrads on this thread. Interesting. Can’t complain.
God it is validating to see you say that. I’m new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It’s exhausting.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being a communist.
Putin-fans and Russian bots can go eat a dick, though.
There’s nothing communist about today’s Russia.Also the fact that they all act like /r/the_donald trolls
Nothing makes me less inclined to hear out your opinion when you’re acting like a middle schooler whose trying to look cool in front of his friends lol
They are not communists, they are russian apologists.
They’re tankies.
Tankies used to care about communism. Now they’re just anti-western. They will not question if Russia or China are actually communist because it doesn’t matter. They don’t care about worker protections or freedoms. They only care about “owning the west.”
Yeah I find them rather funny… I’m antiamerican and leftist but many seem to think that it’s a binary and we must choose.
Having actually lived and worked in China for the CPC, I find their idolizing of the modern Chinese nation-state a bit laughable
Fuck Putin, fuck Stalin. Peace to world, glory to science and production, mechanize ancillary work, reduce manual labour.
Here’s a little bit of communism you didn’t want.
Those communists are the ones who built the platform you’re speaking on.
Not communists. (Also, most of them have never made a commit. They didn’t do anything.)
Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn’t matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can’t own it.
I don’t care about their personal beliefs of any one of the contributers. As long as the software works, that’s fine. I like rocketry, but the nazis contributed a lot to that. It doesn’t matter though. It doesn’t change the function of it.
Sure, the original developer runs Lemmygrad. Doesn’t matter. The great thing about FOSS is that no one owns it. There have been many contributers, not just the first person. Also, anyone can fork it if things go bad. No one owns FOSS. You can use it and contribute to it, but you can’t own it.
You sound like communist
Yeah, I would mostly agree with that. More of an anarchist bent, but sure. I’m not a tanky. I have no issue with communism, but I do have an issue with authoritarianism, especially authoritarianism that uses the name communism as a cover while not protecting worker rights and freedoms.
And? I made none of the claims you’re refuting. I just meant this place wouldn’t exist without some of these “communists” and since they made it and were here for years before most of us, it’s not surprising there’s a lot of communist content.
Sure, and the software is pretty good. Nazi rockets were also good. It doesn’t mean anything else is good or valid about them. I don’t care if the creator is a tanky (definitely don’t care if they’re a communist) to enjoy the software. It is a useless point to say they created it as a way to justify anything else being good.
It’s an appeal to false authority and therefore unrelated to the conversation.
It doesn’t mean anything else is good or valid about them
Did I praise someone? I noted that some communists built this platform that’s why you see them here.
It’s an appeal to false authority and therefore unrelated to the conversation.
I did what now?
And? They don’t run anything but their own instances.
Its FOSS. they don’t have any ownership over the platform as a whole. If they started trying to fuck with the lemmy source code for their own agenda, then we’d just fork it and carry on as before
Is someone claiming that communists are fucking with Lemmy code? Where did this come from?
No not at all. The core contributors of lemmy just happen to be communist
They’ve been real quiet since that probe dropped 😂
Isn’t Lemmygrad defederated from this instance
Could be. They aren’t on my home instance. I’ve seen several threads about this and literally none of them, as far as I could see, had any comments from them.
They’re all hiding because they’re ashamed.
There is nothing communistic in Rogozin
Noo, not a Russia!
Somebody better break the news to Hexbear; they were really close.
The “Kaputnik” has landed.
gravity 1/6 karma 1/1
It’d be breaking news if they actually managed to land it successfully.
They will say Nato/US/Ukraine hacked into the spacecraft and made it crash. You heard it here first.
Essentially my narcissistic ex: everything bad that has ever happened to her is someone else’s fault.
Let’s bet on money? I think they won’t.
Luna-25 spacecraft falls out of window onto lunar surface.
So… They were kinda low-key racing India weren’t they? Does this count? Did they win the race? I’m just glad it was unmanned
Not really. That probe was scheduled to go up 10 years ago - with collaboration from India. It’s more a case of India going “F that, we’re doing it ourselves now” - And russia lagging behind so much, they actually got lapped.
India knew is was a clusterfuck from the beginning. They didn’t want to be associated with that junk.
I do find it hard to justify why we give India aid money when they have a space program.
What exactly is hard about it?
Does this mean the moon really exists?
Anyone in the country’s space programme should honestly stay away from any windows or staircases right now.
Sad, hope chandrayaan makes it.
In Soviet Russia, Moon land on you.
which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements
Oh great. We’re going to start destroying the moon now too?
It’s a rock with no air and no life. How can we hurt it?
Yeah between all the other alternatives I think strip mining the moon is pretty OK. It’s not as good as doing nothing - but I’d rather do it on a body with no ecosphere instead of destroying habitats
give us some credit… we can find a way to ruin it for future life…
WTF is ‘future life?’
No air, no water, either blasted by unfiltered sunlight or near absolute zero. It’s a lifeless rock.
okay how about this… we develop terraforming tech in the near future, but something we’re doing to the surface water there now (for example), spoils this process forever on our own Moon… because WE weren’t careful and polluted the environment for them… i think that sounds like something we could accomplish…
The ‘water’ on the Moon is ice buried below the surface.
There is nothing up there.
i’m gonna write that down alright… you’re very helpful…
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It’s the moon. There is no life there.