I never thought I’d have any reason to share this link, but here we are. This woman had her anus removed…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gXCbI2_pQfU

Ah, but it did send data back before the battery ran down, at least enough data to confirm it fell over when it landed.

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Here’s an idea:

Let’s make all clocks where no matter what time of the year it is, 6am is always when the sun rises, noon is when the sun is exactly overhead, and 6pm is always when the sun sets.

Sure, the length of an ‘hour’ would be constantly changing, yeah that wouldn’t get super confusing real quick… /s

Not directly, no. But my late father was a nuclear reactor cooling technician, I did learn quite a bit more than the average person.

Being tipped over doesn’t inherently stop all of its equipment from working, I’m sure at least some of the sensors could otherwise still work, if they had power.

Even if only 10% of the sensors and equipment could still work, 10% would still be better than 0%.

We have uranium in our tap water here. As long as it remains less that 43 parts per million, they consider it ‘safe’. With hundreds of millions of dollars to throw around, it can’t be all that difficult to filter enough uranium out for the energy for a two week mission.

And it was a private spacecraft, not made by NASA (although it carried some of their sensors and equipment).

‘They aren’t being made anymore’

Yep, I think we’ve identified at least part of the problem. Once humans figure out a technology that can last decades, we test it, verify it works, and then stop using it in favor of cheaper shit meant to fail as fast as a dozen eggs rot…

I don’t need to check Firefly’s guidance system. The Athena team should check into that though, apparently this is their second similar failure.

Send them the email, not me, I’m just a nobody.

Quite true. Strangely, here on Earth they have smart robots that you can literally kick over sideways, and their sensors and hydraulics and stuff kick right in and set them back upright.

If you’re gonna dump hundreds of millions of dollars into such a project, why not utilize all known, available, and proven technology?

Yay!

Now do…

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Meanwhile, they now have nuclear diamond batteries. Hell, the Voyagers have been running on aging plutonium for nearly 50 years.

You’d figure a modern expensive system like that might have a modern secondary power source, at least enough juice to run for two weeks FFS…

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They’ll either make the phones dumb again, or make the batteries replaceable again.

If they do the latter, they’ll probably just make them even thinner, requiring you to replace them more often.

Also, our next lunar eclipse occurs in the next 6 days, how the fuck they expect that to work on solar power in the first place even if it did land correctly?

Nah, solar is the obvious choice in space near the sun, and by not borking it up by landing sideways in a crater on the south pole of the moon.

Very limited scope for solar power, it don’t work after landing sideways in a crater on the south pole.

Edit: By the way, our next lunar eclipse is in 6 days, do you really think that thing would go uninterrupted, even if it did land correctly?

It landed sideways like 250 meters away from the intended landing zone. Did you know the moon has way more craters than Earth?

Craters = Shadows

The thing ain’t got no sunlight yo, and its laying sideways in the shade, so no power…

Nope, totally normal. You’ll know when it’s time to go to sleep…

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Solar power? On the south pole of the moon?

That would just barely work on its own, even if the thing didn’t topple over.