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[–] 153 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The Moon, unprovoked, collided with the Russian vessel that was approaching amicably. An old, whitened but still recognizable USA flag was planted on the Moon's surface, indicating this as a clear act of aggression from the imperialist power

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon

    lol

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

    Glad it was unmanned. There's enough senseless death in the world.

    If you take a look at the lunar missions for space race, you'll see many of them happened within a year of each other. It's a wonder there weren't more failures!

    Compare that to today, where it took almost 20 years of planning for the Hubble telescope to come into fruition.

    You shouldn't rush things in space. This is just the latest reminder.

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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Crewed vs uncrewed is a decision made at the very beginning of the planning stages, years ago. These days a crew is just a gigantic extra expense on a mission with little return. Remotely operated missions can achieve all their scientific objectives.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Manned lunar lander is a mich complex piece of technology which needs to be developed from scratch. It also needs a much more powerful rocket which Russia don't have either. It's at least a decade of extra R&D time even if they get all the funding they need and magically get rid of corruption (which obviously won't happen).

    It's unmanned not because they chose it but because they are literally incapable of making a manned mission (at the very least for a couple of generations).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, "incapable" is still not true. Yet. There are people and even places. Fewer and fewer.

    It's just that nobody really wants anything. All those "big fish" of Russia's current regime - they are corrupt in the full sense of the word, they don't have any goals even of the tragicomedy "USSR restoration" sort. They are all simply being bought and sold by various more coherent dictatorships and factions around.

    I mean, if there was hope for anything else, then that would reflect on the military and a military takeover would have already happened. Maybe not a good thing without context, but that would mean that Russia as a society is not in such deep apathy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What? It clearly states in the article they knew it was risky... I would consider that rushing.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Russia is a world power" 🫡

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    A couple years back, Putin promised to put a Russian on the moon. A good question is "with what rocket?"

    Turns out, an even better question is "with what communications system?" A factor in this crash is that they lack a round-the-world comm system. They can only communicate when the moon is visible over Russia. It's a big country, of course, but not big enough for 24/7 communication.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Good, because they would most probably use it to plant their stupid Z swastika on the moon, because nobody could stop them there.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "All Russia-hating Nazis were eliminated at the crash site."

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Oh well,... Anyway

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've played my share of Kerbel Space Program.

    The lander made a planned flight to the moon, which included a high acceleration parking maneuver which resulted in unquestionable sucesss! To the Mun!

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  • [–] [B] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.

    The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole, but failed after encountering problems as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

    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.

    Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, said on Sunday morning that it had lost contact with the Luna-25 shortly after 14:57pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday.

    "The apparatus moved into an unpredictable orbit and ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the surface of the Moon," it said in a statement.

    Russia has been racing to the Moon's south pole against India, whose Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on there next week.


    The original article contains 174 words, the summary contains 141 words. Saved 19%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh No! . . . . . . . . Anyway!

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    On brand for Putin

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    This is what happens when one vodka's and drives.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    They were looking for the Iron-Sky but got intercepted

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  • [–] [B] 0 points 2 years ago