India have landed on the moon's south pole

[bobzmyunkle]

I don't know, but there's already a Bolllywood film in the making - called Paprika One

The first part of that is probably true.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Is there any evidence yet that this landing was faked?

Oh FFS! 😆

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Oh FFS! 😆

Just to be clear, I was using the term 'evidence' somewhat loosely. It's probably out there if you look for it.

 

[Drago]

Parts of the southern pole end are in permanent shadow, that's why they are looking for ice there to answer @Mings question, does that count as the dark side of the moon? The "side" we cant see is indeed not dark, nor made of cheese one suspects.

Aye lad, I know why the sarf pole is of interest. Sadly the lander hasn't quite gone there and as a simple technology demonstrator it isn't equipped to do a massive amount of science.

 

[Venod]

Alas, there is no dark side or the moon. This is why the album has always annoyed me greatly.

But, I think they realised this, as the last line of Eclipse shows.

Eclipse
(Waters) 2: 04

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

 

[Time Waster]

Technology demonstrator is any demonstrating the technology to get there not what science they did there. Indian space program will be one of a few delivery organisations for commercial and state bodies. It'll be good money. Landing on the moon is good for showing your expertise off since not many have done it safely and fewer been there lately.

They did it cheaply compared to others getting into the space delivery sector. They didn't crash like the Russians who've been there before nearer the equator which is easier to achieve. The Russians haven't successfully been on the moon since 30 plus years ago. Who has? China! But they lost contact with their rover.

Whether space race is more important than getting rid of the wealth gap that's another issue. One that I doubt America, Russia, China, the eu/ UK have sorted out yet neither. We certainly can't get on our high horse over wealth inequality matters vs space programmes.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Technology demonstrator is any demonstrating the technology to get there not what science they did there. Indian space program will be one of a few delivery organisations for commercial and state bodies. It'll be good money. Landing on the moon is good for showing your expertise off since not many have done it safely and fewer been there lately.

They did it cheaply compared to others getting into the space delivery sector. They didn't crash like the Russians who've been there before nearer the equator which is easier to achieve. The Russians haven't successfully been on the moon since 30 plus years ago. Who has? China! But they lost contact with their rover.

Whether space race is more important than getting rid of the wealth gap that's another issue. One that I doubt America, Russia, China, the eu/ UK have sorted out yet neither. We certainly can't get on our high horse over wealth inequality matters vs space programmes.

The " Russians " have never been on the Moon. The Soviet Union have, their Rocket Scientists and Engineers were largely from Ukraine. 46 years since the Soviets landed on the moon.
The Chinese have been very successful, they landed on the far side of the moon in 2018 and successfully deployed a lunar rover, in 2020 they successfully launched a lunar orbiter and lunar lander which collected 1750 grammes of Lunar samples, took off and rendezvoused with the orbiter before successfully returning them back to earth. They're also planning a Lunar orbiter, lander and rover to visit the Aitken basin at the lunar South Pole for a sample return mission in May of next year.
Scott Manley has an excellent space focused YouTube channel, and the Science writers at Ars Technica cover space stuff and there's a Weekly " Rocket Report " newsletter that is a free subscription.

 

[classic33]

Where's @Nihal when you need him?

He might have had some hand in it!

 

[Seevio]

Although amateur level pedants may try and score points by trying to tell you there is no dark side of the moon, there is always a dark side. This is the side that faces away from the sun. Admittedly this side changes as the moon spins but there is always a dark side...

 

[stephec]

The burning question though, have they found the Clangers?

 

[tyred]

Big deal. My cow jumped over it years ago.

 

[classic33]

Big deal. My cow jumped over it years ago.

You didn't warm your hands before you started milking her?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

From a Hitchhiker's Guide page on Facebook...:

"Great that both NASA and ESA are using the (ad)verb ‘soft-land’ to describe anything that isn’t a rapid unscheduled disassembly."

 

[Drago]

Although amateur level pedants...

Cough. BSc Planetary Studies, MSc Celestial Mechanics.

Pedant and proud, but absolutely no amateur.

 

[classic33]

I call bullshit!

It were a cow he were trying to milk, no bull.