• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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        Landing in the moon’s polar region is much harder than landing in the equatorial region. This is the first successful landing on the moon’s South Pole.

        Luna-25 was also aiming for the poles; the Russians already know how to do a normal lunsr landing.

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        While I understand your headspace. Space isn’t easy even with modern tech for any nation (or company in the case of the private launch sector). They didn’t have the benefit of the Space Race injecting mad money and manpower like the US and the USSR did (shit is hard to justify spending money on while still being on the newer side of certain industrial development as a nation). They also had to make their own systems to get there. Even SpaceX still has failures to land their first stage boosters after getting it pretty well figured out. Just a crazy amount of variables means it will fail majorly if any random one is wrong. Even if they had failed to land, it would still be worth some respect for even getting on target. I think that once AI is much more mature (and not just a large language model that tends to just make shit up that sounds correct but isn’t), then I think your stance would be more correct. As the ship itself would be able to deal with all of it with or without input from earth. Would also be better at making the tough calls to abort or proceed without any emotions/stress causing bad decisions.

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          What di you mean. There was no real time control. Landing instructions were provided well ahead of time and onboard systems too control through out from 30kms to touch down including the precise spot which was done from 800meters off.

          I dont know how many would classify that as AI but it was an autonomous system landing.

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          I think you guys should pay attention to more important things than someone landing his shoes somewhere

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            If a person without a nation state’s budget behind him can land an object even one the size of a shoe on the moon that would be a major scientific breakthrough and an incredible engineering achievement.

            Simply the economics of the feat would basically instantly revolutionise a whole host of industries. Even spaceX who’s whole thing is making the economics of space reasonable is nowhere close .

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              I don’t, logic does. If india were to take care of the poverty plaguing the country and shit like the caste system in a bunch of years the space program and all sort of research would benefit for the universal wealth produced by a fair society

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                Well you’re not being logical, you’re being irrational.

                Without the space program, there is no motivation to fix the poverty problem. Or the technology, resources or education. Your priorities are just all out of whack.

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                  Without the space program, there is no motivation to fix the poverty problem.

                  dafuq?

                  The fact india has a space program while a good chunk of the population still live in huts sounds like a joke to me

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                    That’s because it’s only now starting to industrialize, and that’s due in no small part to them forming a space program.

                    Space is so vitally important not just for access to resources and clean energy but for the most important assets we have: our psyches. Space inspires, it bolsters education, it gives people reason to have faith in their country and keep going, it brings peace and love and joy. It’s the lifeblood that drives the engines of science and progress in a peaceful way.

                    It gives people something to strive for, something to actually live for instead of only focusing on survival, like you have. It unifies while your mindset divides. It fosters cooperation while you foster conflict.

                    It’s the most important thing we are doing as a species, and India will benefit far more from having a Moon program than trying to convince people to give up thousands of years’ worth of traditional living for no reason.

                    You’re drawing a false dichotomy anyway; without the resources in space, India won’t be able to industrialize cleanly nor will any country. We simply don’t have enough resources on the Earth to provide an average American lifestyle for everyone on the planet which India especially is going to strive for regardless of the cost, so it’s either expand into space or collapse into climate hell.

                    Grow or die. You can stay down here and die if you want; I choose to grow and so does India apparently