• Welcome to the new Internet Infidels Discussion Board, formerly Talk Freethought.

Anomalies.

DBT

DBT

Contributor
Joined
May 2, 2003
Messages
14,735
Location
ɹǝpunuʍop puɐן
The latest from China's Rover;

''China’s Yutu 2 rover has spotted a mystery object on the horizon while working its way across Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon.

Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 260 feet (80 meters) away in November during the mission's 36th lunar day, according to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).

Our Space referred to the object as a "mystery hut" (神秘小屋/shenmi xiaowu), but this a placeholder name rather than an accurate description.''

hnVnEqyeFUAKDfQ84At2Mn-970-80.jpg
 
It might be a Tardis, but the history of astronomy and the far away things we see, is full of disappointment. There is no monument to Elvis Presley on Mars.
 
Sometimes a squared shaped object is just a squared shaped object.

An ET garbage can?

Was theire a high pitched whine and and a radio signal directed at an outer planet.


China will probably claim it is an ancient Chinese artifact that proves China owns the moon.
 
I take it that mechanics of NASCAR racers didn't have any input into the design of that rover. It would be a shame if, after taking 80 days to streak over to investigate, it is found to be just an ordinary rock and it was just pixilation that made it look square.
 
skepticalbip said:
I take it that mechanics of NASCAR racers didn't have any input into the design of that rover. It would be a shame if, after taking 80 days to streak over to investigate, it is found to be just an ordinary rock and it was just pixilation that made it look square.
Click to expand...

Rovers are delicate things (last I knew it was $1M/kg to the lunar surface, although there is probably some economy of scale) with a very limited power budget and there are no roads out there. Every move is carefully planned.
 
I suppose it doesn't matter that it will turn out to be a rock, the sensation of mystery will have served its purpose in drumming up public interest. When this is resolved, something else should come up.
 
skepticalbip said:
Update:
www.slashgear.com

That "Moon Cube" Mystery? Scientists Have An Explanation

In December the world was hooked on the mystery of the odd-looking cube spotted on the Moon's surface by the Chinese rover Yutu-2. Now, a…
www.slashgear.com www.slashgear.com

China has released an image of the "mystery hut" with a bit more resolution:
Click to expand...
Everybody knew it was going to be a rock, but if you look to the left, there's a soccer ball at the edge of it's shadow.
 
When the moon is colonized who is going to clean up all the abandoned rovers? Is there any toxic waste?

China is obsessed with being seen on a par with the USA and west in general. A little attention puts China in the global space news.
 
steve_bank said:
When the moon is colonized who is going to clean up all the abandoned rovers?
Click to expand...
They are few in number, and tiny. The amount of abandoned material on the Lunar surface is so small that if we didn't know where to look for it, it would be very hard to find.

The Moon is a big place - about five times the area of the continental US - so a half dozen lunar module descent stages and a handful of rovers and other probes add up to essentially nothing.

If there was an abandoned car (just one, and no other artefacts at all), somewhere in the USA, how urgent would you feel it was to clean it up before you started a colony there?
Is there any toxic waste?
Click to expand...
The lunar surface is instantly fatal to life anyway. What possible issue could arise if it were absolutely littered with toxic waste?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom