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Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit
Matt_dk writes "Today, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface. This followed a series of three orbit reduction manoeuvres conducted during the past three days by repeatedly firing the spacecraft's 440 Newton Liquid Engine.
The next major event of Chandrayaan-1 mission planned in the coming days is the release of Moon Impact Probe (MIP) from the spacecraft and its eventual hitting of the moon's surface."
Now the moon is going to fall out of the sky.
And I JUST GOT CABLE!
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
So when America returns to the moon, they can look forward to a variety of tasty lunar takeout joints already established by the Indians and Chinese. The resulting outbreaks of explosive diarrhea can be put to good use in terraforming the moon.
can't wait for the bollywood industry to set their hindi love films in space.. (cue dancers)
so did they take pix of the supposed apollo landing site to prove once and for all whether or not the moon landing was fake?
Now we can outsource all of Houston Mission Control's operations to India, it should be a real cost saving measure.
We conspiritards aren't stoopid, we know such pictures can be easily faked.
Now if you want to see some REAL evidence, I have some alien autopsy pics that will BLOW YOUR MIND!
They went to an observatory and had the person show that pointing the laser away from the moon produced no return signal whereas when they pointed the laser at a specific spot on the moon, they did get a signal.
Pfff. That's just the Martians they paid to sit on the moon and respond to lasers.
Bouncing a beam off of the lunar laser ranger demonstrates only that we (or more likely the underlings working for the alien overlords known as the Illuminati) planted the device on the moon. It does not prove that it was placed there during the supposed "Apollo" mission nor does it prove that man has ever escaped Earth's orbit or that the moon is in fact real rather than a sophisticated projection on the outside of our fishbowl. There's actually a documentary where OJ Simpson demonstrates how a similar hoax could be pulled off for a manned Mars landing.
(May the gods help us if anyone interprets the above as anything other than a goofy attempt at humor.)
Seriously, though, good for the Indians. Considering the $$ that the US has shot into space (development, production, etc), and the continued global interest in space exploration, this could be a very valuable market for them.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Mind you it's lucky the Americans haven't set up base permanently, otherwise none of the astronauts who visited would be able to get back into their spaceships and come back. They'd all be too obese to fit through the hatches of their lunar modules from eating the high quality cuisine the USA has given the world, supersized burgers and fries washed down with gallon buckets of coca-cola... ;-)
Are you looking for the phrase "impact on"? Maybe "collision with"? Or even "hit on"? There are a plethora of choices...
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Maybe he's coming back... from the future!
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