Chinese Moon Rover Says an Early Goodnight

hackingbear writes "The Chinese moon rover, Jade Rabbit, encountered an abnormality in its control mechanism before its planned sleep during the 14-day-long lunar night. In the form of a diary, the Jade Rabbit said, "The shi-fu ('kung-fu masters,' meaning the scientists and engineers) are working around the clock trying to fix the problem and their eyes look like a rabbit's (red due to fatigue), but I may not be able to survive over this lunar night." (translated, original in Chinese.) The rover landed on the moon on Dec 14 and was designed to operate for three months."

Comments

Made in China

[Anonymous Coward]

They just don't make rovers like they use to

Re:Made in China

[Anonymous Coward]

Made in China, means that it will fail prematurely, if not, it will explode, poison or kill someone in the process.

Re:Enought with the nationalist crap

[tippe]

Maybe we should just use "hear here", just to cover all of our bases. That's what I do, anyway.

3 month warranty!

[assemblerex]

Limited warranty, 90 days.

Re:3 month warranty!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yea, just return it in original packaging for a full replacement.

Re:Enought with the nationalist crap

[Rick Zeman]

Maybe we should just use "hear here", just to cover all of our bases.

Their, there, now.

Re: Figures

[Rick Zeman]

I'm curious what made in USA piece of electronics you're using to write that comment ...

How about a Lenovo on its 3rd motherboard?

Re:Brief translation from Chinese

[LifesABeach]

So, when is the next China mission to the Moon?

I guess cheap knock offs don't work well on the moon either.

Re:Meanwhile, back in America

[Anonymous Coward]

XKCD cultists always make me sad.

Re:Only one page of comments

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but other than movable type printing, a calendar that was as accurate as the Gregorian but developed hundreds of years earlier, percussive cap drilling that was capable of the deepest wells in the early 19th century, paper currency, watertight compartments partitioning ships, dental fillings, dominoes, clockwork escapements, forensic entomology, multi-stage rocketry, pontoon bridges, toilet paper, electronic cigarettes, non-invasive prenatal diagnostic testing for Down's Syndrome, synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin, and gunpowder what have the Chinese ever done for us?

Re:Meanwhile, back in America

[Tablizer]

Spirit got stuck in a reboot loop on January 21, 2004, and was down until February 6th.....problem with the flash filesystem

From that came one of the greatest Biblical space jokes ever: "The Spirit is willing but the flash it weak".

Re:Meanwhile, back in America

[Maritz]

Spirit got stuck in a reboot loop on January 21, 2004, and was down until February 6th.....problem with the flash filesystem

From that came one of the greatest Biblical space jokes ever: "The Spirit is willing but the flash it weak".

Must be really something to fight its way to the upper echelons of great bible space jokes.

Re:Meanwhile, back in America

[Joce640k]

Damn those Pesky Facts!