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Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu (space.com)
sharkbiter shares a report from Space.com: The suspense is over: Two tiny hopping robots have successfully landed on an asteroid called Ryugu -- and they've even sent back some wild postcards from their new home. The tiny rovers are part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return mission. Engineers with the agency deployed the robots early Friday (Sept. 21), but JAXA waited until today (Sept. 22) to confirm the operation was successful and both rovers made the landing safely.
In order to complete the deployment, the main spacecraft of the Hayabusa2 mission lowered itself carefully down toward the surface until it was just 180 feet (55 meters) up. After the rovers were on their way, the spacecraft raised itself back up to its typical altitude of about 12.5 miles above the asteroid's surface (20 kilometers). The agency still has two more deployments yet to accomplish before it can rest easy: Hayabusa2 is scheduled to deploy a larger rover called MASCOT in October and another tiny hopper next year. And of course, the main spacecraft has a host of other tasks to accomplish during its stay at Ryugu -- most notably, to collect a sample of the primitive world to bring home to Earth for laboratory analysis. JAXA tweeted on Saturday: "We are sorry we have kept you waiting! MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, 1a & 1b. Both rovers are confirmed to have landed on the surface of Ryugu. They are in good condition and have transmitted photos & data. We also confirmed they are moving on the surface."
In order to complete the deployment, the main spacecraft of the Hayabusa2 mission lowered itself carefully down toward the surface until it was just 180 feet (55 meters) up. After the rovers were on their way, the spacecraft raised itself back up to its typical altitude of about 12.5 miles above the asteroid's surface (20 kilometers). The agency still has two more deployments yet to accomplish before it can rest easy: Hayabusa2 is scheduled to deploy a larger rover called MASCOT in October and another tiny hopper next year. And of course, the main spacecraft has a host of other tasks to accomplish during its stay at Ryugu -- most notably, to collect a sample of the primitive world to bring home to Earth for laboratory analysis. JAXA tweeted on Saturday: "We are sorry we have kept you waiting! MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, 1a & 1b. Both rovers are confirmed to have landed on the surface of Ryugu. They are in good condition and have transmitted photos & data. We also confirmed they are moving on the surface."
when you don't waste all your disposable income policing the world and 'liberating' third world shitholes.
Imagine where we would be and what we could have done... interstellar by now.
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for martian tentacles.
Imagine the people we could have lifted out of poverty while creating a stronger nation, economy, and safer world. With the money we are spending on war shit we could have turned this planet into a garden of peace and prosperity a few times over.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Nevermind that the shirt is plastered in obscure imagery featuring blonde women...the style choice alone should have sparked an internet outrage. This guy is a dumbass.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
Your feelings about clothes matter.
Maybe life is just like that...
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Taylorâ(TM)s shirt â" custom-made for him by a female friend who was delighted he wore it......
How does one keep vehicles from floating off into space with such little gravity?
... women's feelings about a shirt designed by a woman.
"Involved in authoring 70 scientific papers — focusing, in the word of NASA’s website, “on energetic particle dynamics in near-Earth space and in the interaction of the Sun’s solar wind with the Earth’s magnetic field”
= not a dumb-ass.
With regard to his shirt: "He chose poorly" - and someone was offended, somewhere, somehow.
Given the first photo, the Minerva-II1A rover will now be know as the JJ Abrams rover.
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Just make sure the rover is not hijacked by a group of humanoid cockroaches
someone was offended
And that's what matters. Until we all decide to tell people who take offense that we don't care about their feelings any more than they care about ours.
Patrick McGooghan will eventually escape them.
It sounds like they will have material from an asteroid back some two years earlier than NASA!
Pretty exciting though that potentially we could have material from two different asteroids to compare. I've not looked into the NASA mission, hopefully they are also getting a ways down inside the asteroid... would be interesting to see a comparison of the two missions and what capabilities each had.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
FTFY.
Chris Plante was an author of the original trashy clickbait article.
Given the frequency in which "male feminists" are accused of rape and other forms of sexual assault, I would not be surprised before he is is the target of a "pound me too".
Imagine the people we could have lifted out of poverty while creating a stronger nation, economy, and safer world. With the money we are spending on war shit we could have turned this planet into a garden of peace and prosperity a few times over.
I'd like to see your math on that.
Here's mine.
The USA spent about $600 billion for the military in 2017.
We could use that money to feed people in Africa instead buying bombs and guns.
$600 billion would buy about $1.25 of food a day for every person in Africa. I'm not seeing prosperity there.
The Japanese space agency's budget ... is far less than that of NASA, Roscosmos and the ESA. This mission is a remarkably ambitious example of doing more with less.
Considering what their relatively puny budget, Japan's space program is arguably the most advanced in the world.
They tried all sorts of new stuffs, such as this one:
A low cost version of the rocket which can be quickly assembled, with off-the-shelf parts commonly used by many other electronic industries
While the above rocket ended as a failure, it does illustrate the Japan's willingness to 'think outside of the box' - which, unfortunately, has been critically lacking in NASA and other space agencies, from Russia to India to Europe to China.
Considering most of the regions touched by famine have opulation wit $10/month of income, that's already 4x what they earn.
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Well, that "dumbass" managed to land a probe on a comet. Meanwhile all these "smart" outraged women...? What did they give the humanity?
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And if you buy food for people in africa or other starving places, you do two things...
1, make them dependent on your handouts
2, cause them to have more kids - thus requiring larger handouts in future
African countries like Zimbabwe used to have no trouble feeding themselves, in fact they used to export a lot of food.
Proper education is needed, not handouts of food, and they need to actually want the education and learn from it.
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Where do I find the episode of Top Gear/Grand Tour with these rovers doing some stupid shit? Please link.
Imagine where we would be and what we could have done... interstellar by now.
Like the voyager probes? Well, kind of anyway.
Wanna buy a shirt?
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I'd like to see your math on that.
Here's mine. The USA spent about $600 billion for the military in 2017. We could use that money to feed people in Africa instead buying bombs and guns. $600 billion would buy about $1.25 of food a day for every person in Africa. I'm not seeing prosperity there.
Why Africa? Start with your own poor before sorting out other entire continents.
Wanna buy a shirt?
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I read that US school teachers are buying supplies with their own money. That's just crazy.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
..by claiming the scientists and engineers were misogynists?
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Because they'd blow stupid amounts of money decorating their rooms with useless crap if given the school district's credit card.
Here's what the first result on Google for "school supply list" shows being expected for students to contribute to their classrooms, for a classroom of ~25 kids, that's a huge pile of stuff: https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1031679/9b0dd3bc-29ed-11e7-b792-22000bd8490f/1635210/5faaee6a-a324-11e7-ba85-0a4b9d9ebaf8/file/Tunbridge%20PreK%201st%20Resource%20Embry%20Supply%20List%202017-18.pdf
A shirt that was designed by a woman.
Insightful mod?
Not Offtopic?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
To be more exact you need both. Provide food for the person not to starve immediately, and when the person is no longer at risk of starvation then you go to the part of educating him.
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You missed the real story here. The detail, which we know from direct empirical evidence, is what kind of shirt was the spokesman wearing when heade the announcement?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It would be interesting to see such technology used to explore Phobos and get some nice close up pics of that interestingly shaped rock.
You must gather your party before venturing forth.
I'd like to see your math on that.
Here's mine.
The USA spent about $600 billion for the military in 2017.
We could use that money to feed people in Africa instead buying bombs and guns.
$600 billion would buy about $1.25 of food a day for every person in Africa. I'm not seeing prosperity there.
Why Africa? Start with your own poor before sorting out other entire continents.
And what poor in the USA is that?
There are endless support programs for the poor in the USA
The USA spent 2.3 trillion dollars on support programs last year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States
Your hypothesis breaks down when you look at the fact we're providing loads of this type of handout here and hardly anyone is having children.
So your hypothesis is that the fatter you are the more you reproduce?
Try to remember that the assertion I'm objecting to is this:
"With the money we are spending on war shit we could have turned this planet into a garden of peace and prosperity a few times over."
He did not assert that we could help feed some people, his claim was a wild and unworkable statement.
The USA's military budget just is not enough to make a difference. What would work better is if the USA took half of the money it spends now on its own so-called poor ($25,000 a year for four) and spent that on world peace.
FYI, that would be half of 2.3 trillion dollars spent on social programs last year, or double the military budget. Make our people a little more poor and make the rest of them a lot less poor.
It's amazing how you've forgotten what a pain in the ass you were as a child unless your energies were channeled into creative, constructive projects. After reviewing the list, and especially noting that the list is broken up by grade level (you probably didn't note that and thought the entire list was for one student), I have concluded that it is quite limited for a 180 day school year.
Also your notion that a teacher would be handed a credit card carte blanche is ridiculous. They'd be given a budget maximum and because they are adults, not the children you think they are, they would wisely choose the materials they need for the school year. In fact, given how shitty teacher pay is, they're probably far better at budgeting than you are. Your beef with the education system is probably more about your own disinterest in receiving an education. Stop blaming other people.
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Not sure about the math there trying to tax the weapons exporters, but the rest of your comment is spot-on!
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--- Jerry Garcia
Sure, at the same time of ridding the region of corrupt authorities with guns. Easy.
Education only works for people with cocks, but not pussies? Well, that's certainly cleared up a couple of centuries of error.
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A bit of (Brazilian) Portuguese for you: In Portuguese a "pessoa" (person) can be either "he" or "her," for purposes of verbal agreement is used more "her" (person is a "feminine" word in portuguese). You american guys in English apparently use "it" in this case, but in Portuguese "it" is "coisa" (thing), and I do not think it's right to call a person a "thing". As the literal translation seems to use "it" then I preferred to use "her" as it is used in Brazilian Portuguese so I can make it clear that I am talking about a person and not a thing.
Religion: The greatest weapon of mass destruction of all time
Correction: I mean "him", not "her" on the last part. I should have used "her" (for "person"), but since I don't think Americans would understand the use of Portuguese verbal agreement then I decided to use a middle ground and use "him" since the Google literal translation insists on switching "him" to "it".
Religion: The greatest weapon of mass destruction of all time
Don't worry about it, most of us understood what you meant.
Using "them" instead of "him" may have been more gender neutral.
news flash, men don't have a monopoly on having poor taste.
Once they're no longer at risk of starvation, the motivation to do anything goes away...
You give freebies and people will become lazy, not bother to learn anything and just wait for more freebies.
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Please don't insult people by assuming they are American.
Gendered versus non-gendered languages are definitely confusing. Almost as confusing as two-gender versus three-gender languages. Or, for that matter, languages with versus without articles.
"It" or "one" is perfectly acceptable English, even if it may (or may not) be unacceptable in American. I don't know, because I don't speak American.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Its as if humanity is being held back from going interstellar... I cant imagine any human wanting this tech being held back.
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More people to kill, More spent on the military... win-win for everybody. :)
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