uphillbothways @ uphillbothways @kbin.social

ghost riding the apocalypse cuz there’s no way off this ride

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“I have very little sympathy for the companies that are complaining about the burdens of this kind of disclosure. These are orders of magnitude lower than the burdens that climate change itself is imposing.”
Michael Gerrard, the founder of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

a-fucking-men

Look, she has needs, okay. She's a nice lady!

There's also potential to forfeit if he violates the release conditions or commits other crimes.

Less guns, more roses, longer tea times.

And SpaceX as a whole. It's entirely government funded anyway. Should have kept that money in NASA where it belonged. Fortunately, there's an easy way to put it all right back.

(Also, archive link of top article here: https://archive.is/H6rzo )

Roofers, landscapers, construction workers, garbage collectors, truck drivers and farmers are all in much more dangerous and essential occupations than those choosing to be police officers. Police officers just complain the loudest.

Police officers cause much more death in the population than they are subjected to "in the line of duty". They are net aggressors.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-police-officers-die-in-the-line-of-duty/

When they rigged the system against you after squeezing every last bit of resources for themselves, then acted like you were just irresponsible and don't get why you're horribly depressed being left with a hopeless wad of shit behind every corner and under every stone

Soo...... bout tree fiddy

Anything that makes the rich poorer makes us richer. Crash and burn, baby!

Hopefully they can land without it, provided they can recover from this current mishap. Any success in space is good for science.

Supposedly they have another landing instrument, though I suspect the camera was somewhat important for selecting a landing site. The Doppler speed and range meter is discussed briefly here:

According to the original plan, Luna 25 was supposed to be launched in 2014. However, various reasons provoked delays one after another. The last big postponement (from 2021 to 2023) was caused by the malfunction detected in the Doppler speed and range meter (DISD-LR) during the tests. Being an important part of the soft landing system, this device couldn’t be ignored, and its insufficient accuracy may cost a mission. The repeated tests of DISD-LR and subsequent changes of the lander’s software caused a delay for almost two years.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/luna-25-mission-launch/

Here's a couple articles and quotes (guess they were from only a week ago):

Simply reaching the moon without incident will be considered a success.
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Sanctions since 2014 and 2022 have hobbled the Russian space programme, cutting it off from western technology and funding. The launch in 2019 was delayed because a landing radar that Roscosmos planned to import from the west was no longer available after 2014, Egorov said. After attempting to manufacture the radar domestically, Roscosmos determined that it was unnecessary for the mission.

Tougher sanctions since 2022 will likely increase shortages for years to come, meaning that even if Russia is successful this time, it may not be able to repeat that mission or launch further probes without manufacturing its own alternatives.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/10/russia-lunar-landing-mission-luna-25-moon

“Study of the moon is not the goal,” Egorov said. “The goal is political competition between two superpowers – China and the USA – and a number of other countries which also want to claim the title of space superpower.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/10/russia-to-launch-its-first-mission-to-the-moon-in-nearly-50-years

A long road to the launch pad
It took longer than expected for Luna-25 to get off the ground; its liftoff was delayed for nearly two years.

One major countdown-delaying issue was sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022. The European Space Agency (ESA) had been set to provide the Pilot-D navigation camera, built specifically to help Luna-25 make a precision landing on the moon. Due to the invasion, however, ESA canceled the camera cooperation, along with a number of other collaborative space projects.

But getting Luna-25 on its way to the moon remained a priority, one highlighted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. In an April 2022 visit to the Vostochny Cosmodrome, he said the sanctions placed on Russia by the U.S., the European Union and others would not deter the nation from carrying out space exploration.

"Despite all the difficulties and attempts to interfere from the outside, we're definitely going to implement all our plans with consistency and persistence," Putin said.

https://www.space.com/russia-luna-25-moon-mission-launch-success

The wikipedia page on the Luna-25 mission has sources referenced on the removed parts under the "science payload" section here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna25

There were some articles discussing it and Russia's thinking prior to launch in going ahead without them. They said they'd count just getting to the moon as a success even if the landing failed, but you kind of had to read between the lines a little bit. Not having a landing camera was a big give away. They'd essentially decided they weren't going to get that back due to the whole situation they put themselves in.

I'd have to try a bit more to find one of those articles from a few weeks ago. They're buried under more current references to the mission at this point.

FreeCAD isn't the worst and has the ability to output several file formats. But it's definitely wonky and probably not up to the task if that's like your actual job or whatever. I don't know your scenario, but you might check it out if you're still using CAD. It is free.

But yeah, in general, required software is the big hiccup.

So the blast doesn't spill out and toast them, too.

It was never going to make the landing. The landing camera (ESA's PILOT-D) was pulled (along w Sweden's LINA-XSAN science mission) due to Russia's war on Ukraine. This satellite was always going to be DOA.

They just launched it for political points, so it's likely that blaming failure on a micro-meteorite en route is a ploy to save face.

Good to hear. Tbf I haven't followed it in a long time. My club days are long behind me. Knees are all creaky and I don't drink like I used to.

As sea temperature approaches body temperature...

Nice story telling! Sounds like a fun game. Good luck with that Arch Devil. Sounds like they've got a serious boner for your warlock.

I'm saying that if he wants to be a leader he needs to do the work to lead. There was a series of thoughts in the comment above. You're only replying to part of the comment, but the rest of the comment was important too.

Hey dickhole, educate your damn self. What the fuck are you president of anything for if you can't even lead yourself to a fresh thought?

If you can't do it, which you seem to be admitting here, and you need a woman to lead you to the correct way of thinking, step down and let a woman do the leading from the office of FIFA President. Maybe if you ask nicely and show a willingness to learn, she'll hire you as a secretary or something, but only if you remember to smile.