Updates China's Chang’e-4 Lunar Landing Mission

[Urwumpe]

They now have "planetary protection" guidelines to prevent "contamination".
Scientific mysticism at its best...

Of course, its easier to measure deadly fever, if you heat the thermometer first. :thumbup:

Or in other words: If you are interested in locating extraterrestrial amino acids or even microbiological life, bringing it their yourself is not helpful at all.

But if you are just going for propaganda, dropping the first corned beef sandwich on the moon is still an open achievement.

 

[Notebook]

I'm not sure any of those ingredients are in the Frey-Bentos product, though times move on.
As you probably know John Young got there first...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corned_beef#Cultural_associations

 

[jedidia]

Scientific mysticism at its best...

It's got nothing to do with mysticism. It's merely a precaution that if they find any traces of life somewhere some day, they can be sure it's not just something they left behind.

That's all we, need a fruit-fly/potatoe/cotton hybrid.

Great setup for a cheesy flick. Astronauts land on the moon to establish a base, get attacked and eaten one by one by a fruit-fly/potatoe/cotton hybrid monster that developed from an earlier biological experiment :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

Great setup for a cheesy flick. Astronauts land on the moon to establish a base, get attacked and eaten one by one by a fruit-fly/potatoe/cotton hybrid monster that developed from an earlier biological experiment :lol:

Just wait until the scene in which kebab-fruit-bat-man saves them...

 

[Notebook]

Remember, Time Flys Like An Arrow, Fruit-Flies Like A Banana.

Always suspicious of that...

N.

 

[Notebook]

Strange, the 1980 version with Kurt Russell is on UK telly tonight. He's just lost a chess match to a computer, and a strange dog has arrived, chased by a helicopter...

Scary

 

[jedidia]

What are you talking about?? :idk:

 

[Notebook]

Apologies, I left out the fact that the 1980's remake of "The Thing" was on UK tv last night.
Forgot that not all Orbinauts live here...

N.

 

[Donamy]

Apologies, I left out the fact that the 1980's remake of "The Thing" was on UK tv last night.
Forgot that not all Orbinauts live here...

N.

Yes, but some of us have been known to drink.

 

[Notebook]

The Chinese Chang'e-4 rover may have confirmed a longstanding idea about the origin of a vast crater on the Moon's far side.
The rover's landing site lies within a vast impact depression created by an asteroid strike billions of years ago.
Now, mission scientists have found evidence that impact was so powerful it punched through the Moon's crust and into the layer below called the mantle.
Chang'e-4 has identified what appear to be mantle rocks on the surface.
It's something the rover was sent to the far side to find out.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48285503