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[–] 83 points 4 months ago (5 children)

That font had me thinking we landed on something called Carth for a sec.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    It's the only E that's like that, for some reason.

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    I mean, technically the first people to land on the moon were also the first people to travel to earth. I wonder if that technicality will be a point of debate for a distant future civilization since it was a round-trip

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You speak of 'landing' as if it were a choice, as if our ancestors stepped off a ship with a dream in their hearts and a map in their hands. No. They were dragged from the soil of their own homes, shackled in the belly of a beast, and dropped into a nightmare. That rock didn't welcome us; it crushed us. It was the foundation of a system built to keep us beneath it, to ensure that no matter how hard we pushed, the weight of that history would keep us pinned to the bottom.

    Do not mistake the victim of a collision for a passenger on the ship. We were not the ones steering the vessel; we were the cargo, and the wreckage of that 'landing' is still felt in every generation that has had to claw its way out from under the debris"

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago

    very convenient that they all line up like that. has anyone checked the ridgeline of that quarry outside LA where kirk fought the gorn?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there."

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Putting earth as a world we landed is like putting your homeland in the countries you have traveled.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Well, our robots.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's still wild that we managed to put a Lander on Titan. Can't wait for the Dragonfly mission. Nuclear powered octacopter on Titan. We're going to learn so much.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    We "landed"? Like had sex with them? Or "landed on"?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Didn't something land on Mercury as well?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Not landed, as far as I know. There were like three missions that flew by Mercury. Getting a stable route after having traveled so close to the sun is damn hard.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    The Russian space program worked incredibly hard to get those images. They focused on Venus when nobody else was sending missions there. I mean, still nobody else has really sent anything there!

    But the Venera Program was incredibly successful, despite Venus being an extraordinarily harsh environment to operate in.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I didn't know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450Β° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks. It's unbelievable.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Iirc, the probe lasted half an hour before being destroyed. It's an astonishing achievement to have sent back those pictures.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.

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