by thegrim33
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- It's pretty depressing that on a corner of the internet that's supposed to be a gathering of tech/geeks/nerds/stem people, discussing topics that "good hackers would find interesting", it's seemingly impossible to have a single thread about something like this that isn't almost entirely negative or political bickering.
by nasretdinov
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- I like how most people's reactions at this point are "yeah, whatever", as if it's every day that humans observe the far side of the moon with a naked eye through a window :). We do know what it looks like and we have photos from the surface, yes, but seeing the reaction from real people who're actually there does hit different, at least for me
- A fun way to track the mission is via NASA's Eyes on the Solar System visualizer:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_artemis_2
- I just need to say it's an extremely huge bummer how much cynicism and negativity there is about this mission. Is it perfect? No, of course not. Neither was Apollo.
We are all painfully aware of the things that make it imperfect.
It's still joyous and exciting.
Try to let it be.
- Am I losing it? They can’t be seeing the far side of the moon right now, because they haven’t adjusted course to go round the far side of the moon yet…
So does this suggest the BBC is wrong and it’s the side of the moon we’re used to seeing, but just it’s “dark”?
But then the astronauts are saying it’s weird seeing the moon in a whole new light (excuse the paraphrasing pun).
I don’t understand.
- It makes me tear up seeing the absolute 'best of us' as humanity striving and exploring in the midst of so much wretched evil and awfulness.
by majkinetor
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- FYI: https://issinfo.net/artemis
- Latest published image of the moon: https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/amf-art002e009006/
Photo and video gallery: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/journey-to-the-moon/
- It's interesting to me how cautious NASA is being with Artemis II. I wrote about the risk / mortality calculation behind this, but everything from the trajectory, the decision not to do an orbital insertion, the checkout in high-Earth orbit is very cautious.
I wish this mission took greater risks. Or, just at least go as far as Apollo 8, but stay for a bit longer, and try out new things. It would be fun to take a finicky low mass radio telescope experiment to the far side of the moon.
by cmrdporcupine
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- Just some humans doing proper awesome human stuff and being good people advancing international brotherhood and scientific advancement.
Love seeing our Ontario native Jeremy Hansen on the microphone, and those two flags properly positioned beside each other.
I'm not a Christian today, but was raised that way. This is the hopeful message I want to see on this day, and the true meaning of the symbol. Hope for all humankind. Working together.
by cybermango
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- They have live tracker you can follow
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
by notorandit
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- Far side != Dark side
by starkeeper
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- Why don't they have any decent external cameras absolutely goofy (or maybe they do and I am goofy?) also, framing!
- Anybody know if the O2O laser uplink / downlink is working? From what I understand its sort of a test and not guaranteed (depends also on weather near the ground stations).
by herodotus
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- I am curious. If it is on the far side, where does the light come from for the photos? Other stars?
- After watching that video, all I can think is - Please come back safe.
- I am really glad that NASA is investing in this. Hope this dream is not about exploration of travel as a service but much bigger & beyond.
- so cool. This whole mission makes me feel like a kid again.
by john_rambo
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- how are they broadcasting in what seems like near real-time? i don't have a whole lot of understanding on the topic, but if they're seeing the dark side of the moon then i assume they don't have line of sight to Earth. it makes me feel pretty rotten about some SQL queries i have knocking about.
by throwatdem12311
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- edit: knee jerk reaction was wrong
Still think what he said is worth hearing.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWvRjeEgecb/?igsh=MXZoYjZobDM...
by cucumber3732842
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- So they let them just wear hoodies in space now? Or are these fancypants space hoodies that cost a quarter mil and weigh a couple grams less? Or does that level of weight reduction not matter because the rocket is nowhere near maxed out?
- Rather than the far side, what about the Dark Side of the Moon?
by nodesocket
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- It’s sort of curious that BBC always seemed to get linked to the Artemis news on HN instead of the official NASA website or US news agencies.
- Beautiful.
- I'm going to be VERY disappointed if there's no Pink Floyd music or commentary from the Artemis mission. Particularly now. Life's short, and one can't be serious all the time...
Wallis and Gromit would be a partial substitute, but the boomers are still around.
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by heyitsmedotjayb
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- Are they going to land, to get out, take a look around? No. We have moon rocks at home.
by d-e-r-e-k
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- There’s too many problems here on earth for me to get excited about a trip to the moon
by islandbytes
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- Incredible achievement but I'll be honest — if you showed me this photo without context I would have no idea it was the far side. Just looks like the Moon. Also didn't realize we could capture an image like this in what I assumed was total darkness.
- On one of Apollo missions they've read from Bible, Book of Genesis [1]. I wish they did something like that here - and I'm not even a Christian, let alone religious. They did relay some beautiful message [2] though.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4tDZye57D4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELslc6O4UVk
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