Starship Asterisk*

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090629.html


Bummer man, they forgot to turn on the headlights . Pass the ice cold one. an image is worth a thousand words, really !

Uh oh, how do we know it crashed? What a clever way to gain a spy satellite.

I used to doubt if there was something wrong with my computer, so I couldn't see the flash.
Now I know the truth. But I believed that I must forgive them... And thanks for their hard working... (the voice lower and lower)

have a look

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php ... &year=2009

If that were a CANADIAN spacecraft it NEVER would have crashed. Our technolgy is simply superior. Applications for membership to Local Ottawa Cosmos Ottawa now being accepted.

Loco wrote:If that were a CANADIAN spacecraft it NEVER would have crashed. Our technolgy is simply superior. Applications for membership to Local Ottawa Cosmos Ottawa now being accepted.

AFIAK all lunar orbiting satellites are eventually crashed into the surface. The uneven distribution of dense material in the lunar body creates an uneven distribution of gravities effect on orbiting bodies. Maintaining a stable orbit requires constant inconsistant boosting to avoid crashing. So, even if a Canadian spacecraft were orbiting the moon, it too would require either a return to earth or a crashing end on the moon.

so, if you crash land on the moon and walk away, that is a pretty good landing and if you crash on the moon and can use the spacecraft again, that is a better landing.

BMAONE23 wrote:

Loco wrote:If that were a CANADIAN spacecraft it NEVER would have crashed. Our technolgy is simply superior. Applications for membership to Local Ottawa Cosmos Ottawa now being accepted.

AFIAK all lunar orbiting satellites are eventually crashed into the surface. The uneven distribution of dense material in the lunar body creates an uneven distribution of gravities effect on orbiting bodies. Maintaining a stable orbit requires constant inconsistant boosting to avoid crashing. So, even if a Canadian spacecraft were orbiting the moon, it too would require either a return to earth or a crashing end on the moon.

Excuses Excuses Excuses.

apodman wrote:http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/Scfam-canadian.html

Merci to Apodman who proves as was I saying, no Canadian spacecraft have ever crashed into the moon. Forgive to my poor Hinglitch as was I born in a log dugout in Nordern Kebec wid honely de Exskimose to learn me da Hinglitch.

Loco wrote:

apodman wrote:http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/Scfam-canadian.html

Merci to Apodman who proves as was I saying, no Canadian spacecraft have ever crashed into the moon. Forgive to my poor Hinglitch as was I born in a log dugout in Nordern Kebec wid honely de Exskimose to learn me da Hinglitch.

Yeah, It is hard to crash one there if you've never sent one there.
AFIAK only about 5 or 6 of 194 nations have had successful lunar missions and onlt Russia and the US have had successful landing and return missions.

BMAONE23 wrote:

Loco wrote:

apodman wrote:http://claudelafleur.qc.ca/Scfam-canadian.html

Merci to Apodman who proves as was I saying, no Canadian spacecraft have ever crashed into the moon. Forgive to my poor Hinglitch as was I born in a log dugout in Nordern Kebec wid honely de Exskimose to learn me da Hinglitch.

Yeah, It is hard to crash one there if you've never sent one there.
AFIAK only about 5 or 6 of 194 nations have had successful lunar missions and onlt Russia and the US have had successful landing and return missions.

LOCO has not yet announced our successes, and we are not officially Canadian, as we accept no taxpayer money.

Sorry, could not find old thread, if you can, post link or merge

Any way, the video in this APOD is dead

The video was removed; The question is why?

Is this the post? http://asterisk.apod.com/vie ... 33&start=0

yes it is youtube is hard on copyright issues, i.e. material in breach of license can hang there for months/years, but if they spot it, it gets removed really quickly. some rightholders explicitly allow their stuff to be in there, e.g. I have a clip from Dead Snow and it says smth like "we know what you did; so far we don't care, but whenever the company orders us to take it down, we will".

I think there were some other clips of the crashing into the moon; but don't remember where I saw them. Maybe one could be pasted here?

Thanks! I didn't know that the video had been taken down. I have now edited that APOD to put in the new video link.