• vrek@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    They aren’t “going to the moon” they are going around the moon. It’s like saying “I’m going to the store” and just driving past the parking lot and turning around to go home.

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        5 months ago

        They’re getting within 6500km of the surface, after travelling 385.000km. So they’re going 98.3% of the way to the moon.

        So that’s like going from Beijing to the grand canyon, and staying in the western suburbs of Las Vegas.

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        5 months ago

        I drove over the Mississippi river, at 9pm. It was dark and didn’t see anything. I’ve never experienced the Mississippi River just like this is not an experience of flying to the moon. They got close but still working on actually getting there.

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      5 months ago

      Don’t know why you are getting down voted. This is a massive amount of money for no obvious purpose.

      No, there will not be a moon colony one day, just fucking no.