Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit 152
Matt_dk writes "Today, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface. This followed a series of three orbit reduction manoeuvres conducted during the past three days by repeatedly firing the spacecraft's 440 Newton Liquid Engine.
The next major event of Chandrayaan-1 mission planned in the coming days is the release of Moon Impact Probe (MIP) from the spacecraft and its eventual hitting of the moon's surface."
Great. (Score:5, Funny)
And I JUST GOT CABLE!
Global cooperation (Score:5, Funny)
So when America returns to the moon, they can look forward to a variety of tasty lunar takeout joints already established by the Indians and Chinese. The resulting outbreaks of explosive diarrhea can be put to good use in terraforming the moon.
new plot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great. (Score:5, Funny)
apollo lander module? (Score:4, Funny)
Just what we needed in this financial crisis! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just what we needed in this financial crisis! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Suck it, conspiritards... (Score:2, Funny)
We conspiritards aren't stoopid, we know such pictures can be easily faked.
Now if you want to see some REAL evidence, I have some alien autopsy pics that will BLOW YOUR MIND!
That's just the Martians (Score:3, Funny)
They went to an observatory and had the person show that pointing the laser away from the moon produced no return signal whereas when they pointed the laser at a specific spot on the moon, they did get a signal.
Pfff. That's just the Martians they paid to sit on the moon and respond to lasers.
Re:apollo lander module? (Score:3, Funny)
Bouncing a beam off of the lunar laser ranger demonstrates only that we (or more likely the underlings working for the alien overlords known as the Illuminati) planted the device on the moon. It does not prove that it was placed there during the supposed "Apollo" mission nor does it prove that man has ever escaped Earth's orbit or that the moon is in fact real rather than a sophisticated projection on the outside of our fishbowl. There's actually a documentary [wikipedia.org] where OJ Simpson demonstrates how a similar hoax could be pulled off for a manned Mars landing.
(May the gods help us if anyone interprets the above as anything other than a goofy attempt at humor.)
Seriously, though, good for the Indians. Considering the $$ that the US has shot into space (development, production, etc), and the continued global interest in space exploration, this could be a very valuable market for them.
Lucky the Americans didn't set up base permanently (Score:3, Funny)
Mind you it's lucky the Americans haven't set up base permanently, otherwise none of the astronauts who visited would be able to get back into their spaceships and come back. They'd all be too obese to fit through the hatches of their lunar modules from eating the high quality cuisine the USA has given the world, supersized burgers and fries washed down with gallon buckets of coca-cola... ;-)
Re:Global cooperation (Score:2, Funny)
...and right after America buys up all these diarrhea-inducing restaurants and places NDA's on their previous owners, just so they can claim that they "invented" it first and sue anyone who comes down with diarrhea afterwards?
Sounds about right.
"Its eventual hitting of the moon's surface"? (Score:3, Funny)
Are you looking for the phrase "impact on"? Maybe "collision with"? Or even "hit on"? There are a plethora of choices... [reference.com]
Re:India's first astronaut (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe he's coming back... from the future!
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