Chinese Moon Rover Says an Early Goodnight 284
hackingbear writes "The Chinese moon rover, Jade Rabbit, encountered an abnormality in its control mechanism before its planned sleep during the 14-day-long lunar night. In the form of a diary, the Jade Rabbit said, "The shi-fu ('kung-fu masters,' meaning the scientists and engineers) are working around the clock trying to fix the problem and their eyes look like a rabbit's (red due to fatigue), but I may not be able to survive over this lunar night." (translated, original in Chinese.) The rover landed on the moon on Dec 14 and was designed to operate for three months."
Made in China (Score:4, Funny)
They just don't make rovers like they use to
Re:Enought with the nationalist crap (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe we should just use "hear here", just to cover all of our bases. That's what I do, anyway.
3 month warranty! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Enought with the nationalist crap (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe we should just use "hear here", just to cover all of our bases.
Their, there, now.
Re:3 month warranty! (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Figures (Score:4, Funny)
I'm curious what made in USA piece of electronics you're using to write that comment ...
How about a Lenovo on its 3rd motherboard?
Re:Brief translation from Chinese (Score:5, Funny)
I guess cheap knock offs don't work well on the moon either.
Re:Made in China (Score:0, Funny)
Made in China, means that it will fail prematurely, if not, it will explode, poison or kill someone in the process.
Re:Meanwhile, back in America (Score:0, Funny)
XKCD cultists always make me sad.
Re:Only one page of comments (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, but other than movable type printing, a calendar that was as accurate as the Gregorian but developed hundreds of years earlier, percussive cap drilling that was capable of the deepest wells in the early 19th century, paper currency, watertight compartments partitioning ships, dental fillings, dominoes, clockwork escapements, forensic entomology, multi-stage rocketry, pontoon bridges, toilet paper, electronic cigarettes, non-invasive prenatal diagnostic testing for Down's Syndrome, synthesis of crystalline bovine insulin, and gunpowder what have the Chinese ever done for us?
Re:Meanwhile, back in America (Score:5, Funny)
From that came one of the greatest Biblical space jokes ever: "The Spirit is willing but the flash it weak".
Re:Meanwhile, back in America (Score:5, Funny)
From that came one of the greatest Biblical space jokes ever: "The Spirit is willing but the flash it weak".
Must be really something to fight its way to the upper echelons of great bible space jokes.
Re:Meanwhile, back in America (Score:5, Funny)
Damn those Pesky Facts!