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Normally, I'd say that it's a great shame that a piece of valuable scientific equipment was lost and that it's a massive loss to humanity as a whole as the international scientific community is usually able to co-operate regardless of boarders.
But this time, Russia said they won't be sharing any data gathered from this probe with the international community and would be keeping it all to themselves so suddenly I don't give a shit.
I agree but I'm also happy that Putin doesn't get a win by presenting this as "Russia is great and all because of me".
Sucks for the scientists / engineers.
I wonder how long until we start hearing about them βfallingβ out of windows.
They are likely going to be drafted...
maybe that already happened to some of them and that's why this happened
It's probably too early for this to be a reason for the crash, but Russian brain drain after their full-scale Ukrainian invasion is real.
Fuck the Russian government, but you still hate to see something like this happen.
No, I actually don't. This was never going to be scientifically meaningful. It was nothing but a vanity project that went exactly how it deserved to.
It was set to explore a part of the Moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements
Is this false?
Is the russia gov reviving the 'Luna' mission name and mission type after decades coincidence when russia is heavily sanctioned by the west and in need of showing it is a industrial and scientific powerhouse? At a time it is according to its own gov 'at war with NATO', just like during the cold war?
Doing exploration & science when you go is a given, but it is disingenuous saying that Russia started this mission out of pure scientific interest. The same can of course be said of US moon or Mars programs.
The difference however is this one failed its obvious primary objective: showing that Russia = strong, and that at a time that Russia is desperate for a succes, not another example that it is a shithole.
I doubt it since India has a mission right now to do the same thing.
It's not false, but from Russia it's worthless. China and India have actually competent missions to the same region planned, and the US's Artemis 3 crewed mission is also planning to land in that region by 2026. This was absolutely an incompetent rush job attempt to beat everybody else to the punch in the name of "Russian Superiority".
Based on what I know about Russia they would probably claim moon as part of Russia and then bomb the 1969 moon landing site with cluster munitions. Fuck em
Boy, that Russian missile REALLY missed the pre-school in Kiev they were aiming for.
Well, Russia certainly lived up to its reputation.
Maybe we can give the moon lander the benefit of the doubt and assume it spotted a rock that looked like a children's hospital, prompting a change in priorities.
They rushed a project to compete with NASA's VIPER rover and just wanted to be first.
They were also trying to be the Indian team, who are taking a longer time using gravitational whip to send their mission to the Moonβs pole.
They will say Nato/US/Ukraine hacked into the spacecraft and made it crash. You heard it here first.
Essentially my narcissistic ex: everything bad that has ever happened to her is someone elseβs fault.
so you're saying Steven Segal likes Russia because it's sort of a home for Narcissism.. yeah, i guess i can see that..
LMAOOOOOO
Seems like russian science is as shit as russian military
Well then they just send 1000 probes and I'm sure one will work eventually
Huh. I don't see any hexbears or Lemmygrads on this thread. Interesting. Can't complain.
God it is validating to see you say that. I'm new to the platform, reddit refugee, and am bombarded by what appears to be hard core communists. It's exhausting.
They are not communists, they are russian apologists.
They're tankies.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being a communist.
Putin-fans and Russian bots can go eat a dick, though.
There's nothing communist about today's Russia.
Also the fact that they all act like /r/the_donald trolls
Nothing makes me less inclined to hear out your opinion when you're acting like a middle schooler whose trying to look cool in front of his friends lol
Tankies used to care about communism. Now they're just anti-western. They will not question if Russia or China are actually communist because it doesn't matter. They don't care about worker protections or freedoms. They only care about "owning the west."
They call it a successful missile strike on the moon and they're back to winning again.
The Lunar War over minerals is going to be so fucking stupid and fun.
"Today, Russian engineers managed a perfect example of Lithobreaking on the moon, showing the superiority of Soviet cosmonautics." -- Russian News Outlets
No no no, the moon illegally and meanly crashed into innocent Russiaβs poor little defenseless space robot without any provocation!
What, invading Ukraine wasn't enough and now they need to pollute the moon with their piece of shit spacecraft too?
Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, etc, etc.
Slava Ukraini!
Must've been a Ukrainian ~~hospital~~ military base there.
Last attempt to pass on the knowledge before the Luna 24 people are gone - it landed 18 August 1976.
Sad, hope chandrayaan makes it.
I'm impressed they managed to hit it
