| ▲ | Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found(nytimes.com) |
| 32 points by Brajeshwar 5 days ago | 12 comments |
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| How come there's not more sattelites around the moon taking high resolution, high zoom photos to for example find this object? We can see beachball-sized objects on consumer-available photos (e.g. google maps/earth), and that's from over 100 km up through an atmosphere. I guess the answer is "nobody paid for it" but still. There's google maps for the moon (https://www.google.com/maps/space/moon) but I'm not sure what resolution that is. |
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| ▲ | eps 3 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > that's from over 100 km up through an atmosphere Could be from atmospheric fly-overs. |
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| ▲ | fireflymetavrse an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The word "lost" is a little bit confusing in this context. It successfully landed and operated several days, but it's location was only approximated. We've seen landers in recent years that crashed unintentionally in precise known locations. Does this mean that they were not lost? |
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| ▲ | bloak an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, the word "lost" is ambiguous, but I didn't even notice the ambiguity until you pointed it out. I think the presence of the word "found" in the same sentence lead me to assume the "unknown location" sense rather than the "destroyed" sense. | |
| ▲ | clort an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes. Generally, if you know where it is, it is not lost. If you don't then it is. But, it also depends if you want to know where it is. If you don't know where something is and don't want to, its not lost its discarded. | | |
| ▲ | ultratalk an hour ago | parent [-] | | Another usage of the word "lost" is to indicate when the spacecraft has become dysfunctional. Although, that one is the verb form, not the adjective. |
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| ▲ | newsclues an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Lost can be not knowing where something is or to no longer have it. | | |
| ▲ | ggm an hour ago | parent [-] | | "Lost at sea" and "lost with all hands" exemplifying a ship sinking, precision to place is neither denied nor supplied. It's a net loss to the fleet, the shareholders and the insurer. And of course wives and children. |
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| ▲ | Animats an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Someday, someone, or some robot, will find it and ship it back, for museum display. |
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| ▲ | CobrastanJorji 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Assuming we have reached a point in time where it makes sense to do that, it may be that it makes more sense to put it in a museum on the moon. | | |
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| ▲ | moebrowne 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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