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Russian unmanned craft crashes into moon

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  1. tampagtr

    tampagtr VIP Member

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    I feel petty, but this made me happy

    Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon after spinning into an uncontrolled orbit, officials say.

    The unmanned craft was due to make a soft landing on the moon's south pole, but failed after encountering issues as it moved into its pre-landing orbit.

    The spacecraft was scheduled to land on Monday as part of a mission to explore a part of the moon which scientists think could hold frozen water and precious elements.




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  2. vaxcardinal

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    I guess we must be providing Ukraine with space lasers
     
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  3. danmanne65

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    I thought only Jews had space Lasers?
    And where I was reading about this people were joking that the Russians had repurposed an old washing machine motherboard to control this lander. It apparently got stuck on spin cycle.
     
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  4. cocodrilo

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    Putin will retaliate by targeting a couple more Ukrainian apartment buildings, or maybe another kindergarten or theater. (And Trump will again call him a genius.)
     
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  5. uftaipan

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    Fake news. The crash was on purpose as a deliberate deception operation to make us think it was a spacecraft when actually it was a well-rehearsed testing of a weapon. The whole space mission was, like, designed to intimidate us, and speaking for self, I’m intimidated.
     
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  6. GatorJMDZ

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    Wouldn't want to be around Putin today (or ever, but especially today.)
     
  7. cocodrilo

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    I pity the guy(s) at Russia's Houston who screwed up. (Kim Jong Un would have them tied to the muzzles of cannons. Ready, aim, fire!
     
  8. sierragator

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    The balcony failed
     
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  10. tampagtr

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    Well done
     
  11. tampagtr

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    Early reports are that they purchased the discount Iranian Loitering Lunar Lander instead of developing the technology themselves, without realizing the suicidal self-destructive tendencies of the vehicle.

    Alternatively, it was supposed to land in an empty space but then thought it spotted an apartment building with a playground on the lunar surface and internal latent programming took over
     
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  12. chemgator

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    Russians were practicing for committing war crimes in outer space. They feel limited by the number of war crimes available in Ukraine, and frankly, running torture centers is irritating, with all the moaning and what not.
     
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  13. AndyGator

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    It was a planned event. Victory for Russia. :rolleyes:
     
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  14. obgator

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    Someone’s going to fall off their balcony, accidentally of course.
     
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  15. sierragator

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    Yep, we will see a report of someone in the Russian Space agency having a nasty encounter with a balcony in the near future.
     
  16. StrangeGator

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    Chicago
    Zelensky is Jewish.
     
  17. chemgator

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    As is Captain Kirk (William Shatner).
     
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    Jax
    Our secret moon base wouldn’t allow such a landing. :ninja3:
     
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  19. mrhansduck

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    Glad it was unmanned. Should we blame their lack of wokeness?
     
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