I mean, technically the first people to land on the moon were also the first people to travel to earth. I wonder if that technicality will be a point of debate for a distant future civilization since it was a round-trip
You speak of 'landing' as if it were a choice, as if our ancestors stepped off a ship with a dream in their hearts and a map in their hands. No. They were dragged from the soil of their own homes, shackled in the belly of a beast, and dropped into a nightmare. That rock didn't welcome us; it crushed us. It was the foundation of a system built to keep us beneath it, to ensure that no matter how hard we pushed, the weight of that history would keep us pinned to the bottom.
Do not mistake the victim of a collision for a passenger on the ship. We were not the ones steering the vessel; we were the cargo, and the wreckage of that 'landing' is still felt in every generation that has had to claw its way out from under the debris"
It's still wild that we managed to put a Lander on Titan. Can't wait for the Dragonfly mission. Nuclear powered octacopter on Titan. We're going to learn so much.
Not landed, as far as I know. There were like three missions that flew by Mercury. Getting a stable route after having traveled so close to the sun is damn hard.
The Russian space program worked incredibly hard to get those images. They focused on Venus when nobody else was sending missions there. I mean, still nobody else has really sent anything there!
But the Venera Program was incredibly successful, despite Venus being an extraordinarily harsh environment to operate in.
I didn't know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks.
It's unbelievable.
That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 73d
That font had me thinking we landed on something called Carth for a sec.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 73d
It's the only E that's like that, for some reason.
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d
And only when it’s the first letter? There’s two other E that are fine.
Mac@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 73d
Maybe it's caps vs not?
s@piefed.world · 13 pts · 73d
Yes, I found the font used
s@piefed.world · 1 pts · 73d
I was thinking Arrakis
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 73d
Earth kinda landed on us.
Pickleideas@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 73d
I mean, technically the first people to land on the moon were also the first people to travel to earth. I wonder if that technicality will be a point of debate for a distant future civilization since it was a round-trip
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d
I'd consider Juri Gagarin to be the first who landed on earth
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 7 pts · 73d
Erm actually the first person to jump was the first person to land
stephen@lazysoci.al · 9 pts · 73d
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 73d
No I mean your mom is as fat as the earth and the bitch landed on me.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d
Really depends on how the birth goes.
lime@feddit.nu · 19 pts · 73d
very convenient that they all line up like that. has anyone checked the ridgeline of that quarry outside LA where kirk fought the gorn?
nuko147@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 73d
Putting earth as a world we landed is like putting your homeland in the countries you have traveled.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d
Seems legit to me.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 73d
I've personally landed on Earth thousands of times.
mech@feddit.org · 8 pts · 73d
Venus is really the most impressive of them all.
Especially with how little we knew of it before.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 7 pts · 73d
"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there."
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 73d
monolith screeching intensifies
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 73d
The graphic misses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimorphos
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 73d
Impact is not landing.
Zolidus@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 73d
Um, sure it is. Just very fast & violently.
lefty7283@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d
Good ol’ lithobraking
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 73d
Now land on Jupiter!
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 73d
Needs clarification on "land"
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 73d
It's still wild that we managed to put a Lander on Titan. Can't wait for the Dragonfly mission. Nuclear powered octacopter on Titan. We're going to learn so much.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 73d
It's such an amazingly awesome mission, I love every part of it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
Well, our robots.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
EyIchFragDochNur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d
Of course, I mean good luck landing on a gas planet
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 73d
We "landed"? Like had sex with them? Or "landed on"?
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 73d
Didn't something land on Mercury as well?
Herr_S_aus_H@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 73d
Not landed, as far as I know. There were like three missions that flew by Mercury. Getting a stable route after having traveled so close to the sun is damn hard.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 73d
Right, Mercury is the "lump of clay" in the oven, not the volcany "pressure cooker" that is Venus. Mixed them up.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 73d
Just name the probe Daedelus. That should work.
/s
Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 73d
The Venus pic is bs
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 73d
The Russian space program worked incredibly hard to get those images. They focused on Venus when nobody else was sending missions there. I mean, still nobody else has really sent anything there!
But the Venera Program was incredibly successful, despite Venus being an extraordinarily harsh environment to operate in.
Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 73d
I didn't know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks. It's unbelievable.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 73d
Iirc, the probe lasted half an hour before being destroyed. It's an astonishing achievement to have sent back those pictures.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 73d
That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 73d
Lol, wut?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 73d
The picture was black and white. The yellow was added after.I was mistaken, the 2nd last and final probe had colour.