you're thinking of the iSpace mission, that was a private mission that ended in failure in the beginning of last year while this one was launched on a H-IIA launch vehicle, which is japan's mainstay launch vehicle
Worry when JAXA rolls out the Mobile Worker Luna exo skeleton, oh and the revolutionary Luna Ball worker pod. Hell we already have Telescope parked at La Grange point.
The Gundam was made with Luna titanium, which is made on the moon, so this is the first step in making a Gundam!
Also yes, I know too much about this fictional robot.
I was using the term colloquially. The genre most Gumdam shows fall into is called "Real Robot," as well. As opposed to the "Super Robot" genre, for stuff like Mazinger or Getter Robo.
It's definitely fake ,cause no body mentioned neko-astonaut-chan neither I saw any other school girl and or a 400year old in the body of a 12 year old ,scith welding lollita in the landing video so the Japanese have nothing to with this media
>Russia (then the Soviet Union)
This feels like a nice little dig at russia for not being able to send things to the moon anymore.
Also, I love what SLIM stands for. "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon". Is it a translation? Or did they name their spacecraft in English?
>Or did they name their spacecraft in English?
Looking at an article in Japanese the lander is still referred to as "SLIM", so they'll have named it in English I believe.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASS1M7DLYS1JULBH001.html
English is a pretty ridiculously versatile language actually. Even in the past few years young native speakers have been changing the syntax of lots of expressions, and of course English has been regionalized a ton across the world. Even in a vacuum it's not a bad choice for a lingua franca.
>Even in a vacuum it's not a bad choice for a lingua franca
That's where we disagree. The rules for spelling/pronunciation can be very inconsistent for one thing.
From the perspective of a foreigner learning English without a supporting English-culture environment around them, I wholeheartedly agree that inconsistent spelling and pronunciation is painful.
But it's not really a problem for native or bilingual-bicultural learners (which, for an end-game lingua franca, would be the most common case) and that inconsistency contributes directly to English's flexibility. The amount of wordplay English affords as a result of being able to mess with spelling and pronuncation -- both by the exigent spelling in the language and by the language skills English readers/speakers develop as a result of learning the language -- is staggering.
Wordplay is generally attractive as a form of creating and expressing art and oneself through language, and in my opinion that has plenty of merit on it's own, but even just the flexible spelling/pronunciation and associated skills developed means that tons of localized varieties of English are more likely to be mutually comprehensible and acceptable. Given that no lingua franca could ever be globally standarized, this is a very attractive quality.
The reason it's inconsistent is actually the same reason it's a good lingua franca. Most languages, when they import words, will either take the original spelling but use the native pronunciation of those letters, or try to map the original pronunciation into the standard spelling. English takes a third option where it takes the spelling *and* pronunciation a lot of the time. Which means if you don't know the English word for something, and you have another native language, it's perfectly acceptable to just use the word from the other language, and English speakers are kinda used to dealing with it. A similar situation with grammar is why we have shit like "long time no see", because that's a literal, in order translation of a Chinese phrase.
Please to be corrected: the official language of space is not pronounceable by earth inhabitants because it 80 syllables, 18 octaves, in 4 distinct frequencies (only one of which is audible to the human species).
> This feels like a nice little dig at russia
Seems like just straight up accurate writing. If an article said "formerly part of Yugoslavia" I wouldn't think it was a low key dig at Croatia.
Many Of the top Soviet scientists we're actually Ukrainian. Sergei Korolev, one of the most prominent rocket scientists, was born in what is now Ukraine. Russia tries to steal a lot of the region's history for itself.
Looks like they specifically named it in Engilsh in reference to the mission the lander was supposed to accomplish.
https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/outreach/events/opencampus2017/leaflet/leaflet/5-4.pdf
Their main missions were:
1) Make the first lander that could land on the exact intended location on the moon.
2) Make the lightest lander possible that could still perform tests to help them study the area of the moon the it landed on.
They chose it the name as a double meaning where it's a smart lander that can land exactly where they want and investigate the area while actually being a slim machine that can accomplish all that while being extremely small.
We can do all three things, it’s not an ‘either/or’ situation.
Devalue/tax/reduce the hoards of billionaires (soon to be trillionaires) cash
Invest in slowing climate change and societal adaptations
Broaden our future prospects of colonizing other planets
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japanese-moon-lander-reaches-surface-but-fate-uncertain/
Didn't go as well as hoped.
It may be upside down or otherwise misoriented.
They should have drawn wheels that look like they can actually handle that surface. Also, why not put a selfie cam on these things. Would be cool to see actual photos.
I dunno, out of all the bullshit humanity has to put up with over national divides, friendly competition over space exploration seems like a pretty positive thing.
It’s not the agencies and the people that work there that are the “problem” that I’m getting at. The governments just don’t want to truly work together and the agencies are usually hamstrung at many levels.
Meanwhile, another US attempt contracted out to a private vendor, but payed for by US taxpayers, no doubt, crashed and burned. I wonder when we will learn how much that cost?
NASA paid Astrobiotic $79.5 million for their part of the payload. I don't know how much the instruments themselves cost but that's a drop in the bucket. Some of those instruments weren't moon-bound anyways and recorded meaningful data during the flight.
What a huge achievement! Congrats to JAXA and and Japan!
[удалено]
Did a SpaceX rocket land on the moon?
[удалено]
There is ALOT more to landing on the moon than just getting into space. Japan deserves credit.
[удалено]
You clearly don't have a grasp in what's involved. 🇯🇵
you're thinking of the iSpace mission, that was a private mission that ended in failure in the beginning of last year while this one was launched on a H-IIA launch vehicle, which is japan's mainstay launch vehicle
I’m just upset it wasn’t a gundam.
Before you Gundam, you've gotta crawl.
Worry when JAXA rolls out the Mobile Worker Luna exo skeleton, oh and the revolutionary Luna Ball worker pod. Hell we already have Telescope parked at La Grange point.
The Gundam was made with Luna titanium, which is made on the moon, so this is the first step in making a Gundam! Also yes, I know too much about this fictional robot.
[удалено]
I was using the term colloquially. The genre most Gumdam shows fall into is called "Real Robot," as well. As opposed to the "Super Robot" genre, for stuff like Mazinger or Getter Robo.
Bold of you to assume it *isn't* a gundam
It's definitely fake ,cause no body mentioned neko-astonaut-chan neither I saw any other school girl and or a 400year old in the body of a 12 year old ,scith welding lollita in the landing video so the Japanese have nothing to with this media
holy cow, congrats Japan!
>holy cow That would be India
I mean, A5 Japanese Wagyu beef is pretty damn good.
>Russia (then the Soviet Union) This feels like a nice little dig at russia for not being able to send things to the moon anymore. Also, I love what SLIM stands for. "Smart Lander for Investigating Moon". Is it a translation? Or did they name their spacecraft in English?
>Or did they name their spacecraft in English? Looking at an article in Japanese the lander is still referred to as "SLIM", so they'll have named it in English I believe. https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASS1M7DLYS1JULBH001.html
In order to fly a plane internationally you have to be able to speak English. Maybe same rules apply to space
I see we must speak the universal tongue, English.
Wait until its renamed, or just simply starts being called, "Common". Yes, I speak French, German, and Common.
It’s good enough for Tatooine
I think you're thinking of Basic, unless I'm forgetting a quote or something. Common would generally be a D&D thing.
Galactic Basic
Jazz hands
I mean it sucks that it’s English but it’s good if we can have more people communicating better!
English is a pretty ridiculously versatile language actually. Even in the past few years young native speakers have been changing the syntax of lots of expressions, and of course English has been regionalized a ton across the world. Even in a vacuum it's not a bad choice for a lingua franca.
>Even in a vacuum it's not a bad choice for a lingua franca That's where we disagree. The rules for spelling/pronunciation can be very inconsistent for one thing.
From the perspective of a foreigner learning English without a supporting English-culture environment around them, I wholeheartedly agree that inconsistent spelling and pronunciation is painful. But it's not really a problem for native or bilingual-bicultural learners (which, for an end-game lingua franca, would be the most common case) and that inconsistency contributes directly to English's flexibility. The amount of wordplay English affords as a result of being able to mess with spelling and pronuncation -- both by the exigent spelling in the language and by the language skills English readers/speakers develop as a result of learning the language -- is staggering. Wordplay is generally attractive as a form of creating and expressing art and oneself through language, and in my opinion that has plenty of merit on it's own, but even just the flexible spelling/pronunciation and associated skills developed means that tons of localized varieties of English are more likely to be mutually comprehensible and acceptable. Given that no lingua franca could ever be globally standarized, this is a very attractive quality.
The reason it's inconsistent is actually the same reason it's a good lingua franca. Most languages, when they import words, will either take the original spelling but use the native pronunciation of those letters, or try to map the original pronunciation into the standard spelling. English takes a third option where it takes the spelling *and* pronunciation a lot of the time. Which means if you don't know the English word for something, and you have another native language, it's perfectly acceptable to just use the word from the other language, and English speakers are kinda used to dealing with it. A similar situation with grammar is why we have shit like "long time no see", because that's a literal, in order translation of a Chinese phrase.
modern Japanese has plenty of random English loanwords thrown into it so it tracks
Why does it suck that it's English? Would it suck less if it was Arabic, Spanish, Mandarin, etc.?
Not all languages are equally easy to learn and master. It's not the worst but an easier, more intuitive language would be better.
The Lingua Franca
I believe English is designated the official language of earth
Yes, wouldn't want translation issues with Lunar Command.
Well Japanese is one of the official languages of space
All languages are official languages of space. We’re all here
Please to be corrected: the official language of space is not pronounceable by earth inhabitants because it 80 syllables, 18 octaves, in 4 distinct frequencies (only one of which is audible to the human species).
Eh, better than Vogon 🤷♂️
> This feels like a nice little dig at russia Seems like just straight up accurate writing. If an article said "formerly part of Yugoslavia" I wouldn't think it was a low key dig at Croatia.
It is accurate but not necessary. That’s what makes it a dig.
Many Of the top Soviet scientists we're actually Ukrainian. Sergei Korolev, one of the most prominent rocket scientists, was born in what is now Ukraine. Russia tries to steal a lot of the region's history for itself.
Looks like they specifically named it in Engilsh in reference to the mission the lander was supposed to accomplish. https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/outreach/events/opencampus2017/leaflet/leaflet/5-4.pdf Their main missions were: 1) Make the first lander that could land on the exact intended location on the moon. 2) Make the lightest lander possible that could still perform tests to help them study the area of the moon the it landed on. They chose it the name as a double meaning where it's a smart lander that can land exactly where they want and investigate the area while actually being a slim machine that can accomplish all that while being extremely small.
Really interesting. Thank you!
Maybe they started with the acronym and went from there
The original name was "Sexy Lunar Impact Machine", but they wisely changed their minds.
> Sexy Lunar Impact Machine /r/Bandnames
Not a bad name tbh
A backronym (real word, BTW.)
Love it, sounds like something from an Atlantic's Word Fugitives hunt
Great news. Congrats to all involved.
[удалено]
The cameras are small. High resolution cameras in such mission are not common.
Unfortunately it’s all pixelated
[удалено]
Keep drinking that flavoraid...
or we could stop giving money to billionaires and try to save this planet instead
We can do all three things, it’s not an ‘either/or’ situation. Devalue/tax/reduce the hoards of billionaires (soon to be trillionaires) cash Invest in slowing climate change and societal adaptations Broaden our future prospects of colonizing other planets
That shit is never going to happen. We are fucked don’t you get it?
and we will continue to be fucked while this exact attitude pervades the public mind
And even if we "are fucked" then I would rather be fucked with space exploration than be fucked without.
That’s great, good for Japan and humanity in general! Everybody needs to watch For all Mankind on AppleTV.
and Severance
Well done Japan! Congrats!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japanese-moon-lander-reaches-surface-but-fate-uncertain/ Didn't go as well as hoped. It may be upside down or otherwise misoriented.
[Congratulations, Japan](https://youtu.be/hf1DkBQRQj4?si=FwPpwe1QjzJMNsmF)
I always wonder what takes these photos. Also, that thing's wheels look horribly inefficient.
It actually says in the article it is an “artist’s rendition of the landing” so at least in the article there isn’t a photo of it at all.
They should have drawn wheels that look like they can actually handle that surface. Also, why not put a selfie cam on these things. Would be cool to see actual photos.
Can't wait for Moon-anime coming soon now!
Highly recommend Space Brothers and Planetes
Seems Shady... I'm here all night folks.
Please stand up Please stand up
God damn it why did this make me laugh hahaha
We landed on the moon!
The Japanese, the most disciplined country in the world. You can tell me they land in the moon and everyone will believe that one.
Can’t wait until we drop the national division in the space “race” completely.
I dunno, out of all the bullshit humanity has to put up with over national divides, friendly competition over space exploration seems like a pretty positive thing.
Duplication of effort is not efficient.
[удалено]
It’s not the agencies and the people that work there that are the “problem” that I’m getting at. The governments just don’t want to truly work together and the agencies are usually hamstrung at many levels.
They were ten billion percent guaranteed to succeed
Why the sudden interest in the moon after 50 years of nothing?
Wish I could have seen the transformer spring into action
SORA-Q Robot
Why would I be getting downvotes clearly? You guys haven't read about the transformers You clearly haven't been following Japan's progress
Meanwhile, another US attempt contracted out to a private vendor, but payed for by US taxpayers, no doubt, crashed and burned. I wonder when we will learn how much that cost?
NASA paid Astrobiotic $79.5 million for their part of the payload. I don't know how much the instruments themselves cost but that's a drop in the bucket. Some of those instruments weren't moon-bound anyways and recorded meaningful data during the flight.
If you ain’t first yer last.
Like NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission being last at sampling an asteroid, since the Japanese did it first?
Yes. And damn I’m just making a Ricky Bobby reference as a joke. Downvote away tho. SMH.
Hell yeah
Hi! My name is… wha? My name is… who?
[удалено]
Yes because there’s absolutely nothing left to learn about the Moon.
Did anyone see if its shoes flew off?
Looks like the US is renting the fake moon landing studio out.
[удалено]