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wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

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Ventral EggSac posted:

Wasn't that cause of the US not using the metric system and they forgot to convert units or am I making that up?

I think they actually smashed it into the planet because it ended up on a way lower trajectory than planned because of conversion fuckups. The US actually has a pretty good record for landing things on Mars. It's other countries, particularly Russia, that have this weird inability to consistently do this thing we have a pretty reasonable success rate at doing.

Though I did learn that China joined the "Sent poo poo to Mars successfully" club this month and will be attempting a probe landing later this year.

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wilderthanmild
Jun 21, 2010

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ilmucche posted:

Didn't israel crash a bunch of tardigrades on the moon? Humanity might've polluted the moon with things that can actually survive there

The intentionally were landing them on the moon. They just landed them harder than planned.

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