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Lunatic Partying with the Goddess n' Bunny - The Chang'e 3 cheerleading thread!
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 01 Dec, 2013 04:34
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Seeing that the launch of a run-of-the-mill comsat got a 27+ page partying thread, and that we also have a party thread for the last planetary landing last year, it would only be fitting to open up yet another party thread for the first Moon Landing in many of our lifetimes - and a complex mission in all of that! (any member here who is less than 37 yrs old)
As someone who have been feverishly following the recent developments of Chinese spaceflight, there's no way I can't be a cheerleader for this mission.
Good Luck to all who participate on this mission! And for the lander and the bunny, have a safe landing and driving on the Moon!
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#1
by
savuporo
on 01 Dec, 2013 04:57
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Most appropriate.
Go Yutu !
( and yes, im one of those under 37 )
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#2
by
Phillip Clark
on 01 Dec, 2013 07:26
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My actual memory of lunar missions - rather then just reading about them - goes back to Luna 4 in April 1963. I was off school (mid-term holiday) in June 1966 for the Surveyor 1 landing and for the first time we saw "live from the Moon" on the television as the first of those surface photos came in and were immediately released to the world.
Crossed fingers for Chang'e 3. Making a survivable landing on another world is not easy as the Soviets discovered with all of their pre-Luna 9 failures. And while Surveyor 1 was successful, neither Surveyors 2 nor 4 managed a soft landing. Should Chang'e 3 crash I hope that there will be no snide comments from anywhere.
I wonder whether the Chinese will want two successful soft-landings before proceeding with their sample-return mission or whether they will go ahead if only one of Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 is successful?
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#3
by
plutogno
on 01 Dec, 2013 09:44
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I was 5 when Luna 24 landed on the Moon. technically I was around during the final 3 Apollos, but I was 6 weeks old when Apollo 15 launched so...
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#4
by
Phillip Clark
on 01 Dec, 2013 10:05
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I hope that I live long enough to see the Chinese become the next nation to land people on the Moon.
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#5
by
HappyMartian
on 01 Dec, 2013 10:13
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I want to see China and everyone else on the Moon building infrastructure and doing ISRU to get ready for sustainable Mars and Ceres missions!
Good luck to the Goddess n' Bunny! Fly well and land softly.
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#6
by
plutogno
on 01 Dec, 2013 10:20
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I am not into manned missions at all. so I wish the Chinese (and everybody else) tens of successful unmanned missions!
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#7
by
savuporo
on 01 Dec, 2013 10:22
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I heard they will try and sample the
Wensleydale ( my second favorite lunar landing )
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#8
by
baldusi
on 01 Dec, 2013 11:39
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I'll be having family supper during the launch
And I don't have any hopes of media passing the news. Not on the day the football championship is decided. But all my best wishes to the Chinese for this wonderful endeavor.
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#9
by
Lar
on 01 Dec, 2013 11:42
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I ALWAYS like partying with bunnies and goddesses... if they'll give me the time of day.
Count my voice in the chorus of well wishers... and good luck little bunny. What you've set out to do is not easy. Make your parents proud.
If this wakes the rest of the world up, that would be even better.
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#10
by
Phillip Clark
on 01 Dec, 2013 11:48
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I'll be having family supper during the launch
And I don't have any hopes of media passing the news. Not on the day the football championship is decided. But all my best wishes to the Chinese for this wonderful endeavor.
What's football?
And if you can get an online link to CCTV showing the launch live what more do you need today? Launch is my normal meal time in the UK but that will be delayed for The Great Event. Maybe if you have satellite TV you will find CCTV hidden away as one of the channels you never watch.
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#11
by
robertross
on 01 Dec, 2013 12:42
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Well, here's hoping all the best for today's launch!
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#12
by
Chris Bergin
on 01 Dec, 2013 13:12
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I don't know what's stranger......someone saying they aren't interested in manned missions or an Englishman saying "what's football?"
Oh how I hate party threads
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#13
by
Rocket Science
on 01 Dec, 2013 13:39
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I hope that I live long enough to see the Chinese become the next nation to land people on the Moon.
Unless you're 100, you probably won't have to wait long....
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#14
by
Phillip Clark
on 01 Dec, 2013 13:57
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I don't know what's stranger......someone saying they aren't interested in manned missions or an Englishman saying "what's football?"
Oh how I hate party threads
All of those ball-propelling activities are equally boring for me - they always have been. :-)
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#15
by
Phillip Clark
on 01 Dec, 2013 13:59
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I hope that I live long enough to see the Chinese become the next nation to land people on the Moon.
Unless you're 100, you probably won't have to wait long....
If the Chinese do it in 2025 then it will be around the time of my 75th. Back in 1999 I predicted on the BBC that the Chinese would have a crew on the Moon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. Slightly wrong there!
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#16
by
HappyMartian
on 01 Dec, 2013 14:24
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I don't know what's stranger......someone saying they aren't interested in manned missions or an Englishman saying "what's football?"
Oh how I hate party threads
All of those ball-propelling activities are equally boring for me - they always have been. :-)
I used to play a lot of basketball.
Sometimes I wonder what basketball, international football, American football, volleyball, baseball, and golf would be like inside a very large Lunar dome. Plays and ballets performed on the Moon could be fun for everyone.
Lunar sports and performing arts could someday be big money makers on TV and attract lots of tourists...
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#17
by
Phillip Clark
on 01 Dec, 2013 14:42
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Lower gravity would mean that the sports were slower and therefore they would take longer and thus be more boring ............
Yawn .........
;-)
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#18
by
baldusi
on 01 Dec, 2013 15:18
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I'll be having family supper during the launch
And I don't have any hopes of media passing the news. Not on the day the football championship is decided. But all my best wishes to the Chinese for this wonderful endeavor.
What's football?
CABJ and Riquelme, Tevez and Gago.
And if you can get an online link to CCTV showing the launch live what more do you need today? Launch is my normal meal time in the UK but that will be delayed for The Great Event. Maybe if you have satellite TV you will find CCTV hidden away as one of the channels you never watch.
Family means grandma. Not even Internet access. And the phone doesn't cut it for streaming. Twitter is the best I'll be able to do.
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#19
by
Chris Bergin
on 01 Dec, 2013 16:14
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I don't know what's stranger......someone saying they aren't interested in manned missions or an Englishman saying "what's football?"
Oh how I hate party threads
All of those ball-propelling activities are equally boring for me - they always have been. :-)
I support York City, so I'm not in a great position to change your view!
Anyone know the name of the Chinese presenter on the English webcast? He's very good.
