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  • A wave of nervous excitement has gripped Indians in recent days as the scheduled descent approached. Temples and mosques held special prayers for a safe landing. On the banks of the River Ganges in Varanasi, Hindu monks bestowed blessings on the mission and blew conch shells.

    At street parties on Wednesday evening, Indians celebrated the double triumph of being the first to land on the south pole and the fourth to land on the moon.

    In the final few minutes before touchdown, the lander executed a complex manoeuvre, slowing down from 3,730 miles an hour to nearly zero and turning from a horizontal to a vertical position.

    The right tilt and thrust at this moment were vital. If too much force was applied, the lander would have toppled. Too little force and it might have hit the lunar surface at the wrong place.

    It was this end manoeuvre that went wrong in the final few minutes of India’s last moon mission in 2019, when the lander failed to change position and hurtled towards the surface during the final braking phase.

    Well, I’ll be damned. I was super happy for India, but now I feel a bit of their pride too.

    Congratulations all involved! Hell of a job. Well earned.




  • saltesc@lemmy.worldBannedtono context@lemmy.worldPIC
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    The evidence is that it looks exactly like and is Silva and looks nothing like and is not Putin.

    Have you been tested for prosopagnosia?

    Also, calm the fuck down.

    Go masturbate, take a break from the internet for a bit, maybe call your mother and see how she’s doing. People shouldn’t be so easily upset about such trivial shit. It’s not healthy and projects deeper issues going on in your life.






  • saltesc@lemmy.worldBannedtoMemes@lemmy.mlGlad to be here
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    If I had to guess, LiftOff, Thunder, Connect, and Sync are the front-runner apps, so try them out. I bounced between 5 when I got here before landing on a favourite. Jerboa has reportedly gone a bit downhill, or other apps have surpassed it. As a former RIF user, I personally didn’t like it.


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    I’m fairly certain the prompt was something like “make a face out of run down village”.

    AI just so happens to use President re-re-elect—yes, two re’s—Luiz da Silva depicted over an impoverished slum. This some 200 days after the former President Bolsonaro—whom you’ve surely heard of at some point since his turbulent term started—lost an election, refused to accept it, claimed to be the victim of a conspiracy by the courts, praised his protestors; who then stormed Congress, the Supreme Court, and Palace; then left for the US before the transition of power could ceremoniously proceed, while his followers are arrested for terroristic acts.

    Meanwhile it would seem the new President is obviously still loathed by the extreme right. It is worth noting they are a leftist with pledges on economical, environmental, and social reform toward left values.

    What an amazing coincidence for the AI!

    However I could be a Russian bot from Pravda, since this guy blames both Ukraine and Russia for their war, not just Russia. And that’s kind of like a W for Putin since he would take what he can get in terms of international support right now.