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NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover: Never used, one previous owner
- helsinkiandrew 2y agohttps://archive.ph/2QINr https://archive.ph/2QINr
- bilekas 2y agoI just got a very hard block from this link from the `Ministero dell'Interno`...
- veggieWHITES 2y agoScary stuff... Condolences :/ Try TOR?
- bilekas 2y agoNo need, just a notice to others that would maybe prefer not to support such 'hosting' services. It was not trademark/copyright related I can say.
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- tough 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
- generic92034 2y agoOr you could question the reasoning of your Ministry of Interior. Those archiving sites are vital for the internet to have some kind of "memory". See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
- bilekas 2y agoThats not what it's bocking it for apperantly. Obviously I wouldn't have a problem with simply archiving. https://imgur.com/a/RSQIKP2 https://imgur.com/a/RSQIKP2
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- lolinder 2y agoYikes, mind sharing which country you're in that has those kinds of hard blocks?
- alfiopuglisi 2y agoI am in Italy as well and the link works fine.
- bilekas 2y agoThe link i get is : https://imgur.com/a/RSQIKP2 https://imgur.com/a/RSQIKP2 STOP ! PAGINA INTERDETTA DAL CENTRO NAZIONALE PER IL CONTRASTO DELLA PEDOPORNOGRAFIA ONLINE (C.N.C.P.O.) Il tuo browser sta tentando di raggiungere un sito Internet contenente immagini e filmati di pedopornografia minorile. L'inibizione dell'accesso a questo sito é prevista dalla legge n. 38/2006. Questo servizio di protezione della navigazione sulla rete Internet è predisposto grazie alla collaborazione tra il Centro Nazionale per il Contrasto della Pedopornografia Online e gli Internet Service Providers italiani. La visualizzazione intenzionale, la diffusione, la detenzione, la cessione, la produzione e la commercializzazione di questo tipo di materiale sono puniti dalla legge come reato.
- satiric 2y agoI read this as "Ministero dell'Inferno" (Ministry of Hell) and was sad to see that it was actually much more mundane.
- Y_Y 2y agoHow many moons must a moon rover before you can call it a rover?
- grues-dinner 2y ago> Just wait a sodding minute! You want a question that goes with the answer for 42? Well, how about "What's six times seven?" Or "How many Vogons does it take to change a lightbulb?" Here's one! "How many roads must a man walk down?" One more for the list!
- pxeger1 2y agoHow much moon could a moon rover rove if a moon cover could rove moon?
- interludead 2y agoIf a moon rover could rove as much moon as a moon rover could, that moon rover would rove all the moon it could rove!
- ax0ar 2y agoIf that moon rover roved all the moon it could rove, then the moon it roved would be the roved moon that no other moon rover could hope to rove.
- woleium 2y agoit saddens me to see this site devolve into meaningless reddit like slop. Please do your part to help keep the signal to noise ratio up.
- jerkstate 2y agodownvote off-topic content and move on
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- blackoil 2y agoMeh. I have few Mars, Europa rover in case anyone is interested.
- metaphor 2y agoOutsider looking in, this article[1] published circa Jul 2022 appears to add some historical color to the status quo...it all seems related to CLPS[2] failures surrounding a few involved primes[3][4]. In any case, sure does look like a nasty Nunn-McCurdy breach that NASA has on their hands. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasa-replans-clps-delivery-of-viper-to-2024-to-reduce-risk-2/ https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasa-replans-clps-delivery... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Servi... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobotic_Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrobotic_Technology [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masten_Space_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masten_Space_Systems
- philipwhiuk 2y agoThat's not the case. The rover itself, made by NASA, experienced cost growth. This is a longstanding problem in science missions and so, in an era of fiscal tightening, they chose not to add more money to VIPER. "Nunn-McCurdy" is weapons regulation. It doesn't apply here directly, but there are Congressional reporting requirements for it.
- 0xffff2 2y agoIt's absolutely the case. The rover was built in the middle of Covid. Given the challenges that created, the cost growth on the rover itself was quite reasonable. The problem right now is that NASA HQ has no confidence in the CLPS contractor building the lander, but it's not politically correct to throw a private company under the bus.
- seydor 2y agostill looks better than the cybertruck
- interludead 2y agoAnd the moon rover is designed to handle actual craters
- nolist_policy 2y agoAt 0.166g thought.
- interludead 2y agoTrue, the moon’s lower gravity does change how the rover interacts with craters
- glitchc 2y agoThe OG EV truck.
- nsonha 2y agowhat doesn't? duh
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- amelius 2y agoHere are the keys. And by the way, we parked it on the Moon.
- woleium 2y agoA fully functioning rover on the moon would be worth significantly more than on earth, no?
- freedomben 2y agoYes, but only if it also comes with all the communication equipment. If it's fully functional, but you can't talk to it, probably not worth anything.
- iambateman 2y agoI think the collectible value of “only rover on the moon” would be extraordinary regardless of functionality.
- wongarsu 2y agoIt would be the ninth. The honor of the first lunar rover goes to the Soviets. And in recent times China, India and Japan have all successfully deployed rovers on the moon. If it had been launched fast enough it could have become the first American (self-driving) rover on the moon. And still among the first ten rovers. That would be worth something to some collector
- trothamel 2y agoIn 1993, the price of a non-functional lunar rover was $68,500. That's how much Richard Garriott (son of astronaut Owen Garriott, creator of the Ultima game series, and after that, private astronaut that spent 12 days at the ISS) spent to purchase the rights to Lunokhod 2 and the Luna 21 lander.
- hshshshsvsv 2y agoI want to know what kind of mental models you used to arrive at that conclusion. Curious.
- highwayman47 2y ago"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
- hatsix 2y agoHeh, I mentioned this to my wife a while back, she said that we've had a pair of shoes since our first (of three) that had never been worn, and that shoes at our second hand store are often labeled that way. Turns out, baby shoes are aesthetic only, baby's feet aren't really foot-shaped yet so they're hard to put on, and if they're moving, they're crawling, and shoes make it impossible to use their feet while crawling. The shoes were either a gift, or something she bought before the baby was born... So that story made her think of the naivety of pre-parents and chuckle, I had to explain why people found it sad, and her response was "those people have never tried to put baby shoes on a baby". Which is to say, I think that her take makes this even more apt response... the people getting sad about this have never tried to put a rover on the moon.
- thfuran 2y agoI tried, but I'm not tall enough. And the big ones are really heavy.
- terribleperson 2y agoI think the sentence could be made more correct by replacing shoes with booties. Baby booties are the thick, typically woven, often hand-woven footwear used to keep a baby's feet warm. They're often gifted by family to the expecting parents and sometimes kept as a keepsake, so someone getting rid of never-worn booties works a little better. Though it's typically considered distasteful to sell handmade gifts. Of course, the sentence seems to work fine as a story regardless of its correctness, based on its enduring popularity.
- hristov 2y agoIt is very suspicious that the companies bidding are NASA contractors. This may be a case of corruption. I.E., NASA sells the moon rover for 85 M and then pays 200 M for the moon rover to do something for them for future NASA missions.
- Forgeties79 2y agoThis is some pretty heavy speculation based on very little information. Saying "maybe a case" is really doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
- KyleBerezin 2y ago"It's petty suspicious that the only companies trying to buy this mining equipment are other mining companies." Did you expect Walmart to make a bid on it?
- JSDevOps 2y agoMuseums
- freedomben 2y agoIn general, I'm with you about being skeptical. However, in this case, I don't think there is anything weird going on, at least not with the information we have. I've never worked at one of these contractors who service NASA, but in the past I worked for a large defense contractor who in part provided some pretty high-tech stuff to the Air Force among others. One of the things I worked on specifically was the communications computer for the Predator drone. It was the piece of equipment that received all command and control from the ground station, and sent the video back from the drone camera. The actual plane itself was made by a separate company who was more specialized in that aspect. We were very proud to work on Predator, and we absolutely would have loved to have bid on something like that. Even though we made part of it, we didn't have a complete unit. Had we have won a bid to get one, it would have gone into a glass case in our visitor area, where we would proudly display it like a trophy. I would not be surprised in the least if that is what these bidders have in mind. Consider how much fun it would be if you are showing up for a job interview and you see in a glass case in the lobby an actual brand new moon Rover! I know that would be pretty cool for me. I do tend to love museums though, so maybe I'm not the best test case.
- bmitc 2y ago"No low balls. I know what I have."
- theflyingelvis 2y agoDoes the ac blow cold?
- seydor 2y agoI would buy, but i have no moon
- nimbius 2y agoI'm gonna have to call in my NASA moon rover expert. Best I can do is $40.
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- yabbs 2y agoDark side of a Hollywood basement
- pvaldes 2y agoincludes free shipping?
- Kon-Peki 2y agoI'm really disappointed that this isn't listed on GSA Auctions. It could be one of the featured auctions, between the "scrap Lockheed Martin HC-130 Aircraft" (current bid $10,000) and "approximately 8 cords of firewood" (opening bid $10)