Cargie Weasel (General)

you are gonna laugh at this

- Ok the Odysseus lander is a privately owned spacecraft that landed on the moon successfully a few days ago

- Aboard this lander, the artist Jeff Koons had a cube of 125 small metal spheres bolted to the side, to sell NFTs of "the first artwork on the moon" ( source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/style/jeff-koons-moon-phases-odysseus-landing/index.html)

- The lander tipped over on landing, perhaps it snagged a rock or landed poorly, and now its antennas and solar panels are pointed in the wrong directions (source: https://www.sciencealert.com/the-odysseus-moon-lander-is-tipped-over-but-why )

The down side of the lander contains the CUBE WITH THE ART, which makes you wonder if it contributed to the lander being unbalanced and it top heavy in that direction. Did they account for the weight of 125 ball bearings on one side of the lander, mounted high up for photography purposes?

tl;dr NFTs wrecked the lunar lander, hooray for capitalism and private space travel

Feb 26, 2024 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadKT controls miniature worldsFeb 26, 2024
@cargo
LOL "Odie"?
So not only is it named after the Greek guy who got lost for ten years, their nickname for it is the brainless dog from "Garfield"?
Show threadnytpu the wyvernFeb 26, 2024
@cargo Wouldn't be NFT bullshit without blatant lies too, because it's almost certainly not the first so-called artwork on the moon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Museum
Moon Museum - Wikipedia

Show threadCargie Weasel (General)Feb 26, 2024
@nytpu they said "first authorized art" specifically to get around that
Show threadapaluFeb 26, 2024
@cargo @nytpu if its authorized is it really art
Show threadAndrewFeb 26, 2024
@cargo @nytpu Everyone knows art only counts as art when the government allows it
Show threadRuss SharekFeb 26, 2024

@nytpu @cargo

I hadn't seen the moon museum before. I read about smuggling the wafer onto a spacecraft and thought, "that's punk af"

Space corporations will never be this cool.

Show threadCargie Weasel (General)Feb 26, 2024
@RussSharek @nytpu whether they work for NASA or spaceX or whatever, geeks are still geeks. benign little hidden stuff like that is constantly snuck into microchips, spacecraft, any complex device where its unlikely to be discovered
Show threadAndrewFeb 26, 2024
@cargo I really doubt the ball bearing mass causing the tip over, especially with such a wide landing base, but this is still very funny.
Show threadKore Artemis (A-314) Feb 26, 2024
@cargo this is not quite true, the lander is oriented in such a way that both its solar panels and antennae work as designed, and nasa and the company are trying to figure out which instruments are operable, which is probably not all but most, so this mission is scientifically probably almost a full success, the only major casualty is the “art” which no one cares about anyways
Show threadKore Artemis (A-314) Feb 26, 2024
@cargo all of which is contained in your own source btw