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Japan's moon probe landed upside-down but somehow it still works (www.businessinsider.com)
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nations flock to the cratered south pole and far side of the moon, where critical resources such as water could be mined.

Is capitalism so prevalent, we're running out of ocean already?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Don't follow much space news but guessing it's for colonization possibilities / setting up stations

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm kind of excited about it honestly, especially with talks of setting up an orbital lunar station like the ISS. Maybe I've played too much KSP and Elite Dangerous, but I think the fact that they're starting to build truck stops in space is cool as fuck. It's going to open up a lot of new possibilities for space travel and infrastructure.