So, did the Chinese fake it too?

littlegreenman

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02765/moon_2765917b.jpg

Jade Rabbit lands on the moon!

randomhandclaps

It was probably just a whisper that got out of control.

ICBM

When I heard that the Chinese had sent Yutu to the Moon I wondered if Bono had said something pompous about human rights last time he was there.

randomhandclaps

ICBM said:

When I heard that the Chinese had sent Yutu to the Moon I wondered if Bono had said something pompous about human rights last time he was there.

The Chinese are now flying a second mission to get Bono's favourite hat to him.

randomhandclaps

Jade Rabbit may have gone to the moon but Jessica certainly got dealt the better hand looks wise.

 

chillidoggy

randomhandclaps said:

ICBM said:

When I heard that the Chinese had sent Yutu to the Moon I wondered if Bono had said something pompous about human rights last time he was there.

The Chinese are now flying a second mission to get Bono's favourite hat to him.

One can only hope that Sting is going with it.

IanSavage

MIght look as good as the USA's missions initially, but the frets are badly finished and the binding will start to come off after a while.

ICBM

One of the solar panels is definitely a bit wonky. It probably costs 10% of what the American version does for 90% of the performance though.

Myranda

If America did fake it then they'll get pretty embarrassed if the Chinese send their robot to have a look  

Unless the Chinese also faked it... and then maybe I've been faked too? Is anyone or anything real?

johnnyurq

randomhandclaps said:

Jade Rabbit may have gone to the moon but Jessica certainly got dealt the better hand looks wise.

 

I thought you meant this for a minute. Probably NSFW.

http://www.evestoy.com/jade-rabbit-lover-p-357.html

It may get into a space not actual Space.

hungrymark

ICBM said:

One of the solar panels is definitely a bit wonky. It probably costs 10% of what the American version does for 90% of the performance though.

I love this sort of thing. Like when I was playing football the other day and a friend dislocated his collar bone. The ambulance arrived and started to sort him out and this chap on the side pipes up, 'Well, I'm no paramedic but I reckon they're doing that wrong'.

ICBM

hungrymark said:

I love this sort of thing. Like when I was playing football the other day and a friend dislocated his collar bone. The ambulance arrived and started to sort him out and this chap on the side pipes up, 'Well, I'm no paramedic but I reckon they're doing that wrong'.

I was joking . The solar panel is probably tilted on purpose, to get a better angle to the sun.

I don't actually doubt the Chinese know exactly what they're doing and are very thorough and competent engineers - they have to be even to have got it safely to the Moon. I'd like to see humans return to the Moon too, and now for the first time since I was a child I think it will happen in my lifetime. The spacecraft will have a red flag on it.

frankus

hungrymark said:

ICBM said:

One of the solar panels is definitely a bit wonky. It probably costs 10% of what the American version does for 90% of the performance though.

I love this sort of thing. Like when I was playing football the other day and a friend dislocated his collar bone. The ambulance arrived and started to sort him out and this chap on the side pipes up, 'Well, I'm no paramedic but I reckon they're doing that wrong'.

S'funny because I have no problem with that...

2 years ago I had a back problem and went to the doctors and osteopaths (all told it cost several thousand pounds in lost earnings and osteo bills) and 3 weeks, a full course of sessions, diazapam, anti-inflamatories and a metric shit load of ibuprofen later I had Scoliosis and couldn't return to Karate for 6 months.

2 weeks ago I had exactly the same back problem (to give an indication - I couldn't get into a car, touch my toes or walk upright for about 5 days) - through rigourous walking, stretching very regularly, really carefully pushing myself every hour - I did a timed 3 mile run last weekend (as part of my grading) - then a 2 hour karate session and this weekend a 6 hour intense Karate grading complete with about an hour of full contact sparring at the end- and passed.

If I'd gone to the doctors I'd have been binned.

There seems to be a conceit (or an alarming lack of humility) among the "qualified"; firstly that it's anything other than an introduction to the discipline. Secondly that a different perspective is only valid if it wins some "intellectualised version" of top-trumps. It is well documented that these people treat the injury - not the person.

Ambulance drivers are trained to restart people and get them into a state to travel to hospital - they aren't sports physicians or even on a par with General Practicioners who are equally not sports physicians, psychologists, occupational therapists or oncologists - but you'd be surprised how often they fail to refer to these people.

"I'm no expert" might not have been an ambulance driver but he might know something - equally his concern could have been picked up by a qualified physio or at least made a person who's capable of taking criticism to reassess what they're doing -  I don't see why he's provoked your contempt; was he a know-it-all or a concerned honest individual moved to speak up?

hungrymark

ICBM said:

hungrymark said:

I love this sort of thing. Like when I was playing football the other day and a friend dislocated his collar bone. The ambulance arrived and started to sort him out and this chap on the side pipes up, 'Well, I'm no paramedic but I reckon they're doing that wrong'.

I was joking

@frankus, @ICBM Yes, that's why I found it funny. Same with the guy at the football pitch, he knows he's a know-it-all and deliberately hams it up for inappropriate occasions, cracks me up. He really is no paramedic though, trust me on that...

Never mind, maybe you had to be there ;-)