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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Failure. Just as the Japanese one that was labeled a failure by the western news just weeks before that did the exact same thing. Articles were even published saying after japan's failure, the US could be the first to land successfully on the moon in so many decades. And it didn't so its a failure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Japan’s lander met all of their own internal criteria for being considered a success. And I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s at least partially true for this lander as well. This thing was absurdly inexpensive relative to previous projects, IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would agree that the Japanese lander was a success. But I refuse to enable western hypocrisy that labels the exact same actions by two different stages in opposing viewpoints just for propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Sure. Calling the Japanese lander a failure and this one a success would be hypocrisy. I think both should be called successes, to some degree of the word success.