Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/23/intuitive-machines-odysseus-lands-on-the-moon.html
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This doesn’t sound as good as he thinks it sounds…
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Odysseus? Just you wait! Something will happen, with random acts of gods, and it’ll be lost for ten years while it tries to get back.
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Why do I have the uncomfortable feeling that artificial intuition is even more problematic than artificial intelligence?
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Hey, Odysseus, getting there was the easy part. Getting back to Ithaca is the real challenge.
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You’re not happy we aren’t relying on those socialist ‘North American Rockwell’ and ‘Boeing’ types that used to build the rockets?
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More that “commercial interests in space” has never been imagined as positive for pretty good reason (profit motive, mostly). There’s also a pretty big difference between buying parts from companies and companies running their own space programs.
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Man, that takes me back a ways.
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Intuitive Machines sounds like a plastic engineering toy kit you buy at a science museum gift shop
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when nasa does spaceflight, i have this feeling like “look what we’re able to do” and with something like this “look what they’re able to do.”
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Funny you should say that! The CEO was just explaining that he thinks it tipped over upon landing, using what looks to be a small plastic toy as a visual aid:
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So, half a century after we walked on the moon someone landed a gadget there that immediately fell over. So very impressed!
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Reminds me of the previous SLIM moon lander which was upside down. Maybe it’s time to close the “top-heavy school of moon lander design.”
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Moon Landers can tip over? If only … oh, wait…
(Yes, different mode of failure. But still, very similar end result. The question now is whether Intuitive Machines will enter the spiral of doom which is somewhat traditional for private space ventures when the first big demonstration goes wrong and the investors pull out.)
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OK, how about… we put landing feet all around the craft and make it symmetrically looking… problem solved
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I kinda like the bouncing ball approch the Soviets used in the early 1960ies.
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On Friday, shares of Intuitive Machines, which is the first private company to successfully land on the moon, tumbled by 30% in extended trade, after news that the spacecraft had tipped over.
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