What Japan Did on the Moon Is Game-Changing | Moon Sniper SLIM

[@bugsbunny8691]

That's because the aliens on the far side charge the batteries. Not because they want to help, but because of their alien sense of humor, it really cracks them up.

[@evlkenevl2721]

"Just run up, hit it real quick, then hide. It drives 'em nuts!"

[@farmerted487]

I've wondered the same thing about the cleaning events on the Mars rovers. lol

[@CatOfNaps]

That one alien in the group: "LOOK AT THIS! LOOK ATTHIS! LOOK AT THIS! LOOK AT THIS! LOOK! IT FLIPPED OVER!"

[@American_In_Latvia]

They do have an excellent sense of humor.

[@SpaceRanger187]

You would think we would have a base on the moon and thousands of cameras and a live feed of earth.. But we don't.. Its like the Mars rover that isn't on Mars

[@aaronwilliams9032]

It always surprises me how relatively cheap these missions cost! The most expensive one you listed was less than some lack luster movies that have come out recently.

[@GemHerzog]

Tbf, those were only the costs of landers and rovers themselves. This doesn’t account for rocket boosters, man hours, etc.

[@epessoarocha]

I have a japanese rice cooker that is working everyday for 30 years. It's still snow white despite taking direct sun on the kitchen everyday. I'm not surprised that a japanese lunar probe would survive after this. It's a Sanyo IH rice cooker with a microprocessor. My car 30 years ago (in Brazil) had "zero" microprocessors.

[@alveolate]

back in the day before "planned obsolescence" became a thing, many appliances lasted for decades, regardless of brand or country of origin. these things are also in a totally different league from a lunar probe - they're definitely not dealing with 300C swings. if you had a budget of 120mil, you could make a rice cooker last for 10,000 years on earth, and it would probably also do your taxes.

[@palodus2]

*Vertical stand sold separately.

[@tiefblau2780]

And you wonder why Plastation didnt sell the disk ... XD everyone loves profits ... but hates spending XD , Just look at the people that have credit card debt XD

[@johnmann6866]

A wonderful achievement, but it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at a probe landing upside down. Here's hoping they get that problem sorted for the next attempt.

[@MemphiStig]

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they landed it "upside down" by design, and only acted like it was a mistake to mock the rest of us. But I'm still donkey-laughing them for it just because. Better luck next time.

[@yaldabaoth2]

Me, a Kerbal veteran: "Mhm, I know these landing troubles very well. Good job!"

[@RimsJobs]

Landing on moon by hand is HARD

[@benjaminjones5029]

Me a space engineer beta.. Why your space ships so aerodynamic????!!

[@bluewater82]

Nothing like making it to the surface just to fall over because the ground is too steep.

[@gonnmz]

@@RimsJobs mun?

[@mrman5517]

KSP taught me the golden rule of landers: 4 legs good, 3 legs bad!

[@blastcoop6037]

They used Observation Haki for precise landing, and some kind of devil fruit for fuel. I'm not surprised anymore with Japan achieving such feat. Japan always knows how, where and when to use their very advanced tech. Congrats to Japan.

[@Bunny99s]

Glad it made it down to the surface in One Piece :P

[@fisch69]

Why couldn’t this channel get a real announcer to narrate? This is so low tech AI that can’t say JAPAN !! Not Jackson!!! Rediculous ..

[@alveolate]

@@fisch69 is this a joke? it's JAXA, in case anyone else is confused.

[@dustoleum]

@@fisch69 It's for sure not an AI homie, i think you're just hearing it wrong :)

[@code066funkinbird3]

Yeah

[@Davidbirdman101]

I remember the moon landing. I was 12 years old and we watched it on a black and white t.v.with an antenna on our roof. Someone would have to stand by the window and holler outside to the other person turning the antenna pole to adjust it for maximum clarity😂😂 I lived in North Mississippi in the delta, home of endless cotton fields and mud and the blues. My cousin and I got a bunch of cardboard boxes and made our own lunar lander. We painted it white with a big American flag. We also got an old hair dryer, the kind that used to be in " beauty parlors " and had a giant plastic bubble top that funneled the air down on the lady's head while she sat down and waited for her hair to dry. That chair was our " mission control " When I think about my childhood it's like I'm living in another world. We would run through the cotton fields right after they had been sprayed with pesticides by the crop duster planes that were buzzing overhead. Sorry, I'm on a memory jag.😂😂😂😂 Farewell 1969!

[@LadyAdakStillStands]

Our "gang" stripped an old car, wooden crates for seats and "chased" each other with mini-bikes around a big field - no helmets. Swiped lumber and nails for treehouses (multiple). Carried a BB gun or a .22 rifle and shot things including each other. Played Mumblety-Peg. Rode jacked-up stingray bikes lol! Ran with knives, went home when the porch light came on. Good Night to 1969 with original S'mores. 🙈🙉🙊

[@bradwooldidge6979]

I was 10. I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@LeicaM11]

Back in those days, NTSC was common…😅

[@toneenorman2135]

Aaaaa,the good ol’days….

[@dragonslayer0]

Seeing one of humanity's defining moments live is too cool.... The thing about pesticides though, 💀

[@leonyt6745]

Waitwaitwaitwaitwait... it's called SLIM and it landed on the dark side of the moon? So it's.... Slim Shady?! O.O

[@danizanzibar4344]

ughh 🤢🤮

[@kudzukid12]

@@danizanzibar4344I rather liked the joke

[@comfortablynumb9342]

Tell me more about the Dark Side Of The Moon. 😉

[@WolfgerSilberbaer]

Yes. Now will it please stand up?

[@3SIXTYPROD]

Ha nice one

[@NorthernChev]

Nooooo. Do NOT downplay the choices of Apollo landing sites as, "all being similar" because they were on the same side of the Moon (4:10). Nothing could be more farther from the truth. A perfect example would be Apollo 11 and Apollo 14 - Both "relatively" close in proximity but VASTLY (in fact, massively) different in their geological composition. Ap 11 was in the low volcanic Mare and Ap 14 was in the mountainous highlands. Almost nothing similar in their environments. I mean, come ON!

[@hermeticxhaote4723]

Its such a shame the last few missions were canceled. We funded the Vietnam war instead.

[@toneenorman2135]

Wow! Whew…!

[@HisameArtwork]

astrum has really gotten lazy. also "the probe survived 3 days baffling scientists" ... good thing it didn't baffle the engineers that made it. I'm gonna stop watching this channel. into the click bait bin it goes. too bad. I unsubed a while back for other inaccuracies and dumb text. but I was hoping it would recover. guess not.

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

This from the same guy who said Mars reaches 94 degrees in the summer. 😂

[@samstromberg5593]

I mean ... do you know what the other side of the moon is like? I'm not suggesting that 11 and 14 were bad ideas but were any of them similar in geological composition? I just think it would be prudent to land on the other side just to see what it's like, unless we already know

[@PersonManManManMan]

This channel is just so awesome, keep doing what you always kept doing, high quality awesome space research videos!

[@sandragoodman2059]

What happened to LEV-1 and LEV-2? What were they designed to do, and were they successful? What information have they provided?

[@almaztech]

Technology demonstrators mostly. Both battery powered. Lev 2 sent the photo of the spacecraft upside down

[@val8730]

Their mission is to able to receiving command for movement control and send signals by itself to earth in a very small equipment

[@sandragoodman2059]

@@almaztech Thanks!

[@code066funkinbird3]

​@@val8730cool

[@jameswalker7899]

An interesting topic, well presented. Warmest compliments. Thank you, sir. :)

[@LeicaM11]

Great video, sound, voice and style. Really appreciated it.

[@gogdisasters]

I really appreciate how much detail went into this video!

[@greg.peepeeface]

The mainstream media fail in comparison to a long form video like this, THANK YOU! It's very much appreciated because I had no clue as to the accomplishments it made from other landers.

[@wildmanjeff42]

very cool, I did not know this ! I am glad someone somewhere is interested in our moon and all the questions we still have unanswered.

[@WoodrowShigeru]

Dude, I love your enthusiasm. It's so contageous. Please don't change.

[@Librarcade]

I love Japan so much. Thankyou for making a video that showcases this accomplishment honestly up until today I hadn’t heard anything but bad reports making fun of how they landed upside down and that it wouldn’t power up. I’m thrilled to hear the more positive side of the story thankyou I didn’t even know it was able to capture photographs

[@code066funkinbird3]

Yup

[@NothingverseOfficial]

The olivine rocks that SLIM is studying are believed to originate from deep within the moon's mantle, offering scientists a rare opportunity to study materials from the moon's interior, which could reshape theories about lunar evolution.

[@rovcanada1]

Excellent production, Alex. PS: please don't fall into the "aircrafts" mistake; aircraft is both singular and plural. Cheers fella!

[@shapesinaframe]

Same as “Lego”

[@goofballbiscuits3647]

Legos

[@AnjelineNkirote]

Thankyou Astrum for keeping up

[@archangelvalentine]

The rocks with the dog names is precious

[@Alex-pw7si]

Did they complete the infinite tsukuyomi?

[@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah]

I like to think the engineers had that page attached to it where madara completes it. 😂

[@TheKingWhoWins]

Madara- "You've done good work, you miserable Shinobi scum"

[@silywabs]

Lmfao I was thinking the same thing

[@18skunk18]

HAAAA NICE ONE!

[@NathansWargames]

nope, something must have Chang'ed

[@rossmundy9979]

What a wonderful Story. Our collective extra-planetary journey is the gift that keeps on giving. Be proud of Moon Sniper Japan!

[@NoraNoita]

5:00 Concord (game not plane) cost more than 400 milion dollars to be cancel a few days after it launched.

[@creepjax]

Lmao, amazing comparison

[@code066funkinbird3]

And concord got woke and broke

[@jaysmith6255]

One day when someone is able to overcome the harshness of the moon , they will have a lot of cool relics to play with.

[@BeardLAD]

Disturbing portent; I like

[@FactCheckPro2003]

One day when someone is able to overcome the harshness of the moon , they will have a lot of cool relics to play with.

[@PolarUnix]

One day when someone is able to overcome the harshness of the moon , they will have a lot of cool relics to play with.

[@Thealmightysanchez]

You can just hear the joy in Alex’s voice when he’s talking about this. I love it ❤

[@bdr420i]

Made in Japan 🎉 is synonymous with quality 💪🏽

[@Mitch-l5u]

I agree.but can I point out that one of the landing rockets fell off.😄

[@noelstarchild]

Sadly it landed upside down. Close but no cigar.

[@justdoit83388]

​@@noelstarchildMaybe it was made in Ch... 😂 jokes

[@easternyellowjacket276]

@@justdoit83388 Even Japan outsource, eh?

[@atownsen]

@@Mitch-l5u yet still works as designed despite having a part failure. Cannot say that with Chinese products. 💙🇯🇵

[@manueloliveira200]

Great stuff. thanks for the vid!

[@virginie_fabrice]

so NASA is not the only one that's good !! i like this kind of " with an open mind " videos ! so refreshing !! we will do it TOGETHER OR NEVER !! thanks ALEX !!

[@virginie_fabrice]

@bhante1345 hi !! i'm eager to see this !!!

[@TaterRogers]

Love seeing the precision and low cost but quality products and technology from Japan.

[@itsROMPERS...]

It's very basic but i still find it cool to realize that the rocks that the SLIM photographed, named, and described will likely be in the exact same spots, exact same orientation, for the next million years. That's not a unique thing about the moon, it's just that we're used to the strangely dynamic nature of the Earth.

[@AltCutTV]

Nah. Once space tourism gets going those rocks will move no matter what the signs tell people not to do.

[@itsROMPERS...]

@@AltCutTV well that's a happy vision of "space tourism"!

[@AltCutTV]

​@@itsROMPERS... IKR. I'm an optimistic sort. Reality will probably be more of a: "This moon rock says ""Killroy was here. 2035"" in laser etching." What the.. 🤔

[@itsROMPERS...]

@@AltCutTV "Kilroy" That's a deep cut!

[@3isr3g3n]

I watched it launch and crash, it's great to see the thing do its thing despite the topsy-turvy.

[@carlhannah1884]

This is one of the best thumbnails I've ever seen

[@davidvomlehn4495]

There are really two things happening in state of the art landing. First, as you mention, is terrain relative navigation, which puts you in the right place. Second, LEO'S cameras can't see fine enough details to avoid smaller boulders. So, at the end, you also do collision avoidance to slip to the side to avoid obstacles. It's so cool.

[@TheSmokeofAnubis]

The more I hear about the immense difficulties and issues that these craft always run into, it's getting increasingly harder to fathom that a few astronauts managed to get there and back on the first try.

[@playingintongues]

And so long ago. They did what we can hardly do now, using tech from 50 years ago.

[@TheSmokeofAnubis]

@@playingintongues exactly!

[@moscreefus]

A few? They sent 12 dudes on 6 missions, and even with the "failure" of Apollo 13 everyone was 100% unscathed

[@TheSmokeofAnubis]

@@moscreefus allegedly 😏🤣

[@zounds010]

You want immense? How about $300 billion. Is that immense enough? Keep in mind you're comparing to the $120 Million spent on SLIM. Or putting 450,000 people to work for a decade. That's ten times more man-hours than were spent on the Manhattan Project (ie the invention and building of the atomic bomb).

[@palantirlotr5623]

Great stuff as always, thank you!!!

[@TheMpkeaton]

Thank you. This channel is too amazing. That you are able to compile all this information, then edit animate teach and entertain is astounding. Please, for us all, continue to find ways to keep it going!!!

[@katheyjberry]

What a great simple recipe for bread pudding! I'm so glad you included the recipe for the vanilla sauce. THX

[@ThriftShopHustler]

I didn't realize the 14 Day and 14 Night situation. Crazy!

[@videolabguy]

Sue your teachers. I've known this since second grade in 1962.

[@zeikjt]

When you look at the moon and see it getting darker and lighter in waves, that's what that is. That's why it takes almost a month for each full moon

[@code066funkinbird3]

Yup

[@stevenswapp4768]

Thanks again for your work, good sir!

[@davevann9795]

3:28 The Ranger Program's craft were NOT "landers", but were designed as "impactors". The goal of the Ranger Program was to get close pictures of the moon before impact. The 2nd attempt to reach the moon did impact the moon, but without sending photos before impact. The 5th attempt to reach the moon successfully sent back photos before impact. Ranger 1 and 2, were never planned to reach the moon, but instead were planned for Earth orbit tests. Rangers 3 and 5 missed the moon. Rangers 4 and 6 impacted the moon, but failed to send photos. Rangers 7, 8, and 9 successfully sent back photos before impact.

[@bigsarge2085]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@shad0wburn3d]

I am going to be real blunt about this question. WHY are we still seeing renderings and animations and not real footage. its 2025 almost!

[@cmbaz1140]

🤔

[@Dac85]

There's literally a picture at 1:18 Don't be one of those people.

[@KaiserKai16]

I'm guessing it has to do with two factors: weight and priorities. It is easier to send one image than one video. To send a video, you'd need the power and the connection, which increases weight. Increased weight not only means more difficulty getting anything off earth, but it also costs more money, which brings to the second point. There isn't a priority. If videos were extremely necessary for scientific discovery, they'd find the budget, but why do videos when you can take pictures and get similar enough information? I think the only people who benefit from a video are those who are just fascinated with space and want to be entertained. So it's not a priority. So either we would have to find a more efficient lightweight power source or make videos of these places important to science.

[@levilam522]

Who would pay for a satellite like Google Moon...

[@teferiuwuraveler1407]

​@KaiserKai16 Why on Earth would they need to livestream it? Even if the tech would add prohibitive weight for livestreaming from the moon, which i doubt, the tech to add a small digital camera and store the info on a SD would only add a few grams of weight, including wiring into the power source. The power draw would also be insignificant.

[@ceruleanmemoir]

I dont see anyone talking about it, but that's an ingenious way to create thumbnail. I love it.

[@stephenfennell]

I'm not sure what a thumbnail is. Where do I find it? I can't see anything specially ingenious near the beginning of the video.

[@AForestDwellingSpirit]

@@stephenfennell A thumbnail is the image you see when you’re browsing videos on KZbin. They are referring to the moon superimposed over the Japanese flag and marvelling at the artistic choice to do so. I hope that answers your question!

[@stephenfennell]

@@AForestDwellingSpirit Thank you.

[@Binyamin.Tsadik]

We need satellites around the moon to give us some moon GPS capabilities.

[@Schamoo]

Also communication

[@Ilix42]

I played Lunar Lander back in the day. Your landing spot really impacts the difficulty of a successful landing.

[@mrkanemra]

"Joining the ranks of Russia" is incorrect. It should be the USSR, not Russia. Russia hasn’t successfully landed on the moon.

[@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky]

Well, Russia was literally the home state of the USSR. And it inherited what the USSR had.

[@SONNENKVLT]

​@@ContentEnjoyer-gm3kyKoroliev is the father of the Soviet space program, and he was Ukrainian. Zenith rockets were designed in Dnipro, Ukraine, many rocket engines were also designed by the same bureau

[@SunriseLAW]

Russians have no reason to land on the moon. The Russian space program handled a lot of the ISS (and other) international launches, particularly before Space X , Russia was really big in the "global launch business".

[@jamesengland7461]

​@@SONNENKVLTand Russia controlled it all. Come on.

[@KentoLeoDragon]

Funny how when the USSR did something bad it was Russia and when it did something good it was the USSR.

[@avenged277693]

I love the thumbnail for this video. Please tell whoever is responsible that it's just perfect

[@friendlyone2706]

Japan: Gave us LED lights and now precision interplanetary engineering. Thank you! Keep it up, Japan!

[@gringott12-y7m]

Have you ever wondered “When was LED lighting Invented?” Well the answer may surprise you...LEDs have been around for more than half a century! In fact, a viable working version of LED technology first came out in 1962. It was invented by 33 year old General Electric scientist Nick Holonyak Jr. Back then, GE called it “the magic one.” Really! On the back of Holonyak’s original device is inscribed: “The magic one, GaAsP."

[@dawncreison9696]

As always great video thanks

[@kristinaschewenius6615]

I think their yellow tardis is cute🤩 Go Japan!

[@wsrichardson5796]

In answer to someone's question, the Apollo 11 mission had problems... "The problems began soon after Armstrong and Aldrin began their descent on July 20, 1969. First it was trouble with communications with Earth. Then, alarm tones in the astronauts' headphones signaled something even more serious: the onboard computer, which was controlling the craft's speed and orientation, was becoming overloaded with tasks... Under the control of the computer, the lander was heading directly for a football stadium-size crater. The surrounding area was strewn with boulders, some of which were as big as cars... Armstrong took over from the computer, steering Eagle over the giant crater and the boulder field, and flew onward, hunting for safer ground... Finally, Armstrong had found a relatively smooth spot, and with just 100 feet to go he brought Eagle into a final, vertical descent... The blast of the descent rocket was kicking up moon dust, sending it rushing outward in all directions and wrapping the landscape in a fast-moving haze. Armstrong fixed his gaze on rocks sticking up through the blowing dust; using them as reference points, he guided Eagle slowly downward... Now another call from Earth: 30 seconds of fuel left before a mandatory abort. And then, from Aldrin: "contact light." A blue light on the instrument panel signaled that one of three spindly probes at the end of Eagle's landing legs had touched the surface. The craft settled onto the Sea of Tranquility so gently that neither man felt the impact. Armstrong shut down the engine-with about 20 seconds' worth of fuel remaining." --Scientific American

[@princecuddle]

I can guarantee the team who designed the lander must have thousands of hours playing kerbal space program.

[@code066funkinbird3]

Lol

[@pikaskew]

Incredible precision, technology has evolved profoundly in the past 60 years.

[@adarsh4764]

Five Super-economies competing in modern moon race. What a amazing timw to be alive.❤

[@Xeoah]

Lmao Japan and India economies suck. And China's is only good as it is cuz it never got cut down to size and as a result has billions of people.

[@mkteku]

calling countries (full of living citizens) 'economies' makes me sad

[@mkteku]

certain things (quite a lot, actually) should not be about money / profit, do you not agree?

[@mkteku]

also, the word 'race'... i bet, people would be doing these things even if we would be living in one single 'country'... actually, i am sure we would be having a Moon Base by know, if this 'race' would Not be a capitalist (meaning: secrets must me kept, because they m8ght bring profits to the keepers) one...

[@paxhumana2015]

@@mkteku , the concept of money, as well as all of its related ilk, are all designed to control humankind, and to never benefit humankind.

[@davidgrech4574]

Congratulations and good luck with your future plans 🌍

[@HeyHoHereSheGoes]

Yayyy new upload

[@oiocha5706]

Japan does a lot of interesting things in space and physics; I would love to see more videos about it!!!

[@code066funkinbird3]

And their anime pop culture

[@hollybyrd6186]

I'm sad that I'll never see us conquer space. Imagine the new technology we have in a thousand years in the future?

[@dcfromthev]

Humanity would be lucky to survive this century the way things are going, you might be one of the last generations of our species so cheer up!

[@moscreefus]

Nobody will ever see anyone conquer space, fam

[@MikeKisil]

Food for thoughts good video info ty.

[@jacob_90s]

Are the click baity titles really necessary dude? You make good videos, why sink to that level?

[@kingdodongo4126]

Exactly. Since that announcement about a “team” making the videos the quality dropped, more videos about same stuff and clickbait titles appeared. Sad

[@glokazuns4594]

Be the change in the world you wish to see. ​@@kingdodongo4126

[@adsm6464]

Is it click-bait if it describes the content accurately? Such precise landing is a game changer surely?

[@stevenmoore3480]

MONEY LOVELY MONEY

[@CmdrGamagosk]

@@adsm6464yes. Being correct about the information doesn’t change that it has been worded in a vague and compelling way.

[@HoHerm]

Great title, great video!

[@thomasjearson3193]

2026 Artemis mission to the moon? LOL. 2034 is my prediction.

[@JosBergervoet]

There could be a 2026 LunarX mission! (But probably Elon will be in jail by then...)

[@sclarin2]

@@JosBergervoet 🙄

[@AnimeSunglasses]

​@@JosBergervoet we can still hope

[@mybachhertzbaud3074]

As I was born at the beginning of the space age, I have been a bit disappointed at the rate of progress. However, 65 years later, I applaud every step forward. Bravo!🤔

[@kparker2430]

i hear you. just yesterday i was watching repeats of Space Angel on KZbin

[@NSBarnett]

"The size of a passenger vehicle" (1:51), Alex? A ferry? A commuter train? A motor-bike? A taxi? They're all vehicles which take passengers.

[@daigoro7216]

Why focus on that when, in the intro, he said that Japan did a thing. It wasn't Japan at all. It was Japan's Space Agency.

[@DKofDAH]

Was wondering what he meant by that as well.

[@mahnamahna3252]

I don't understand why so many people will use anything to describe a measurement But the measurement

[@AltCutTV]

It's probably from the back when "car sized rover" thing. But cars of course came in many more or less reasonable levels of girth even then. Just use a banana for scale.

[@mahnamahna3252]

@AltCutTV even the common Cavendish variety banana varies in size

[@moonmininghe3]

To The Moon, Now is The Time🚀🌔

[@czjmaster]

Lets Go🚀

[@chrisb5986]

Upside down. So precise.

[@HakarisInfiniteVoid]

This is absolutely amazing news thank you

[@saltynadsack2723]

It's a testament to Japanese engineering and technological brilliance. Huge W!

[@ciuzdamm]

What testament? It failed. Same as when kids don't perform, you tell them that they did a good job...

[@gamesturbator]

I noticed that you've been using the new StellarDrone tracks in your videos. Can't imagine how good his new album is going to be.

[@napoleonfeanor]

They discovered bunnies?

[@greghelton4668]

Cheese.

[@-x_i_x-3506]

This is not a mission for discovery, but is a mission to kill Chang'e once and for all

[@joshuascholar3220]

@@greghelton4668 mochi!

[@royg2840]

dust bunnies

[@FlickTakFlakAttack]

The Lunarians send their regards 🔫🐰

[@GiulianoMazzina]

I love when I click a video based on the thumbnail alone and it ends up being a new Astrum video.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

Excellent video Alex. Don't be discouraged by the ubiquitous spoiled-for-choice viewer who's daily highlight is complaining about perfectly good and accurately descriptive titles. Your content is always top drawer. Thank you, from a very satisfied irish subscriber.👍

[@prospero11]

lazy

[@Udrys999]

1:18 inadequate lighting - Hostpot in the foreground, but the hill on the background is dimmer. - Complete darkness in the upper-left corner (Maybe sensor/lens damage) I would assume the dust in the foreground and in the background would be of identical brightness.

[@MarcusKyo]

Designed to do something: Embarrassing failure. Not designed to do something: Massive success!

[@maxdomania4279]

Love the Thumbnail :D

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

ASTRONOMER: Can we see the photographs of the Moon from your... JAXA: Pay for it first!

[@noxabellus]

One of the weirdest analogies I've ever heard, love it

[@richardhadley6243]

The space race is back on, baby! 💪🏻😂💪🏻

[@adarsh4764]

Moon race

[@richardhadley6243]

@@adarsh4764 why not? 🤷🏻‍♂️😘

[@Retardah]

Never began yet baby

[@rightside345]

Apollo 11's goal was to safely land and return. While it is an interesting point of reference, Apollo 12 should have been included, which had to land within walking distance to a surveyor probe and prove humans could perform precision landings on the moon.

[@SynthOSphere]

So... If it landed 55m from the center of its 110m WIDE ellipse... (depicted here are a circle) this means it MISSED it, no? 100m wide = a radius of 50m, this means it landed about 5m outside the intended zone. Or am I reading this wrong?

[@gavinlascelles1748]

The only thing you got wrong was perhaps a typo '110m WIDE ellipse'. They did say 100m x 100m. Width & length measurements, same format of the other landing sites. Glad I wasn't the only one to catch this.

[@Undaglibenglaubengloben]

Little boy toppled but didn’t even flinch, still excelled on his mission and died fighting

[@Keith-bp1hx]

I think it's very possible to have an international moon station by 2050. If only humans could get over their love for war.

[@marrs1013]

What would they do there? The unlimited budget of the Cold War era is long gone.They have to make it commercially viable, or it's just another vanity project. Fuel production is the only obvious answer, but we won't need it until we have regular, heavy rockets going around the Solar system. And we are far from that. It is cheaper to launch two rockets from Earth, one with crew and equipment(so the ship can fly with just enough fuel reach orbit, the rest can be payload), another just a big fuel tank, to refuel the crewed vessel to have enough fuel to get there and back. The emptied tanker returns, the other one goes to destination.

[@Alien_Bones]

War?!... War never changes...

[@Thing.Appreciator]

War isn't what's holding back space travel, we've got a few wars right now and space travel is better than ever. What holds it back is economics and political will.

[@RandomPerson-zl6uz]

Steel production and tourism are the other two main aspects + large ship building but that won’t be for a long time. General metal mining from the regolith will also be viable.

[@PeterQuentercrimsonbamboo]

Well… not ‘humans’ in the general term, but rather a handful few self-decreed overlord-authoritarian wannabeKingRulers with delusions of Grandeur and the arrogance and psychopathy to pursue them over all morals and ethics !

[@laughs333]

Some of their engineering/technology has been historically advanced kudos Japan ❤😊

[@eSKAone-]

A sniper can't steer his bullet after its ballistic takeoff. It's more like a car traveling from UK to the grain of rice.

[@AnonNopleb]

No, it's more like lightly tapping a grain of hail with a plane on remote control with minimum 1.3 s signal latency in both directions. Good luck trying that one

[@nottiification]

IKR, I drove all the way across the country to grammas house, and managed to park right in her driveway on the first try! Scientists are still baffled by my accuracy. Its like throwing a dart across 2 Rhode Islands and hitting an elephant in a football field.

[@72marshflower15]

@@nottiification crabby patty!!

[@raiko3412]

Depends on what game you are playing.

[@kevin-e5h5t]

"Catching up with the Moon" is a arduous task. Sitting in my back yard at night, I see something that is moving a 3,000 Kilometers per hour, on a Billion Kilometer orbit. The Apollo missions to the Moon had to hover (with accounted for, but limited fuel) above the surface for up to 20 minutes, until the astronauts were comfortable about where to land. Rocky terrain was a hazard.

[@zounds010]

The Apollo LM had enough fuel to hover for 60 seconds, not 20 minutes.

[@Motodosed]

The size of a passenger vechicle is a double decker bus...so why use inaccurate descriptions. People who watch this are detail oriented!.

[@philbert006]

My Honda Civic will comfortably hold 4 passengers, so it's also a passenger vehicle. And about a quarter the size. And a 777 will hold several hundred passengers, and is a lot bigger. But wait, a cruise ship will hold several thousand passengers! And it's a whole hell of a lot bigger than anything ever thrown at the moon! It's just a statement to give you the idea that it's bigger than an Amazon box. Anyone that is detail oriented can look up the size specs, lay out a measuring tape, and see exactly how big it is, and can do that in less time than it takes to type a comment. Or walk outside and look at the building you are occupying and make a suitable comparison. All you are saying is that you are unsatisfied with his comparison, yet can't be bothered to look around you and make a mentally exhausting comparison based on whatever you can see, which is an almost zero effort. Or for barely more effort, you could simply pace out the size, lay any object on the perimeter points, and see the size for yourself. So, basically all you are saying is you are not detail oriented at all, or that it isn't important enough for you to just do one of the exercises I mention, all of which you could have done while still watching the video. Yet you're giving Alex grief for his method of comparison. What a shame.

[@poruatokin]

It's to appease yanks who have no idea how big something is unless it is described in football fields or freedom units.

[@LordFalconsword]

Slim really was the plucky little lander that could.

[@LSF17]

I thought they were putting like actual snipers on the moon 😭

[@Alien_Bones]

How dumb are we, mate?!

[@AltCutTV]

Yes, but they are of course only self defensive snipers. So don't worry about it.

[@LSF17]

@@Alien_Bones idk you go first! jkjk

[@extropian314]

Small correction im the graphic at 6:15: Since the ellipse is 100m across, "55 from center" lay *just outside* the ellipse.

[@Just-Fauna]

We're a couple years out from H.G Wells 'The Time Traveller'. I Swear if we blow up the moon...

[@12pentaborane]

Wait did we blow up the moon in the book? I thought that was just the movie.

[@Just-Fauna]

@@12pentaborane I'll read it again. I know it got blown up. As long as its not in RL, cool!

[@spencerhardy8667]

We definitely have Eloi being preyed upon by Morlocks right now.

[@LanierHarper]

Thank you

[@00shivani]

I am irritated by @jacob_90s comment about this being a click bait video. I’ve been on the internet since I was 9 years old, and thus, have witnessed, and many times even fallen for, countless clickbait videos, content, and articles. So I know what it’s like. It upsets me that the “clickbait” that haters choose to lash out on, is a video from a sincere, high-effort, and positively educational channel like Astrum. I could name 15 different channels where people can comment their rants about clickbait. This is not one of them. So here it is: 1) this title is not clickbait. Astrum explained why Japan’s mission was game changing right at the beginning, by explaining just how precise it was for the first time in history. What were You expecting? Japan found Aliens or something? Nowhere in the thumbnail or title does he mislead anyone, like some other space channels do by literally adding an image of a dark alien figure with a red circle around it and giant red arrow. Out of all the channels to call out, you choose this one, which makes me feel icky about you. If you think his title is misleading, you lack perspective and a sense of wonder. Space missions are not a sci fi movie. 2) don’t act like you don’t understand the name of the game. KZbin is peoples’ careers, and intriguing titles are a part of it. If you had a channel, you would literally try to do the same thing. If you take video titles so literally, that is on you. I watch Markie’s TikTok drama summaries. Every video is “This Viral Video Ruined Her Career!” Or something like that. I never shame him for it, and I know the video will just be a regular tea spill, nothing crazy. But I respect that Markie must attract new viewers, and dramatization has ALWAYS been the name of the media game since the beginning of time. Hence why they call it: Drama. Stop acting so above it. 3) people saying they are justified in coming at Astrum because they are fatigued by clickbait “in general:” no, no that’s not how it works. It is so ridiculous to attack an innocent channel because you’re upset about the internet as a whole, media as a whole. No, you are not justified. And if you are so “Fatigued” get off the internet- because clickbait is not going away. If you have specific channels you don’t like, unsubscribe from them. 4) Finally, there’s others who are mad because he got a Team, and apparently somehow that caused the quality to go down? What in the mental mind games are you on about? I’ve been watching Astrum for years, and I have witnessed ZERO downgrade in quality. Yall sound like haters who don’t like peoples professional growth. Yall sound like haters who only support bands until they go “mainstream” because you think you’re too cool for that. At the end of the day, being cool = sticking with those you support. I’m glad Astrum has help, if that’s the case, because this is a tough job. People have become too spoiled by all the content available on the internet. This requires hard work and he deserves a team. Idk why ppl want others to suffer just for them. Yall are weird for that. On this app, I have seen a mix of channels. Some that are true professionals, serious about their subject and craft, others are just for fun, and some are straight up evil clickbait that poses an actual THREAT, usually to children and impressionable people. Yall chose to come at someone who is in my list of “professional and educated”?? I grew up on NOVA science tapes. I WISH I had this channel growing up. Don’t point your criticisms at actually good channels. I will end by saying: Yall would literally do the exact same thing, if not worse if you were in his shoes. I’ve seen creators start off normal regular people. Then start going crazy just for the sake of numbers. Astrum is not that.

[@markigirl2757]

People seem to not have understand what it’s like to get viewers and it’s a fun title people can click and stay if they find the subject fascinating. If not they can always click away I never understood why people get so upset about a title it seems superficial to me but eh it’s the internet! Thanks for your long comment tho

[@MindatEase-p6c]

Amazing! ❤

[@shipmcgree6367]

That grain of rice description 👌🏻

[@TheMan-WithNoName]

A passenger vehicle is a rubbish comparison when talking about size Alex. That can range from a rickshaw to a jumbo jet.

[@BierBart12]

I assumed they meant a sedan car, probably the most common passenger vehicle

[@darkadonnis]

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

[@TheMan-WithNoName]

@@BierBart12 yes I know he meant a car, my point is he should have just said car. I don't know who's writing his scripts now but they're noticeably worse than the early days when you could hear the passion for the subject matter in his voice.

[@gailhitson7340]

Well done, Japan! Your little "Sniper" took big steps forward for solar system exploration by man! Impressive....

[@harveyrichard2007]

Starting with Apollo 12, NASA could do pinpoint landings routinely. Not sure the difference with Japan's "feat"?

[@zounds010]

NASA did pinpoint landings with a human in the loop. Remember Apollo 11, where the selected landing point turned out to be full of boulders. The astronauts were able to correct that. Unmanned landers, in contrast have landed blindly. The Surveyors only had an altimeter to help them land. NASA got lucky, with 5 missions making successful landings. Only recently has it become possible to give umanned landers the ability to avoid landing on a boulder or in a crater.

[@robertthomas5906]

That and we're 50+ years later. The range was 18 KM for Apollo, 6 KM for the Chinese spacecraft. This one did it in .1KM. I'm familiar with this stuff. To me this is a - WOW. Great job Japan! Even though I expect things to be far more precise than 50 years ago I think this is great. It sucks that it had a failure and flipped over. Work so hard for years and then it doesn't work out. I've been there.