Their density makes them ring like a bell, if suspended by a wire through the center. Good wind chimes.
Their density makes them ring like a bell, if suspended by a wire through the center. Good wind chimes.
So much opportunity for science! Does it still work? Is it accurate? Do the positions of the celestial bodies it shows correspond exactly with where they should have been 1,000 years ago? Is there anything it shows that the manufacturer of that time should not have known, and if so, does that indicate they had observational methods we didn’t previously know they had?
I may have missed it, but the article didn’t say how it was determined that the sample contained only moon material and not ejecta from any of the millions of meteors which have struck the moon.
Anyone have a mirror? Archive.today seems to be on the fritz…
Solution, temporary or not, using Firefox:
Go into Settings > Privacy & Security > DNS over HTTPS.
Next to “Firefox won’t use secure DNS on these sites”, click the Manage Exceptions button
Add three entries: archive.is, archive.ph, archive.today
Important: The site (and the Archive Page extension, which I use) will continue to fail until you close the Settings tab you opened to perform these steps.
copypasta: "Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is "named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older.
Everyone’s first question: “How do I disable this?”
Yeah but it STILL landed right-side up. A fine example for moon landers everywhere.