Great thread, thanks to jaish and everyone else.

As you would know, this has been an unprecedentedly (to me) emotional set of events for many Indians and a lot many others as well. It is amazing how this is bringing so many peoples together, at least a little in the same vein as 50 years ago.

While I understand the huge odds stacked against total success of this mission, there is always a hope that ISRO made very little mistakes and will be vindicated even further.

I wonder why ISRO has not yet published any more images from the orbiter. Also, I didn't hear anyone mentioning hopes of seeing the landing site through the orbiter's camera. Any idea why? Maybe I am not aware of the typical delay between acquiring and publishing the images.

I have a very likely stupid thought; given the high stakes as detailed in the most recent posts here, is it at all even remotely possible that China has sabotaged either or both of Beresheet and Chandrayaan-2 ? As I said I know this might not make any sense at all but still felt it was worth asking.

(edit) I say China because apparently they are secretive and they already have their Chang'e roving around, so they are easy to suspect. It might be any other country.

avec le touch de la dramatique (a la l'inspecteur)







sorry, i know it's a serious topic but at this midnight hour it had this effect on me.

suddenly that last bit sounds the saddest part to me though I might intellectually (or otherwise) not be quite there yet to be able to appreciate it enough.

I mean the fact that we might never know everything before we die, is it the saddest part of our lives? I feel like drawing a truth-ish table and rate each case for how sad it would be. Horizontally, we either know everything there is or we don't. Vertically, we remember this fact after we die or we don't. How do the 4 cases rate in sadness?

Sorry if I'm rambling too much.

Thanks for the reply. It warrants some honesty from me, which I discovered an atom of in some dark corner albeit after a while.

When I started typing the question, it was quite a bit like "yeah, right, do you really believe that?". Then I realized, I do actually want to ask you how you got there, not just make a sneaky comment. Hence the wording (believe me, by my standards, it is good :) ).

I am biased against spiritualism, new age and such things, so I might not look up that stuff in a hurry. On the other hand, I might.

(butch?) please. what's not easy is reminding yourself every time that you're supposedly ugly. that sure is hard work.



that's just photography. don't miscredit.

;)

:D

Never actually seen a stripper.



i do be.


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