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New Evidence: Chinese Rocket And Secret Payload Caused Double Crater on The Moon (www.sciencealert.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Payload was a giant hole confirmed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

What can you add to the moon to make it lighter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hey guys, get a load of this hole.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, how much mass would a manned mission have?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As amusing as the idea is, I doubt China would launch a manned mission and not tell anyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they wanted to announce it after a successful landing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So it's like a Vladimir Ilyushin kind of thing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I would not rule it out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

China: "should we tell anyone that we crashed? No no, it was a secret payload that touched down!"