Japanese Spacecraft Found Concrete Block on Asteroid.

a reply to: FossilLin

Odd that those photos don't appear on any of JAXA's pages. A lot of people in the twitter feed, and elsewhere, are suggesting those photos are not from the Minerva probes.

And now INSTAGRAM IS DOWN!!! OMG run!!!! The aliens are coming!!! There is going to be a BIG KABOOOM!!!!!

The gradual construction of an asteroid, or any body in space, will produce infinitely random shapes and sizes of debris on said body because the gradual construction is powered by 'impact'. As in, rocks smashing into one another. Hard.

You're gonna get square shapes, you're gonna get straight lines. It's inevitable. I've most definitely seen straight lines and square shapes in rock debris down nearly every single river bed I've ever seen in my life. So has everyone else.

Regardless. There's two robots flipping around on a f***en asteroid taking videos and sending the footage back to us.

How cool is this s**t?

Asteroid Ryugu Has a Sedimentary Rock. Its sedimentary layers are shown clearly at www.flickr.com...

a reply to: FossilLin

According to...whom?
That seems to source...you.

Are you a geologist?

a reply to: OneBigMonkeyToo

I am not really sure, but the author of the tweet sent tweets to: @BadAstronomer @elakdawalla @japantimes @Space_Station @NASA @NASASolarSystem

Those are BIG NAMES in astronomy. Japan Times is a famous newspaper.

originally posted by: FossilLin
a reply to: OneBigMonkeyToo

The photos cannot be fakes, because the author of the tweet sent the tweet to: @BadAstronomer @elakdawalla @japantimes @Space_Station @NASA @NASASolarSystem

Those are BIG NAMES in astronomy.

Because joe blow can’t tweet things to anyone right?🤔🙄🙄

a reply to: BigDave-AR
Um. The author of the tweet is the author of this thread.


Coincidence?

originally posted by: FossilLin
a reply to: OneBigMonkeyToo

I am not really sure, but the author of the tweet sent tweets to: @BadAstronomer @elakdawalla @japantimes @Space_Station @NASA @NASASolarSystem

Those are BIG NAMES in astronomy. Japan Times is a famous newspaper.

I email NASA all the time, does't make me an astronaut.

originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: BigDave-AR
Um. The author of the tweet is the author of this thread.


Coincidence?

Is it really? Jesus the echo chamber is strong with dude.

Lander "MASCOT" landed safely on Asteroid Ryugu:
www.dlr.de...#/gallery/32227

A short video about the whole mission:
www.youtube.com...

There is no reason to suspect that photos in twitter.com...
aren't from Minerva (Rover 1A).

a reply to: FossilLin

Apart from the fact that they do not seem to exist outside that Twitter post and the person posting has not provided a source, despite many requests.

originally posted by: OneBigMonkeyToo
a reply to: FossilLin

Odd that those photos don't appear on any of JAXA's pages. A lot of people in the twitter feed, and elsewhere, are suggesting those photos are not from the Minerva probes.

Yeah, those can't be real. They're not even taken with the same kind of camera / lens. Somebody must have gone in their back yard and photographed a mud pile.

a reply to: Blue Shift

I am growing suspicious of the photos.
Wikipedia article on the cameras of MINERVA-II:
en.wikipedia.org...-II

Those twitter pics are so clearly fake.

The following photo seems to show a Martian-made square chip on asteroid Ryugu:
www.flickr.com...

a reply to: wildespace

Yes. I was wrong. Those photos have too high resolution, higher than the highest resolution photo claimed by the Japanese officials.

-sigh-

Disappointed.

If you can find a rock where it looks like something if you squint your eyes or cock your head sideways...

You should be able to find an unquestionable find.
Your goal should be to find something that 99.99% won't question as optical illusion or misidentification.

Please raise your bar for ringing the cowbell. Thanks.

I'm not saying you're doing something dumb or that you're crazy. I'm just saying, step it up. I try to do the same with my finds. If I catch too much criticism, I look for a more clear find. I don't take it negatively, I try to improve my eagle eye and find something even better.

Try to get your finds better and better, and you can judge by the amount of criticism the finds get. Try to get less and less criticism. Eventually, every find you post, will have some amount of respect or supporters.