Chinese probe Yutu 2 dicovered.. we dont know yet

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[doriel]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbk3m/lunar-rover-moon-cube-china

Chinese moon rover Yutu 2 captured something very interesting on the moon on the 3rd December. Now its on its way to know what it really is.

On the internet, there are already some estimates, what it could be. the most “boring” estimate is peice of rock.

More playfull gesses are:
Borgs’ cube
The package box from Yutu itself
Elevator into the hollow moon
Monolith from ACClarke’s oddysey
Quagaars maybe?

My personal tip is walking tank AT-AT from the starwars. Thats why it takes so long to reachh it, because its goes away from the rover 😀

Scientists say, that the journey towards this mysterious object is slow, because threr are lot of obstacles on the way.

Its not the first time, we (humans) photographed such mystery. Remember the face on the Mars?

Or the alien on the moon? Probably just coincidence of craters

Very probably, we will find out, that its just a piece of rock.. But who knows? And why it takes so long? Why they do not make photograph now, when they must be much closer? 🙂

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Seeing meaningful patterns (particularly faces) where nothing meaningful actually exists is called Pareidolia

My guess on the moon cube would be: something boringly prosaic, probably “rock”

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Yes, that is how brains work, brain is searching for patterns he knows. Typical example could be clouds, also scarecrows who prove that animal brain has the same capabilities as ours. Star constellations maybe too.

I like the mystery in it, that until we reach the rock, it could be anything! Its a schroedinger rock! 🙂

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doriel wrote:

Its a schroedinger rock!

Oh yeah, I very much like that label

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I think it is a large, rectangular, black, vertically standing slab, with some weird music  sounding in the rover’s cellphone.

Yep, I am pretty sure that’s it.

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? says:

could it be the lunar SpaceForce in a box?

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I’ve always wondered if Adobe sold Photoshop in China.

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ClearThunder: For all I know, Adobe might make Photoshop in China … Jut saying.

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5 to 10 minutes after taking this picture, Yutu 2 probably blew that rock to smithereens.  It was a test.

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If it IS something else it will not be the Chinese telling us.

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