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[hetalia-club]

Hetalia Olympics: 8-8-2024

Medal Events Only:

[beardedmrbean]

TOKYO -- A Japanese spacecraft touched down on the moon early Saturday, making Japan the fifth country to reach the lunar surface. But officials said they still needed to analyze the pinpoint accuracy of the landing.

Hitoshi Kuninaka, head of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, said they believe that rovers were launched and data were being transmitted back to Earth. But there could an issue with the power supply.

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed at about 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time on Saturday (1520 GMT Friday). Japan follows the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India in reaching the moon.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

Japan’s spacecraft arrived on the surface of the moon early Saturday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the landing was a success, because the Japanese space agency said it was still “checking its status.”

More details about the spacecraft, which is carrying no astronauts, would be given at a news conference, officials said. If the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, landed successfully, Japan would become the fifth country to accomplish the feat after the United States, the Soviet Union, China and India.

SLIM came down onto the lunar surface at around 12:20 a.m. Tokyo time Saturday (1520 GMT Friday).

As the spacecraft descended, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's mission control said that everything was going as planned and later said that SLIM was on the lunar surface. But there was no mention of whether the landing was successful.

Mission control kept repeating that it was “checking its status" and that more information would be given at a news conference. It wasn't immediately clear when the news conference would start.

SLIM, nicknamed "the Moon Sniper," started its descent at midnight Saturday, and within 15 minutes it was down to about 10 kilometers (six miles) above the lunar surface, according to the space agency, which is known as JAXA.

At an altitude of five kilometers (three miles), the lander was in a vertical descent mode, then at 50 meters (165 feet) above the surface, SLIM was supposed to make a parallel movement to find a safe landing spot, JAXA said.

About a half-hour after its presumed landing, JAXA said that it was still checking the status of the lander.

SLIM, which was aiming to hit a very small target, is a lightweight spacecraft about the size of a passenger vehicle. It was using “pinpoint landing” technology that promises far greater control than any previous moon landing.

While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 kilometers (six miles) wide, SLIM was aiming at a target of just 100 meters (330 feet).

The project was the fruit of two decades of work on precision technology by JAXA.

The mission's main goal is to test new landing technology that would allow moon missions to land “where we want to, rather than where it is easy to land,” JAXA has said. If the landing was a success, the spacecraft will seek clues about the origin of the moon, including analyzing minerals with a special camera.

The SLIM, equipped with a pad to cushion impact, was aiming to land near the Shioli crater, near a region covered in volcanic rock.

The closely watched mission came only 10 days after a moon mission by a U.S. private company failed when the spacecraft developed a fuel leak hours after the launch.

SLIM was launched on a Mitsubishi Heavy H2A rocket in September. It initially orbited Earth and entered lunar orbit on Dec. 25.

Japan hopes a success will help regain confidence for its space technology after a number of failures. A spacecraft designed by a Japanese company crashed during a lunar landing attempt in April, and a new flagship rocket failed its debut launch in March.

JAXA has a track record with difficult landings. Its Hayabusa2 spacecraft, launched in 2014, touched down twice on the 900-meter-long (3,000-foot-long) asteroid Ryugu, collecting samples that were returned to Earth.

Experts say a success of SLIM's pinpoint landing, especially on the moon, would raise Japan's profile in the global space technology race.

Takeshi Tsuchiya, aeronautics professor at the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, said it was important to confirm the accuracy of landing on a targeted area for the future of moon explorations.

“It is necessary to show the world that Japan has the appropriate technology in order to be able to properly assert Japan's position in lunar development,” he said. The moon is important from the perspective of explorations of resources, and it can also be used as a base to go to other planets, like Mars, he said.

SLIM is carrying two small autonomous probes — lunar excursion vehicles LEV-1 and LEV-2, which will be released just before landing.

LEV-1, equipped with an antenna and a camera, is tasked with recording SLIM's landing. LEV-2, is a ball-shaped rover equipped with two cameras, developed by JAXA together with Sony, toymaker Tomy and Doshisha University.

JAXA will broadcast a livestream of the landing, while space fans will gather to watch the historic moment on a big screen at the agency's Sagamihara campus southwest of Tokyo.

[the-eyespy]

🌏🌍🌎 You know when you have the USA, NATO, Russia, and China united against you, you're cooked.

Is there any conflict or potential brewing conflict where you can potentially see the United States, Russia, and China cooperating?

[sparksinthenight]

Across only 5 countries, 55 million people faced severe and deadly hunger last year, due to the climate crisis.

[doueverwonder]

Heam and I were discussing giving Zea a show where she just observes other nations like she's filming nature documentaries; when she gets to India and China's episode involves things such as

playing bluff and swearing at each other in sanskrit

arguing over the right way to prepare tea but agreeing how Zea does it Is Wrong

"when were you born, Eleanor?" "1840's" "oh my gosh INFANT"

"When I was a kid I didn't have fancy toys, I had a stick" "okay grandpa, you also didn't have half the domesticated animals"

they keep trying to give her Bits of Wisdom and she will not retain any of it

she asks them 3 separate times if they remember the wheel being invented. They keep avoiding the question.

lovely little segment called "Tai Chi vs. Yoga (i'm bad at both!!)"

basically she ends up interviewing them instead bc they're a little too boring to just Observe Them

Eli standing there with her little microphone "These two are proof dinosaurs once roamed the earth"

solid 30 min of complaining about English ppl

"are u guys dating" "no more questions" "i'll take that as 'its complicated'" "no" "too late"

"I spent the first three hours here bored out of my mind, and i'm leaving with two new great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, see you next week :)"

[okaywhatabouthades]

Everybody boycott kfc, McDonalds, Hardee's, starbucks, coke, Pepsi, pringles, Maggie etc.

Search brands standing with Israel and boycott them.

You actions matter! You matter!

[ladyimaginarium]

from mikjikj-mnikuk/turtle island to inuit nunangat to kanata to kalaallit nunaat to anahuac to abya yala to alkebulan to the levant to moananuiākea to sápmi to éire to bhārata to zhōngguó to nihon to aynu mosir to siberia to niugini to nusantara to bandaiyan to aotearoa, from coast to coast to coast to coast, from sea to sea to sea to sea, none of us are free until all of us — men, women, enben, children, queer people, disabled & neurodivergent people, elders, animals and the land and the sea and the sky — are free!!!!

[nuagederose]

following up to my original post for “vostok” (the antarctic mermaid and the pinned post—the dtiys for that goes all the way to may 1, too!), i give you my prompts for mermay around the world. i tried to get all the continents—it’s tricky here with the states because we’re such a melting pot of cultures and dialects, so i picked two of the cities i can readily represent through art (i was going to use new orleans or nashville but i’m slightly more drawn to vegas and hawai’i).

this is inspired by three things:

planetary coalition (the obvious one).

some time ago, i was looking into art of the middle east, namely israel and iran (before the revolution of 1979, of course) and feeling enamored by it all.

the third thing that inspired it was thinking about east asian art and how i’ve always been drawn to it. i don’t know how my mind jumped to it but i thought about angkor wat and block paintings of temples in southeast asia, and my mind being the rocket it is went from there.

***i also don’t want to hear any objections to tel aviv and kiev being on here. if you don’t like it, do your own or use someone else’s list.

i’m dropping these now to give plenty of time to study the art and culture of each city. i’d rather let people be influenced and inspired than appropriate 😉

Kingston (Jamaica) 🇯🇲

Las Vegas (United States) 🇺🇸

Mexico City (Mexico) 🇲🇽

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) 🇧🇷

Santiago (Chile) 🇨🇱

Honolulu (United States) 🇺🇸

Manila (Philippines) 🇵🇭

Tokyo (Japan) 🇯🇵

Shanghai (China) 🇨🇳

Phnom Penh (Cambodia) 🇰🇭

Auckland (New Zealand) 🇳🇿

Sydney (Australia) 🇦🇺

Suva (Fiji) 🇫🇯

New Delhi (India) 🇮🇳

Kathmandu (Nepal) 🇳🇵

Istanbul (Turkey) 🇹🇷

Tel Aviv (Israel) 🇮🇱

Cairo (Egypt) 🇪🇬

Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast) 🇨🇮

Freetown (Liberia) 🇱🇷

Fez (Morocco) 🇲🇦

Porto (Portugal) 🇵🇹

Monte Carlo (Monaco/the French Riviera) 🇲🇨

Geneva (Switzerland) 🇨🇭

Athens (Greece) 🇬🇷

Kiev (Ukraine) 🇺🇦

Prague (the Czech Republic) 🇨🇿

Brussels (Belgium) 🇧🇪

Helsinki (Finland) 🇫🇮

Vilnius (Lithuania) 🇱🇹

Dublin (Ireland) 🇮🇪

[charring58]

The continent of Africa covers nearly 12 million square miles (31 million sq km). How big is that, you wonder? It's BIG! Africa could hold the land occupied by China, India, Europe, Argentina, New Zealand and the continental United States-with room to spare!

[graddingeducationalconsultant]

Top Study Abroad Destinations for 2025

Studying abroad can change your life. You get to experience different cultures, see the world from a new perspective, and learn skills that will stay with you forever. As we look towards 2025, some places stand out for their great education, rich cultures, and opportunities for growth.

[hetalia-club]

Hetalia Olympics 7-30-2024

Medal Events Only:

Congrats to Italy for getting their first team Gymnastics medal in 92 years! An Underdog story for sure considering they were not expected to get podium and then they end up getting silver. The three to watch were America, Brazil and China. It was so cute watching them jump up and down with the American team. I assume Brazil didn’t go party with them over there because they were expected to sweep silver or even gold

[head-post]

Turkey, China, India have fastest 10-year climbing economies, WIPO says

Switzerland, Sweden, the US, Singapore and the UK are the world’s most innovative economies, while China, Turkey, India, Vietnam and the Philippines are the fastest “decadal climbers,” the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) said on Thursday.

Daren Tang, the group’s head, told reporters at an online press conference that its Global Innovation Index 2024 “shows a softening in venture capital activity, R&D financing and other investment indicators.” Tang said:

“In 2023, we saw a decline in R&D expenditures, a reduction in scientific publications, and a scaling back of venture capital investments to pre-pandemic levels. However, technological progress remained strong in 2023, particularly in health-related fields like genome sequencing, as well as in computing power and electric batteries.”

On Turkey, the report said it “continues to make progress, climbing two places” in the innovation index. It also added:

“It also takes the 3rd position among the upper middle-income group. Türkiye stands out in various areas: it ranks 1st globally in trademarks and industrial designs, and 9th in intangible asset intensity – all showing an improvement this year.”

The 17th edition of the index, according to WIPO, is a global benchmarking resource that reflects global innovation trends and guides governments, business leaders and other organisations in unleashing human ingenuity to improve lives and tackle challenges such as climate change.

According to the organisation, the 2024 index shows a significant softening of leading indicators of future innovation activity, including a pullback from the explosive growth in innovation investment between 2020 and 2022.

There is a rise in interest rates, a fall in venture capital funding of around 40 per cent in 2023, lower growth in research and development spending, and a fall in international patent applications and scientific publications.

Read more HERE

[pastacat48]

tried to list all Hetalia characters outside of Europe and honestly i kinda gave up but take it or leave it

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers produced by Capcom and originally released as an arcade game in 1993.

[magnoliamyrrh]

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