Strange cube structure spotted on the Moon

[Signal 11]

It's just a rock on a crater rim north of the rover's last night parking location [...] The rock is just visible in imagery snapped by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [...] Chinese media are very eager to find all sorts of strange things on the moon. We tend to think they are all tightly controlled and just repeat the party line, but there is a ton of stuff spinning every news item into a sensational headline [...] all adding up to nothing more than clickbait.

'Mystery Hut' spotted on the moon by Chinese rover is just a rock, scientist says

No, it's not evidence of intelligent aliens.

www.space.com

 

[Aladdin]

This definitely looks like a perfect cube that aliens put there, and not simply a boulder:

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It looks like someone bent over and mooning...

 

[8ball]

Clangers.

 

[Supine]

Where is moon base man when you need him. Come back!

 

[MickiQ]

Is it a jet black monolith with proportions of 1x4x9 ?

 

[8ball]

Is it a jet black monolith with proportions of 1x4x9 ?

Well, it’s covered in moon dust right now so hard to say. I don’t know whether the rover has a feather duster attachment.

 

[MickiQ]

Clangers.

I for one welcome our little pink overlords

 

[T & P]

As a semi-serious question, how come it’s going to take two or three months for the probe to reach the alien command post boulder if they estimate it’s just 80 metres away? Does the thing only work if its solar panels are being hit by direct sunlight?

 

[WouldBe]

It's jeff bezos's residence for tax purposes.

It's Elon Musk starting his moonbase with a garden shed.

 

[T & P]

That’s what they want you to think

 

[Steel Icarus]

No "deffo aliens" meme guy yet

 

[T & P]

Or Moon Nazis.

 

[8ball]

Or Moon Nazis.

Oh ffs. That’s going to be it, isn’t it?

 

[T & P]

Oh ffs. That’s going to be it, isn’t it?

When you think about it, at ground level and fully straight on, the end bit of any of the arms of a swastika-shaped building would look just like a cube to a distant observer…

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

I reckon it's Elvis's burial tomb.

 

[bluescreen]

Lol, the China National Space Administration clickbaiting us.
Srsly, it reminded me of a trollposter a little while back insisting they'd spotted glass domes on the moon.

 

[Balbi]

It's the successful Soviet moon landing site.

It's also the unsuccessful Soviet getting back from the moon site.

 

[krtek a houby]

Surely it's...

 

[Supine]

I reckon it’s an elaborate advert for Tesla

 

[Numbers]

Surely it's...

Bangface Moon Rave

 

[Numbers]

fucking hell, go over and have a look, it's only over there you lazy scientist bastards

Who goes first tho'

 

[Puddy_Tat]

big shed where they keep the spare glass domes

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

fucking hell, go over and have a look, it's only over there you lazy scientist bastards

It is 260 feet away and will take “a few months” for the rover to get there. Is it sponsored by Southern Rail?

 

[NoXion]

I'm calling it.

One day, we will something artificial on the Moon...

... and it will turn out to be a spent stage from a previous space mission sent from Earth.

 

[tim]

Borg?

Yes, extraterrestrial underpants warehouse.

 

[Signal 11]

from Andrew Jones on twitter

Oh, this is amazing. Close to tears. Ourspace has published an update on the "mystery hut" and it's so underwhelming it's brilliant. It's just a small rock on a crater rim that they're now calling "jade rabbit" for its appearance. Source: 穿越1000米来看你，大家关注的小房子来了 『玉兔二号驾驶日记』（29）

 

[platinumsage]

Wow, didn't see that coming. It's not like the only type of object on the moon is "rock" and that there are too many of them to be counted.

 

[keybored]

And I was so sure it was gonna be another Tesco Express.

 

[Yossarian]

from Andrew Jones on twitter

"You can clearly see the moon farmer emerging from his moon hut to tend to his moon crops, with the moon barn at the right of the image," according to a China National Space Administration scientist who grew up poor in Guizhou Province with only rocks for toys.

 

[existentialist]

No glass domes, I note