Striking contrast between the sober, understated "bureaucratic heroism" vibe of the ISRO mission control livestream vs. the breathless cheesiness of the PR circus outside being covered by TV reporters asking young schoolkids tedious questions (and getting tedious answers)
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All these women look like my mom did 30 years ago. The cognitive dissonance is really amusing. I can't shake the feeling of "my mom and her friends are running a space mission"
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Waiting for the telemetry to resume. Moment of truth. That's the one thing you can't script with a PR circus.
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At this point, I'm giving this a 25% chance of being recoverable
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Well, lander comms lost at 2.1km altitude, and they don't sound hopeful. Descent path seemed to deviate to be more vertical towards end, so I'm guessing crash not comms failure. Modi delivering a sort of encouraging eulogy. RIP Vikram I guess. It had an exciting 15 minute life.
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