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Behold, the art piece that cause the US Lunar lander to topple over this week -
> The art piece is by Jeff Koons and it consists of 125 steel balls. Each ball has the name of an important person in history or literature. You can't make this shit up. It's pure clown world. We are jeopardizing scientific discoveries by shifting our focus to performative virtue signalling. This screw-up will lie on the surface of the moon for the next one billion years as a testament to our folly. At least extra-terrestrial civilizations that visit the moon in the eons to come will be able to have a chuckle at our expense.
> Ummmm. 2.7 lbs = 1.244699 kilo. Divided by 125 = 0.0098 kilo per ball, 9.8 grams. Density of steel is about 7.8 grams per cubic centimeter, so 9.8/7.8 implies about 1.25 cubic centimeters per ball which would give a diameter of around 1.3 centimeters. The balls in OP's pic sure look bigger than that. the nuts securing it to the side of the lander look bigger than that. Seems to me like you had a lot of unaccounted for momentum coming down, that got turned into torque. But what do I know, I'm just an unemployed White guy with physics and math degrees doing this off the top of my head. If I was trans with a gender studies degree I could maybe give you a better answer and tell you the Russians did it.
> The art piece is by Jeff Koons and it consists of 125 steel balls. Each ball has the name of an important person in history or literature. You can't make this shit up. It's pure clown world. We are jeopardizing scientific discoveries by shifting our focus to performative virtue signalling. This screw-up will lie on the surface of the moon for the next one billion years as a testament to our folly. At least extra-terrestrial civilizations that visit the moon in the eons to come will be able to have a chuckle at our expense.
> Ummmm. 2.7 lbs = 1.244699 kilo. Divided by 125 = 0.0098 kilo per ball, 9.8 grams. Density of steel is about 7.8 grams per cubic centimeter, so 9.8/7.8 implies about 1.25 cubic centimeters per ball which would give a diameter of around 1.3 centimeters. The balls in OP's pic sure look bigger than that. the nuts securing it to the side of the lander look bigger than that. Seems to me like you had a lot of unaccounted for momentum coming down, that got turned into torque. But what do I know, I'm just an unemployed White guy with physics and math degrees doing this off the top of my head. If I was trans with a gender studies degree I could maybe give you a better answer and tell you the Russians did it.