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Noam Chomsky |
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In early 2019, China’s robotic rover Yutu 2 has touched down the dirt ground of the 115-mile wide von Kármán Crater of the moon. As of January 2022, it has traveled a distance of more than 1 km along the Moon’s surface.
Tianwen-1 was launched to Mars in the summer of 2020, and completed the three-stage mission of orbiting, descending, and patroling. Its Mars rover Zhurong has so far traveled nearly 2 km on Mars surfae. Tianwen-2 is also scheduled to lift off in 2025. In case we run into aliens, do we know how to communicate with “them”?
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