Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel), by releasing an impactor into the comet. At 05:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the Impactor successfully collided with the comet’s nucleus. The impact excavated debris from the interior of the nucleus, forming an impact crater. Photographs taken by the spacecraft showed the comet to be more dusty and less icy than had been expected. The impact generated an unexpectedly large and bright dust cloud, obscuring the view of the impact crater.
Previous space missions to comets, such as Giotto, Deep Space 1, and Stardust, were fly-by missions. These missions were able to photograph and examine only the surfaces of cometary nuclei, and even then from considerable distances. The Deep Impact mission was the first to eject material from a comet’s surface, and the mission garnered considerable publicity from the media, international scientists, and amateur astronomers alike.
Upon the completion of its primary mission, proposals were made to further utilize the spacecraft. Consequently, Deep Impact flew by Earth on December 31, 2007 on its way to an extended mission, designated EPOXI, with a dual purpose to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley). Communication was unexpectedly lost in August 2013 while the craft was heading for another asteroid flyby.
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Thing is though I take issue with lumpenprole as well as it’s used like to hurt people who have to resort to crime to survive. Like it’s wildly racist to say for example gang members are all lumpen and not worthy of attention when the vast majority of them are in that life to get by. So by this logic we could just write off someone who’s unemployed as a dirty lumpen who’s lazy when we don’t know why exactly they don’t work and for what reason. I hope this makes sense.
Lumpen is the correct term in a classification sense due to the individual’s relationship to the means of production. The connotation that comes with it is its own bin of snakes. Plenty of ideological tendencies that have viewed the lumpenproletariat as a revolutionary class in their own right, plenty of others that would agree with the pejorative framework you mentioned. The lumpenproletariat is a land of contrasts :shrug-outta-hecks:
:cringe: bad take , read about the importance of the lumpen in decolonial contexts.
one overview w quote https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/an-ideal-blueprint-the-original-black-panther-party-model-and-why-it-should-be-duplicated?rq=lumpenproletariat
Over the years, Marx’s assessment and discarding of the “lumpenproletariat” - a population that he described as “members of the working-class outside of the wage-labor system who gain their livelihoods through crime and other aspects of the underground economy such as prostitutes, thieves, drug dealers, and gamblers” - had been accepted by many on the Left. However, the BPP’s familiarity with Zedong and Guevara led them away from this commonly accepted notion, and their philosophy paralleled that of Frantz Fanon, who in his ongoing analysis of neocolonialism, deemed the lumpen to be “one of the most spontaneous and the most radically revolutionary forces of a colonized people.”
That’s Marx’s opinion of the lumpenprole, he’s the one who defined it as a pejorative. You should check out ‘Wretched of the Earth’ by Franz Fanon. He speaks a lot about the revolutionary potential of the Lumpenproletariat, especially in the New World, and spoke of it as a virtuous class.
