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re: SpaceX rocket will crash into the moon at 5400MPH tonight around 06:35UTC
Posted on 8/4/26 at 2:48 pm to HenryParsons
Posted on 8/4/26 at 2:48 pm to HenryParsons
I've seen the Moonfall. This won't end well.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 3:02 pm to HenryParsons
What if it spewed oil like Beverly Hillbillies?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 4:32 pm to fightin tigers
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Didn't the moon people warn us the last time we shot something into the moon?
Take that you damn Moonies...
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:14 pm to HenryParsons
Somehow, some way, the impact of the rocket will cause the Moon's axial rotation to shift over the course of a few months, causing tidal imbalances on Earth, disturbing crustacean habitats and increasing crawfish prices.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:19 pm to Chad504boy
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all the space coincidences man.
Unless there’s some consideration I’m not thinking of, wouldn’t this be a straight up 50/50 coin flip?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:21 pm to Sterling Archer
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Ok but why are we doing this?
What's the alternative? We're fresh out of spaceships that can catch the biggest rocket in history and haul it safely back to earth.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:23 pm to HenryParsons
So the odyssey is over.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:25 pm to Joshjrn
Yeah a heads heads coin flip
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:30 pm to PsychTiger
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There will be no visibility of this from Earth
Flock cameras will have video
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:33 pm to HenryParsons
That second-stage rocket looks stupid.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:38 pm to HenryParsons
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:52 pm to HenryParsons
I’ve got a bad feeling about this. Such recklessness will probably cause global warming, crawfish prices to rise, LSU fans wanting Kiffin fired after Week 7, and the Dallas Cowboys to lose in the Wild Card round.
This post was edited on 8/4/26 at 5:56 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 5:54 pm to ragincajun03
So, no impact whatsoever.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:00 pm to The Pirate King
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What's the alternative? We're fresh out of spaceships that can catch the biggest rocket in history and haul it safely back to earth.
There's only two options? Haul it back to earth or crash it into the moon?
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:03 pm to HenryParsons
Is this supposed to be impressive?
Rumor has it we sent men to the moon and returned them safely over 50 years ago.
Rumor has it we sent men to the moon and returned them safely over 50 years ago.
This post was edited on 8/4/26 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 6:06 pm to Sterling Archer
Who knows. Probably just so that SpaceX can get attention.
In the extreme off chance that this seriously caused damage to the moon, it would probably end all life on earth, or at least any life that's more complex than bacteria.
In the extreme off chance that this seriously caused damage to the moon, it would probably end all life on earth, or at least any life that's more complex than bacteria.
This post was edited on 8/4/26 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 8/4/26 at 7:10 pm to LSURoss
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I've seen the Moonfall. This won't end well.
Posted on 8/4/26 at 7:13 pm to ragincajun03
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the Dallas Cowboys to lose in the Wild Card round.
Fear not, they won’t make it that far
Posted on 8/4/26 at 8:34 pm to ragincajun03
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LSU fans wanting Kiffin fired after Week 7
That will happen the first time he punts against LA Tech
Posted on 8/4/26 at 9:23 pm to HenryParsons
Launched back on January 15, 2025 with private lunar landers as payload and performed a TLI using up most of its fuel. The planned maneuver to get to safe area wasn’t successful.
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The Falcon 9 launched in January 2025, carrying aloft two private robotic lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and Resilience, which was built by the Tokyo-based company ispace. (Blue Ghost landed successfully and carried out its historic mission, but Resilience crashed during its touchdown attempt.)
Falcon 9 first stages are famously reusable, but the vehicle's upper stages fly just once. SpaceX usually deorbits these rocket bodies shortly after launch, guiding them back for controlled destruction in Earth's atmosphere. That wasn't possible on the Blue Ghost-Resilience launch, however, as getting the lunar probes to their distant deployment point used up almost all of the upper stage's fuel.
As a result, the 8,800-pound (4,000 kilograms) rocket body "was abandoned in a moon-crossing high-Earth orbit," according to a recent study about the coming impact led by Benjamin Fernando of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
SpaceX performed "a different maneuver [than deorbiting] to ensure that the second stage itself is safe per the appropriate rules and regulations," Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science and Dragon programs at SpaceX, said today (Aug. 3) during a press conference discussing the company's Crew-13 astronaut launch to the International Space Station, which is targeted for Sept. 12.
That maneuver did not lock the hunk of space junk into a stable location, however; natural forces still acted upon it and, it turns out, changed its trajectory.
"What has happened is, essentially, a mixture of solar activity and gravity forces have put it on a path towards the moon," Scheiman said.
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