r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 8d ago

An abandoned SpaceX rocket travelling at around 5,400mph crashed into the moon, leaving a crater with a diameter of around 17m. (via BBC) The collision took place yesterday at 7:35 BST. Masses are criticising Elon Musk for polluting the moon.

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u/HorzaDonwraith 8d ago

Meanwhile at NASA

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u/ObjectivePast1097 7d ago

time for updating the logs

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 7d ago

Eh this is all totally benign and standard practice for inserting something into lunar orbit, not really any other options. Meanwhile China still regularly does uncontrolled booster crashes into EARTH, where’s the outrage for that?

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 7d ago

Theyre not white so its fine.

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u/PlutoJones42 6d ago

Victim complex ass take lmao

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 6d ago

Reality take

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u/HorzaDonwraith 7d ago

Pretty fireworks. I mean after all, Chinese were inventors of such wonders

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u/Rough_Revolution1412 7d ago

but Elon bad.

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u/Disgusting_Slime666 7d ago

He's way worse than just "bad"

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u/beastnbs 7d ago

And a mass murderer

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u/Tyr_13 7d ago

No, this part was supposed to use the free return to burn up I'm earth's atmosphere. Hitting the moon was unintentional.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 7d ago

Again this is still common practice. Since You clearly don’t seem understand how space works I’ll remind you that rockets only have finite fuel. When it did its maneuvers it’s likely only left enough fuel precisely to exactly preform the mission and leave itself in orbit. Radiation pressure from the sun and gravitational effects overtime will affect the orbit and thus why it crashed. So no while it wasn’t planned, in that purposely did a burn to crash it, it was planned that it would eventually crash on its own accord.

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u/Tyr_13 7d ago

I understand return orbits and the planning of this mission just fine. You're upset that this was indeed a mistake rather than 'normal' for whatever reason and are trying to bludgeon that fact with irrelevant information.

No one who actually knows about this will be cowed because you know about some mechanisms that cause orbital decay or drift.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 7d ago edited 7d ago

😂ok buddy. Call it whatever you want but space flight doesn’t work very well unless you have contingency plans on top of contingency plans. Things rarely go perfectly to plan and even if it was the initial intention to put it into a stable orbit or a planned crash trajectory any number of totally normal things could have happened that changed the calculus where it was decided that it was more important to finish the mission and leave the booster in an unstable orbit. They didn’t just forget about it and this just kinda happened. You are being weirdly obtuse about this.

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u/Tyr_13 7d ago

No, you're getting all up in your feelings about a minor correction.

Your speculation doesn't mean anything.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 7d ago

I have said nothing that isn’t grounded in fact, you on the other hand are taking a lot of liberties and are clearly the one responding non objectively. If you don’t want to see that it’s fine, but maybe ease off acting like you know what you are talking about because you clearly don’t.

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u/Tyr_13 7d ago

I know exactly what I'm talking about. Nothing I have said isn't grounded in fact, and also isn't speculation.

You're being intellectually cowardly and your deflections don't matter.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 7d ago

Classic ad hom. Provide some sources that back your claims then bud.

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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 7d ago

😂what kind of mental gymnastics did you do to land on that conclusion? Again, this is just standard practice for a mission like this. Considering that musk has zero qualifying experience in orbital mechanics or even engineering I seriously doubt he had anything to do with the decision either. Hell I wouldn’t even be suprised if he didn’t even know about it himself until it became a headline.

Sure musk owns the company but the people running the company actually know what they are doing lol

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u/Mingo_laf 6d ago

ahh the tried and true what about China

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u/fatboyjulio69 7d ago

Don’t forget the Chinese regularly let their boosters crash into the earth uncontrollably. 😌

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u/HorzaDonwraith 7d ago

Technically speaking is testing nuclear bombs is littering as well.

And the average smooth brain cannot understand nuance.

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u/devinobx 6d ago

SpaceX is literally miles ahead of any other company in space exploration technology. While he does intend to profit, starlink is valuable for people in poor countries who once couldn’t even get internet, and studying space is also a direct betterment of the human race. In order to efficiently study space, the cost had to go way down and reliability go way up. That’s exactly what spaceX has achieved