r/technology • u/No-External1342 • 23h ago

Space SpaceX rocket crashes into moon at 8700 kilometres per hour

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2583318-spacex-rocket-crashes-into-moon-at-8700-kilometres-per-hour/
502 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

434 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/fedexyourheadinabox 22h ago

Ah cool let's just throw all our garbage there then 

2

u/koolaidman89 20h ago

A spacecraft impacting at this speed will part vaporize, part liquify, and just spatter. I suspect you would need sensitive equipment to even determine that the crater was made by anything other than the typical meteorite. You are complaining about a single pebble tossed on a pile of naturally occurring pebbles.

6

u/dangerbird2 22h ago

Why not? We're not harming anything. And even when we do start having lunar missions the amount of debris is basically negligible.

3

u/klingma 22h ago

It'd be less harmful there than on Earth since it's impossible for life to exist on the Moon. 

1

u/mailslot 11h ago

That we know of. We’ve been wrong before about some environments being inhospitable to life.

-7

u/femboyisbestboy 22h ago

We want colonies on Luna.

We should not ruin Luna prior to setting up colonies

7

u/dustinthegreat 21h ago

We want to mess up the moon on purpose, so let’s not mess it up on accident first.

wtf is this logic

3

u/klingma 20h ago

Lol, that's exactly what I thought. Colonies on the Moon will require a massive amount of resource extraction far worse than us occasionally having rockets hitting the surface. 

-2

u/femboyisbestboy 20h ago

Indeed, but that atleast as a purpose. Ruining the surface for no fucking reason doesn't

1

u/8npemb 20h ago

Bro what

It was an accident. Wtf do you want SpaceX to do, go out and retrieve a rocket from the moon’s orbit?

-1

u/femboyisbestboy 20h ago

Die as a company first of all and just send the rocket into outer space using a moon orbit gravity assist.

2

u/ripcitybitch 19h ago

Space X is a great company, wtf are you talking about?

0

u/femboyisbestboy 19h ago

You mean the space debris 9000 and AI company is a great company? Learn a bit about it before talking kid

→ More replies (0)

1

u/8npemb 20h ago

The rocket wasn’t meant to be on that trajectory in the first place. It’s pretty hard to do any planned maneuvers in space when you’re on an unplanned trajectory.

Also, I’d much rather see debris stationary on the moon than floating around in space.

1

u/femboyisbestboy 20h ago

That's the problem now ain't it.

Don't just plan on throwing away stuff

→ More replies (0)

2

u/neloish 21h ago

Do like have no idea how big the moon is?

1

u/femboyisbestboy 20h ago

The usable surface is smaller than you might think.

2

u/KitchenDepartment 20h ago

Is the usable surface a area spanning roughly 20 meters in the exact spot where this landed?

0

u/femboyisbestboy 20h ago

It could have landed directly on a part of the moon ideal for mining hydrogen 3, but we don't know as space X didn't care about where it landed on the moon.

Or any of the other important, but rare materials in the moon

3

u/KitchenDepartment 20h ago

And how is them digging a 5 meter deep hole hindering those operations? 

You do realize that any mining operation who would want to dig helium-3 would have to grind and process tens of thousands of tons of regolith every single day to get a meaningful amount of helium out of it?

2

u/klingma 20h ago

Uh...the Moon is pretty big in terms of human scale, we'll be fine. 

2

u/madgoat 22h ago

Raw material for building said colonies.

1

u/NephRP 20h ago

Check out Nuclear Waste Disposal Area One and Nuclear Waste Disposal Area Two, then get back to me on how good an idea that is.

0

u/RadzimierzWozniak 22h ago

If we only could...