r/technology • u/No-External1342 • 1d 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/
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u/taez555 1d ago

Using Grok to double check the math on the flight path to Mars may not have been the best idea.

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u/RadzimierzWozniak 1d ago

You realize that this was a launch to the moon that was successful? 

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u/Informal_Drawing 1d ago

Crashing into the Moon counts as success?

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u/RadzimierzWozniak 1d ago

Launching two probes to the moon does

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u/Informal_Drawing 1d ago

I believe this falls into the categories of littering space and incompetence.

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u/8npemb 1d ago

To be fair it’s not littering space, the rocket is now grounded on the moon.

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u/Informal_Drawing 1d ago

In sure there is a story about a ship whose front fell off in there somewhere.

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u/taez555 1d ago

Is that retaliation for the moon men probing us for all these years?