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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

61 pointsby beardywyesterday at 11:31 AM43 commentsview on HN

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the_kingyesterday at 11:26 PM

I cannot wait for Starship to become a real thing, but you have to admit it's way behind schedule. The engines are awesome now.

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LeoPantherayesterday at 9:46 PM

"List of artificial objects on the Moon"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_on_...

It's a lot more than you might think, and I couldn't find a comprehensive list of the non-spacecraft objects, some of which are hinted at in the first paragraph.

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anticensoryesterday at 9:12 PM

Let's make it intentional and controlled then.

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flockonusyesterday at 10:47 PM

Curious to see if to what intensity the Moon will "ring like a bell" at this one.

ref: https://books.google.ie/books?id=6QAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA...

spwa4yesterday at 9:37 PM

What I think is very ironic is that Blue Origin actually beat SpaceX to Mars, after a decade of SpaceX "make life multiplanetary". A few months after Blue Origin did that SpaceX announced now they'll just go to the Moon, no more Mars.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-blue-origin-launch-tw...

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truenoyesterday at 9:23 PM

inb4 wreckage on the moon that stays there forever

drivebyhootingyesterday at 10:21 PM

Several times the speed of sound? That is meaningless when there is no media for the sound waves. I think a better unit might be furlongs per fortnight.

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