Post #1822412
2026-04-30 22:40 UTC
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116488045155292546
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social oh yay, SpaceX dropping debris on /two/ celestial bodies now 🙄
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@ramsey@phpc.social 2026-05-01 00:25
@anyia @sundogplanets The article title is “A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound.” When I showed my son, he said, “But the atmosphere on the Moon is mostly vacuum. There’s no sound.”
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@leonardof@bertha.social 2026-05-01 02:13
@anyia @sundogplanets IIRC NASA has a planetary defense officer which, among other stuff, takes care that spacecrafts landing on other planets/mooms/etc will not contaminate them with microbes from Earth. I guess SpaceX did not take these precautions with the upper stage of the Falcon9?
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@trouble@masto.ai 2026-05-01 14:05
@anyia @sundogplanets What ever happened to the Tesla Roadster chassis they lobbed towards mars? Anyone tracking that? It could increase the count to 3...