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Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by gavinsyancey »

sheept wrote: post #3
ilamont wrote: post #2

I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a just like it's 1994. What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the s…

The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly. Publishing web pages by manually editing HTML files is still very common today; any GitHub Pages blog does this.

I read it on a mobile device and found it perfectly legible. I like small text though.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by ColdStream »

ilamont wrote: post #2

I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a just like it's 1994. What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the s…

It highlighted something that I hadn't realised had been impacting me. The latency of the modern web.

There are a lot of hyperlinks on there and clicking around on various related articles was near instantaneous. It actually made navigation very useful and not feel like a burden. I will take that over any visual flair any day.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by CommenterPerson »

ilamont wrote: post #2

I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a just like it's 1994. What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the s…

I wish the entire web was in this format. Really. May need a bit of work to navigate around but very fast, no BS, no tracking.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by phoghed »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #39
sheept wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly. Publishing web pages by manually editing HTML files is still very common today; any GitHub Pages blog does this.

> The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly. Then fix mobile browsers to display it correctly.

They’re already fixed, just add the meta tag if you give the slightest semblance of a shit. Otherwise don’t and people may be less inclined to engage with your content on their phone.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by reaperducer »

ralfd wrote: post #27
dopamean wrote: post #18

After so much time hearing about how SpaceX dumps rocket debris all over Boca Chica it's kind of amusing that they're also leaving trash on the moon. It would be cool if we sent people back to the moon one day and they took photos next to junk like this. Or whatever is left of it.

There is not much rocket debris in Boca Chica. If you do find something sell it on ebay.

Debris of rockets, no.

Debris caused by rockets, yes. Tons of it. Go visit and see for yourself.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by estearum »

ggreer wrote: post #32
ck2 wrote: post #19

someone send them a littering bill sadly one day hundreds of years from now parts of the moon will look like all the garbage left on Everest (and maybe even the dead frozen bodies too, moon dust is sticky and very sharp apparently)

The moon is a lifeless rock with nobody on it. That seems like a better place for garbage to go than the earth. And since it's going to impact the moon at 2.43km/sec, I don't think there will be much visible stuff remaining, just a crater and some bits of aluminum. Also what's the alternative? Moon missions don't have enough extra propellant to go back to earth and deorbit. They might have enough to move to a relativ…

Same rationale for dumping chemicals in the river. It's a river! It all just flows away! There's so much water, who could even notice?

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by [deleted] »

xnx wrote: post #7
sheept wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly. Publishing web pages by manually editing HTML files is still very common today; any GitHub Pages blog does this.

is the only thing keeping this page from being mobile friendly. Having that not be the browser default was a good idea in 2008, but not now.

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Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by estearum »

1970-01-01 wrote: post #29
ck2 wrote: post #19

someone send them a littering bill sadly one day hundreds of years from now parts of the moon will look like all the garbage left on Everest (and maybe even the dead frozen bodies too, moon dust is sticky and very sharp apparently)

That's the neat thing. Dumping on the moon or anywhere (other than Earth) isn't possible, as the litter is infinitely more valuable than the existing dust and rock. It's as if someone was dumping gold bricks into your yard. You really wouldn't mind at all, and would ask for more. The only exception would be radioactive waste, as that is less valuable than the surrounding dust and rock.

What logic tree arrives at this conclusion and doesn't arrive at the same conclusion for dumping in, idk, Arches National Park?

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by accrual »

ilamont wrote: post #2

I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a just like it's 1994. What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the s…

The author's email obfuscation holds up well against small local models too, just for kicks neither Qwen-9B, Gemma-12B, nor GPT-OSS-20B could read it, giving results like "poc.otulptcejorp@otulm".
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