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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 perilunar »

somat wrote: post #40
jdironman wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this pages case, I disagree. I feel like when pages try to force their 'aspect ratio / styling' to fit the view port I have to fight more with it. at least as it stands I can zoom as needed on this page, I can appreciate the web devs 'vision' as in how it probably appeared on their machine. I honestly hate mobile sites unless they are done just super super well which is harder than expected. https://rockauto.com i…

A page like this, with minimal styling, the whole point is the author does not care, the author expects the user's agent to style the document optimally for it's dimensions., the optimal in responsive design. this was the original vision for the web, the agent supplies most of the style. Except it does not, for some weird reason unstyled pages like this which should look great on mobile look like ass. Why are mobile…

As mentioned above, adding a viewport meta tag will make most unstyled pages look much better on mobile.

> Why are mobile browsers defaults so wrong?

History. When mobile browsers first appeared they had to default to a desktop page width to avoid breaking exisiting content, much of which was either built in layout tables or used CSS that assumed a wider window. The viewport meta tag was introduced (by Apple in Mobile Safari when the iPhone first came out, IIRC) so developers could override that behaviour. I think the defaults made a lot of sense at the time, and Apple made the right choice.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by perilunar »

cyanregiment wrote: post #51
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 miss FTP man… let’s go back

Nothing stopping you — it's still there and still works. I use it for one of my sites.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by perilunar »

sixtyj wrote: post #6

> Over 600 Falcon 9 rockets have been launched. Most of the upper stages are either in orbits close to the earth or have already re-entered the earth's atmosphere. A few are orbiting the sun. The object that will be hitting the moon has been orbiting the earth for a little over a year.

Just imagine what you could build with 600 Falcon 9 upper stages.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by bmitc »

> Generally speaking, such objects are very poorly tracked.

Why is there not any regulations about this stuff? So we can't throw a napkin out the window (not that I condone littering), but SpaceX can just literally throw stuff into space that either re-enters Earth (adds to air and environmental issues), swings around in space untracked, or hits the Moon without any reprecussions? Why isn't it on SpaceX to track the trash they're throwing up?

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by bmitc »

reaperducer wrote: post #45
ralfd wrote: post #27

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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.

From the pictures I just saw online, it seems like there have indeed been cases of rocket debris as well.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by bmitc »

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…

> lifeless rock

Do you know that for a fact? Unlikely sure, but the question isn't helped by ramming a thing that might have Earth-born life on it into it.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by pynappo »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #53
recursive wrote: post #34

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If you need to scroll the viewport left and right to read a line of text, that seems kind of unfriendly.

On my screen it fit perfectly after double tapping

I mean it fits, but i don't find the text size particularly usable for mobile

On vivaldi mobile on an android phone (with an approximately 6x3" display), i see this as the first line:

> On 2026 August 5, within a few minutes of 06:35 UTC, an upper stage (section) of a rocket used for a lunar mission will hit the

And for me, reading a 124 character wide line on a 3" wide screen (75mmish) is not particularly comfortable.

Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by hotelsacher »

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.

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Re: Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

phoghed wrote: post #44
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #39

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> 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.

Add what in a meta tag?

Why should web developers change their content to work on defective browsers?

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