Ya but the moon covers at best only about 10 ppm of the sky’s area so given a random direction within the hemisphere defined by the sky in which the moon is visible and traveling in a straight line you have a roughly 99.9990% chance of missing so that’s understandable really.
Harsh
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ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 1 hour ago
moseschrute@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
if_only@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
The real hero here
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“If you miss, you end up among the stars.”
OH DEAR LORD WE ARE OUT OF FUEL AND OXYGEN IT’S SO COLD SO COLD
Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 hours ago
Don't panic. Shut everything down. Call the Fuel Rats.
Palerider@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Only had to do it for that once… They were awesome, saved my Cutter that I forgot I’d removed the fuel scoop from.
o7
Yorick@piefed.social 4 hours ago
o7
hDGGgrLpg8nEucjxWnJz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I had a manager tells me this once. It was literally written on the mug he was drinking out of at the time. I remember feeling so valued and inspired.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“Among the stars” might suggest it’s very much not cold. You’re in a stellar nursery.
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
I thought i was gonna have an easy time aiming for yo mama,
But the joke is on me cause i miss her.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nice
Dadifer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
You could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and our moon simultaneously.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 7 hours ago
I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I’ve read.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Fuck you for making me look this up. Only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune would fit together. Venus, Mars, and Mercury are too much.
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Depends on which part of the orbit. Perigee (closest point) is ~ 354,491 km surface to surface. Apogee (farthest point) is ~ 397,291 km surface to surface. At Apogee you could got them all. At perigee not at all.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Please don’t.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I think our oceans would leave earth, tide-wise
ceenote@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I bet I could miss those, too.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I could? I think you overestimate my power.
SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The moon takes up only around 0.00077% of the visible area of the sky. That’s a pretty small target.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And begging your pardon sir, it’s a big ass sky.
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Also it moves at 1 km/s around its orbit
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
So you have almost an hour before it passes you. Easy mode.
mercano@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We’re trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yes you could have fucked this up more. You could have posted this censored bullshit on the Internet
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
farked?
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
f⸤▬こked
don@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
That’s like the pasties of censorship lol
Lauchmelder@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Actually it makes more sense to state the moons solid angle in the sky from where I’m standing, instead of its surface area ☝️🤓
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Not as fucking up as much as posting censored memes. You can swear on Lemmy, it’s allowed.
milliams@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It’s moving pretty fast though.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s relative.
azi@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you’re now in orbit, and that was almost certainly the goal anyway
falseWhite@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Nuh uh. I measured it just now, put my trusty ruler in front of my face and measured only 2 CM!
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 41 minutes ago
Who are these people who cross out two letters of a cussword worried about? Everyone can still read this and all it does is make the edit look like someone is a pearl clutcher.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 minutes ago
Same reason that people bleep out two nanoseconds of the word in audio
BearGun@ttrpg.network 31 minutes ago
It’s typically for posting to platforms that “deprioritise” posts that contain “naughty” words, not actually anything about humans caring about it.