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A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at 7x the speed of sound

• bell-cot 5mo ago
  Eric knows there's no sound on the Moon. At least his(?) subtitle - > The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact. - is not a science education fail.
  • gus_massa 5mo ago
    Most of the times the title is written by someone else. My guess is that they go to something like https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2.43+km+a+second https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=2.43+km+a+second [1] and copy the most clickbaity version. [1] I didn't get 7x speed of sound, but you may be more lucky.
• damnitbuilds 5mo ago
  "Speed of sound" Come on Berger, you're better than that.
• dlcarrier 5mo ago
  Space isn't a perfect vacuum, especially so near the moon, so there is theoretically a speed of sound, it's just really slow.
• m463 5mo ago
  "... the impact will probably be too faint to be seen by Earth-based telescopes." We all know the moon landing happened in a movie studio, so this isn't surprising. ;)