[kellyhound]

A mysterious object was captured slamming into the Moon and the video was AI created.

[Guns N' Coffee]

That was a mighty impact to be visible from Earth.

[houseoftechno]

The Space Tesla broke its tether and, well, it had to come to a rest somewhere.

[William May]

Originally Posted by houseoftechno ↗

The Space Tesla broke its tether and, well, it had to come to a rest somewhere.

Have you seen the recent pics of this car? It is TOTALLY HAMMERED! It must be encountering space dust, or micro-meteoroids, or asteroids, or maybe it's being slapped by hemorrhoids, because it looks BAD!

[Mr.NoCredit]

Sora is making a mockery of life.

[akham]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

A mysterious object was captured slamming into the Moon.

No it wasn't. It's fake.

There have been many fake videos created apparently showing things like this, and none of them were real.

Put it this way - if anything remotely like that actually happened for real, it would be the #1 news story everywhere in the world. Seen any such story in any reputable news outlet? No.

Check X to see if any reputable accounts, like the alleged scientists who allegedly explained it, have posted it. Nope. What you will find is it being repeatedly debunked, for example: https://x.com/grok/status/1971968970514485503

The speed of the "object" at the start of the video is completely inconsistent with the speed of the object as it "strikes" the moon. Given the speed of the object at the start of the video, it could not be more than a few seconds away from "striking" the moon and there is nothing whatsoever in the physical world that could make it slow down that quickly (not even if it had retro rockets, which it wouldn't).

The object slows down when the "camera" zooms in, which is the opposite of what would happen in the real world.

The diameter of the moon is about 3,470km. The video (at the start) shows the object covering a distance equal to the diameter of the moon in (very roughly) 2 seconds. That would mean it is travelling at (very roughly) 1,700km per second.

The fastest stuff that has ever been observed hitting the moon was travelling at about 72km per second (160,000mph). That's about 23 times slower than the alleged object in the video was travelling.

I can hear someone saying "Maybe it wasn't an asteriod, maybe it was something that really could travel that fast".

Well, lets debunk the video (yet) another way. For an object roughly 300,000km away (distance to the moon, round figures) to be clearly visible during daylight it would need to be (roughly) at least tens of km in diameter. Let's say 30km in diamater. In metric terms, the quantity of energy possessed by an object that size travelling at 1,700 km a second is known as "a fuckton".

The energy possessed by such an object is (again, very roughly) equivalent to 15,000,000,000,000 megatonnes of TNT.

That is getting into the region (again, very very roughly) of energy that would knock the moon out of orbit around the Earth (over a long period of time), probably at least blow 10% of the Moon away and would definitely eject an enormous amount of moon rock at a speed greater than the escape velocity of the moon, which would mean some of it would come raining down on the Earth. And I know the news media these days is pretty shit, but that's probably going to make the news and some of it would very likley land near you and I - meaning we'd know about it even if the news media didn't report it.

For comparison, the impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was estimated to have energy equivalent to about 100 million megatonnes of TNT. What we're talking about here is about (to one SF) 100,000 times larger than that.

It's fake. If anything even remotely like that happened there would be much more than an uncredited viral video about it. And if someone in reality took that video, wouldn't they be giving interviews about it?

BTW, KH, this is not a personal attack on you - I'm just saying that this is, pretty emphatically not real.

PPS: Yeah, I studied Astronomy a long time ago.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by akham ↗

No it wasn't. It's fake.

There have been many fake videos created apparently showing things like this, and none of them were real.

Put it this way - if anything remotely like that actually happened for real, it would be the #1 news story everywhere in the world. Seen any such story in any reputable news outlet? No.

Check X to see if any reputable accounts, like the alleged scientists who allegedly explained it, have posted it. Nope. What you will find is it being repeatedly debunked, for example: https://x.com/grok/status/1971968970514485503

The speed of the "object" at the start of the video is completely inconsistent with the speed of the object as it "strikes" the moon. Given the speed of the object at the start of the video, it could not be more than a few seconds away from "striking" the moon and there is nothing whatsoever in the physical world that could make it slow down that quickly (not even if it had retro rockets, which it wouldn't).

The object slows down when the "camera" zooms in, which is the opposite of what would happen in the real world.

The diameter of the moon is about 3,470km. The video (at the start) shows the object covering a distance equal to the diameter of the moon in (very roughly) 2 seconds. That would mean it is travelling at (very roughly) 1,700km per second.

The fastest stuff that has ever been observed hitting the moon was travelling at about 72km per second (160,000mph). That's about 23 times slower than the alleged object in the video was travelling.

I can hear someone saying "Maybe it wasn't an asteriod, maybe it was something that really could travel that fast".

Well, lets debunk the video (yet) another way. For an object roughly 300,000km away (distance to the moon, round figures) to be clearly visible during daylight it would need to be (roughly) at least tens of km in diameter. Let's say 30km in diamater. In metric terms, the quantity of energy possessed by an object that size travelling at 1,700 km a second is known as "a fuckton".

The energy possessed by such an object is (again, very roughly) equivalent to 15,000,000,000,000 megatonnes of TNT.

That is getting into the region (again, very very roughly) of energy that would knock the moon out of orbit around the Earth (over a long period of time), probably at least blow 10% of the Moon away and would definitely eject an enormous amount of moon rock at a speed greater than the escape velocity of the moon, which would mean some of it would come raining down on the Earth. And I know the news media these days is pretty shit, but that's probably going to make the news and some of it would very likley land near you and I - meaning we'd know about it even if the news media didn't report it.

For comparison, the impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was estimated to have energy equivalent to about 100 million megatonnes of TNT. What we're talking about here is about (to one SF) 100,000 times larger than that.

It's fake. If anything even remotely like that happened there would be much more than an uncredited viral video about it. And if someone in reality took that video, wouldn't they be giving interviews about it?

BTW, KH, this is not a personal attack on you - I'm just saying that this is, pretty emphatically not real.

PPS: Yeah, I studied Astronomy a long time ago.

just knew it as i discussed this with two others and it would have been all over the news. It's usally a little flash and certainly not a dust cloud as the object would have been immense plus the reasons you mentioned.
Still great footage.

[Spiffyfable]

Finally... footage of the Real Moonlanding