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Fringey Mini; We love old news · Journey to the Fringe

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  Okay, Chelsea, I went a little doom and gloom
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  with that last one, but let's maybe go less doom
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  and gloom with this mini. Okay, yeah, yeah. Actually,
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  do you want to go doom and gloom or do you want
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  to not go doom and gloom? No, no, you already
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  made my heart happy a little. You gave me some
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  hope, so let's keep it that way. Okay. I know
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  what's coming up on Friday. Okay, fine. Okay,
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  this... Comes from some weird... I don't know
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  why this website, but it's where I found it.
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  ua -stena .info It was written by Mikhail Varnit
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  on July 26, 2026. Article title, SpaceX rocket
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  to crash into the moon on August 5, 2026. This
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  is good news. Which has unfortunately already
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  happened by the time this episode comes out.
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  The time keeps fooling us. Space is full of surprises,
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  but this one sounds like something straight out
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  of science fiction movies. On August of 2026,
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  a massive Falcon 9 rocket stage launched by SpaceX
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  is expected to crash into the moon. The mission
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  it supported ended long ago, yet one piece of
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  the rocket has continued drifting through space.
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  Now its journey is almost over. The object is
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  the upper stage of the Falcon 9 that carried
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  Blue Ghost and Hakuto -R lunar landers into space
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  in January 2025. While the reusable first stage
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  landed back safely on Earth, the second stage
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  remained in deep space. It never had enough fuel
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  to return, and it was placed in an orbit that
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  made re -entry in Earth's atmosphere impossible.
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  Astronomer Bill Gray has tracked the rocket stage
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  since late 2025. His latest calculations support
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  the impact is now unavoidable. Unless something
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  unexpected happens, the stage will collide with
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  the lunar surface at nearly 2 .4 kilometers per
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  second, or 5 ,400 miles per hour. That may not
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  sound incredibly fast by space standards, but
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  it's more than enough to carve out a fresh crater
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  into the moon. The Falcon 9 stage weighs about
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  4 .9 metric tons, making it one of the largest
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  human -made objects expected to hit the moon
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  in recent years. Scientists estimate the collision
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  will release energy roughly equal to three tons
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  of TNT. Because the moon has no atmosphere, there
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  will be no fireball or shockwave like those seen
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  on Earth. Instead, the impact will throw clouds
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  of dust and broken rock high above the lunar
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  surface. the new crater could reach about 20
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  meters across for planetary scientists that is
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  exciting news fresh craters expose underground
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  material that has not been affected by billions
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  of years of space weather studying these newly
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  uncovered layers helps researchers better understand
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  the moon's history the impact is expected to
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  occur near einstein crater closer to the edge
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  of the moon's visible side the exact location
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  will be updated shortly before the collision
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  tiny gravitational effects from the earth and
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  the moon can slightly change the rocket's final
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  path if skies are clear observatories across
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  north and south america will try to capture the
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  event the flash will likely be too faint for
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  casual sky watchers powerful telescopes equipped
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  with sensitive cameras could record it even a
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  few seconds of footage would provide valuable
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  scientific data Interestingly, this is not the
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  first time humans were unintentionally or deliberately
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  sent hardware crashing into the moon. During
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  the Apollo era, NASA intentionally directed spent
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  rocket stages towards the lunar surface. Their
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  impact generated seismic wave that instruments
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  left behind by astronauts successfully recorded.
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  NASA repeated the idea decades later with LCROSS
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  mission. In 2009, a spacecraft slammed into a
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  permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's south
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  pole. The resulting debris cloud confirmed the
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  presence of frozen water beneath the surface.
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  That discovery became one of the most important
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  lunar findings of the century. the upcoming impact
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  was never part of the original mission plan is
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  simply the result of orbital mechanics even so
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  researchers see it as another rare opportunity
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  to watch a fresh impact happen in real time instead
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  of discovering craters years later this event
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  also highlights a growing challenge for future
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  exploration more countries and private companies
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  are sending spacecrafts towards the moon than
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  ever before as traffic in cis lunar space increases
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  tracking abandoned rocket stages and other space
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  debris is becoming increasingly important And
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  that's where the article ends. Who knows? Maybe
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  we might even include a link of the actual crash
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  itself, seeing as how it comes out after. And
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  I didn't want to disappoint you guys, but that's
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  on Chelsea, not me. What can I say? Do you think
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  it might be mantid beings? You know what? There
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  was actually, I cut the story, but it was a guy
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  who was astral projecting and he astral projected
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  onto the moon and he saw mantids there. I knew
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  it. So, weirdly, kind of, yeah. That's all I
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  got. Okay. Well, you guys got 48 hours. I don't
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  know. Check out the video we maybe linked or
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  go find it yourself. I can't help you here. Okay,
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  bye. We can't predict the future. Bye.