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[–] halcyoncmdr 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better fine the US government or NASA for all the Saturn V upper stages that are floating around up there as well. Nearly every Saturn V third stage was sent into an orbit around the sun after the Lunar injection maneuver, they're all still up there. In fact, they lose track of those and "rediscover" them all the time because. The three-body problem is not fully solvable with our current technology, and the further out you get from initial conditions the less accurate calculations become.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I mean, I'm very okay with that too. 😁