Cracking the Moon
The upper stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, launched by SpaceX in collaboration with NASA on 15 January 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crashed at 8,690 km/h in the northern hemisphere of the Moon Wednesday 5 August 2026 in the morning. This assault on the celestial body, caused by an error or negligence in the command of the Blue Ghost 1 commercial mission, carved out a crater and sent up a huge clood of lunar geological dust and toxic dust from the splitting of the rocket’s upper stage (15 to 20 metres long, 3.9 tonnes) and the harmful substances and materials on board.
Maritime traffic hits rock bottom
On May 25, 2025, the dilapidated container ship MSC Elsa 3, which was certified as suitable for sea transport by the French group Veritas, sunk south of Kochi, State of Kerala, India. Fifteen days later, a white tide of plastic pellets is invading ports and beaches. Twenty-five kilogram (plastic) bags of pellets wash up on the shore as well. Fishing is banned in a large area. This means desolation for the coastline and thousands of fishermen who live there. The government of the Indian Union is trying to reassure them. Currently 100 meters below sea-level, the wreck of the Elsa 3 should be raised from the seafloor to recover all of the containers in her hold. All the containers that were on the bridge are already adrift. Initial findings suggest that a malfunction in the ballast water tank filling system caused the sudden and uncontrollable list.
