More importantly, the full moon occupies 0.00077% of our sky, and is moving at 1.022 km/s around the earth. Suffice to say, if you land on the moon, you’ve done something incredible.

The sun is 1.4 million kilometres in diameter, and it is surprisingly hard to throw something into it.

The more important question is how much of our night sky the moon takes up, and the answer is only 0.5 degrees.

Yeah. But then you remember that space is big—so it’s pretty damn easy to miss.

I mean sure but the moon occupies less than 1% of the celestial hemisphere and its moving

Counterpoint:

Orbital semimajor axis of the moon (basically the orbit radius): 384400 km

Subtract earth’s radius: becomes 378000 km above earth’s surface at mean sea level.

Moon radius: 1737.4 km

tan^-1(1737.4 / 378000) = 0.26 degrees

Conclusion: at best, assuming the moon is directly overhead and any glancing contact is a success, you can deviate maximally 0.26 degrees from a dead centre hit to hit the moon.

Good luck with that.

I did the perfect shot, but then it just move out of the way >=\

Do not underestimate the amount of “Hold my beer” that people possess. :-P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#Missing_steel_bore_cap

WE CAN SHOOT THE MOON

WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY