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Discussion (13 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

norenh•5 minutes ago
Welp, my initial thought based on the link was that this was part of Project Pluto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

https://web.archive.org/web/20200329022906/http://www.merkle...

It is not... This is a Falcon-9 rocket stage, not a part from the Flying Crowbar or any similar nightmare-device.

ilamont•about 2 hours ago
I love this page. Text, photos, links. Straight up HTML 4, maybe even using a template in a text editor and FTPed to go live. I didn't see any inline or referenced CSS. No scripts. No ads. No social junk. The home page even has a <table> just like it's 1994.

What are the drawbacks to reverting to this type web publishing? That's how I used to do things before publishing tools and CMS and platforms took over, but I know the security landscape has changed quite a bit, and such pages are always in the deep long tail of Google results (and therefore practically invisible to AI summaries, which often surface complete junk as sources).

sheept•about 1 hour ago
The main drawback with the page's unstyled design is that the page is not mobile friendly.

Publishing web pages by manually editing HTML files is still very common today; any GitHub Pages blog does this.

xnx•about 1 hour ago
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> is the only thing keeping this page from being mobile friendly.

Having that not be the browser default was a good idea in 2008, but not now.

account42•34 minutes ago
It wasn't a good idea even in 2008.
Krssst•about 1 hour ago
Firefox's reader mode works really well on the article, I wonder why it's not the default for unstyled pages.
burkaman•about 1 hour ago
It's obviously not designed for mobile but I wouldn't call it unfriendly, it's still fast and pretty easy to read. It also works perfectly with Firefox reader mode.
barbazoo•30 minutes ago
That's a feature for me, not a bug. Not everything has to be everything-friendly all the time, especially if it makes it easier to consume content or stuff.

Edit: I'm forgetting about certain accessibility issues, although I'm not sure this plain page isn't a good fit for accessibility tools.

deadbabe•5 minutes ago
You could easily make a browser extension that passes each page through an AI agent that will rewrite the page in the given style. It’s fun.
barbazoo•33 minutes ago
And it's so fast even with pictures. I miss the old internet.
sixtyj•about 1 hour ago
> Over 600 Falcon 9 rockets have been launched. Most of the upper stages are either in orbits close to the earth or have already re-entered the earth's atmosphere. A few are orbiting the sun. The object that will be hitting the moon has been orbiting the earth for a little over a year.
clort•44 minutes ago
something they didn't mention, what is in this upper stage? I'm presuming a rocket motor and some fuel is that right..? They do a calculation of energy release on impact, but I'm wondering if there is any fuel left and whether that would affect their equation?