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.

Having played Kerbal Space Program, orbital mechanics and ballistics make that diameter a lot smaller than one might anticipate. It's pretty easy to fuck up.

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

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

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.

Then you remember that he's in a 2'407'100 km void.

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

You could easily fuck it up more. Like, shoot in the opposite direction, or shoot for the sun. Hell, you could just blow the rocket up altogether. Guys, it’s so easy to fuck it up waaayyy more.

Sounds like someone hasn't considered the challenges of achieving escape velocity...

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

Yeah well escape velocity >: (

YOU DO IT