{"id":400969,"date":"2022-01-29T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/spacexs-derelict-rocket-will-crash-and-create-a-worrying-new-moon-crater\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T13:00:25","slug":"spacexs-derelict-rocket-will-crash-and-create-a-worrying-new-moon-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spacexs-derelict-rocket-will-crash-and-create-a-worrying-new-moon-crater\/","title":{"rendered":"#SpaceX\u2019s derelict rocket will crash and create a worrying new Moon crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a1bd9ac19c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a1bd9ac19c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spacexs-derelict-rocket-will-crash-and-create-a-worrying-new-moon-crater\/#Misplaced_concern\" >Misplaced concern<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/spacexs-derelict-rocket-will-crash-and-create-a-worrying-new-moon-crater\/#Biological_contamination\" >Biological contamination<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#SpaceX\u2019s derelict rocket will crash and create a worrying new Moon crater<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                            It\u2019s not often that the sudden <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance of a new impact crater on the Moon can be predicted, but it\u2019s going to happen on March 4, when a derelict<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/vehicles\/falcon-9\/\">SpaceX Falcon 9<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>rocket will crash into it.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket launched in 2015, carrying Nasa\u2019s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) probe into a position 1.5 million kilometers from the Earth, facing the Sun. But the expended upper stage of the rocket had insufficient speed to escape into an independent orbit around the Sun, and was abandoned without an option to steer back into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. That would be normal practice, allowing stages to burn up on re-entry, thus reducing the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/news\/orbital_debris.html\">clutter in near-Earth space<\/a> caused by dangerous junk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<figure>\n<p>                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=\" https:=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/DMdhQsHbWTs\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <!--resp-video-container--><\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Time lapse movie made from 5 hours of images, recorded by DSCOVR.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since February 2015, the 14 meters long, derelict upper stage, massing nearly four tonnes, has therefore been in a wide orbit about the Earth. Its precise movements have been hard to predict, because they were influenced by lunar and solar gravity as well as the Earth\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>But we can now tell that it is going to hit the Moon on March 4 at a speed of about 2.6 kilometres per second. This will make a crater about 19 meters in diameter \u2013 a prospect that has provoked outrage in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> circles from people who are appalled that human negligence will disfigure the Moon in this way.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Misplaced_concern\"><\/span>Misplaced concern<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is, however, surely more environmentally friendly for a dead rocket to end up on the Moon than being scattered through Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere in the form of metal oxide particles, which is what happens during a re-entry burn up. The Moon also lacks an atmosphere to shield it from space debris, so it is accumulating naturally occurring impact craters all the time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"align-center \">\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px\" alt=\"A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center\/Arizona State University\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=341&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 600w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=341&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1200w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=341&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 1800w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=428&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 754w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=428&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1508w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=428&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 2262w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fspace%2F2022%2F01%2F29%2Fspacexs-rocket-create-worrying-moon-crater-syndication%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center\/Arizona State University\" data-title=\"Share A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center\/Arizona State University on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center\/Arizona State University on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center\/Arizona State University<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" alt=\"A 19 metre lunar crater made by a natural impact on 17 March 2013. NASA\/Goddard Space Flight Center\/Arizona State University\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" class=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=341&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 600w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=341&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1200w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=341&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 1800w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=428&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 754w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=428&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1508w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442792\/original\/file-20220126-13-ftj8tj.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=428&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 2262w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure><figcaption\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has already imaged a 19 meter crater formed when a half a tonne lump of asteroid rock <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing about ten times faster than the Falcon 9 struck the surface in March 2013. Over the past decade, hundreds of smaller impacts, by chunks of rock weighing as little as half a kilogram, have been spotted by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/marshall\/news\/lunar\/overview.html\">Nasa\u2019s lunar impact monitoring project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p class=\"p2\">\n<figure>\n<p>                <iframe loading=\"lazy\" srcdoc=\"&lt;style&gt;*{padding:0;margin:0;overflow:hidden}html,body{background:#000;height:100%}img{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;transition:opacity .1s cubic-bezier(0.4,0,1,1)}a:hover img+img{opacity:1!important}&lt;\/style&gt;&lt;a href=\" https:=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/IYloGuUZCFM\/hqdefault.jpg\" style=\"top: 50%;left:50%;width:68px;height:48px;transform:translate3d(-50%,-50%,0)\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>        <!--resp-video-container--><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The coming impact will be on the lunar far side, so we won\u2019t be able to see it happen. But spacecraft orbiting the Moon will be able to image the impact crater afterward. Will we learn anything new? There have been several previous deliberate crashes onto the Moon, so we know what to expect.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the considerably larger upper stages of rockets used in the Apollo landing missions were crashed so that vibrations detected by seismometers installed on the surface could be used to investigate the lunar interior. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/the-moon-is-still-geologically-active-study-suggests-116768\">Apollo seismometers<\/a> were turned off long ago, and is not clear whether the seismometer on China\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/china-lands-on-the-far-side-of-moon-here-is-the-science-behind-the-mission-108566\">Chang\u2019e 4 far side lunar lander<\/a> will be able to provide any useful data this time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"align-center \">\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 1466px) 754px, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, (min-width: 600px) 600px, 237px\" alt=\"30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage. NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=600&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 600w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=600&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1200w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=600&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 1800w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=754&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 754w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=754&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1508w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=754&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 2262w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fspace%2F2022%2F01%2F29%2Fspacexs-rocket-create-worrying-moon-crater-syndication%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: 30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage. NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University\" data-title=\"Share 30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage. NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share 30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage. NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage. NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University<\/figcaption><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" alt=\"30 metre wide crater on the Moon from the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage. NASA\/GSFC\/Arizona State University\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=600&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 600w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=600&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1200w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=600&amp;h=600&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 1800w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=754&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=1 754w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=30&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=754&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=2 1508w, https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/442807\/original\/file-20220126-21-1dm39ti.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=15&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;h=754&amp;fit=crop&amp;dpr=3 2262w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure><figcaption\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A precisely targeted, deliberate crash was also achieved in 2009 when <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LCROSS\/main\/index.html\">Nasa\u2019s LCROSS mission<\/a> sent a projectile into a permanently shadowed polar crater \u2013 making a smaller crater on its icy floor and throwing up a plume that proved to contain the hoped for water vapor.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Biological_contamination\"><\/span>Biological contamination<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So I\u2019m not bothered by one more crater being made on the Moon. It already has something like half a billion craters that are ten meters or more in diameter. What we should worry about is contaminating the Moon with living microbes, or molecules that could in the future be mistaken as evidence of former life on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>Most nations have signed up to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Planetary_protection\">planetary protection<\/a> protocols that seek to minimize the risk of biological contamination from Earth to another body (and also from another body back to Earth). The protocols are in place for reasons both ethical and scientific. The ethical argument is that it would not be right to put at risk any ecosystem that may exist on another body by introducing organisms from Earth that might thrive there. The scientific argument is that we want to study and understand the natural conditions on each other body, so we should not risk compromising or destroying them by wanton contamination.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest recent breach of the COSPAR protocols was in 2019 when the privately funded Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crashed on the Moon, carrying DNA samples and thousands of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/tardigrades-were-now-polluting-the-moon-with-near-indestructible-little-creatures-121602\">tardigrades<\/a>. Those are half millimeter long organisms that can tolerate, though not be active in, the vacuum of space. These, and presumably also the microbes that lived in their guts, are now scattered across the Beresheet crash site.<\/p>\n<p>Most likely none of these will end up in a niche where there is enough water for them to revive and become active, but that is not a risk we should be taking. The DSCOVR Falcon 9 was not sterile upon launch, but nor did it carry a biological cargo. It\u2019s also been seven years in space, so by now the risk of biocontamination is vanishingly small \u2013 but the more things we send to the Moon, the more careful we must be and the harder it will be to enforce any rules.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/goddard\/nasas-lro-spacecraft-finds-march-17-2013-impact-crater-and-more\">Swipe left-right to see before and after images of natural lunar crater<\/a><!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. Please DO NOT REMOVE. --><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; margin: 0 !important; max-height: 1px !important; max-width: 1px !important; min-height: 1px !important; min-width: 1px !important; opacity: 0 !important; outline: none !important; padding: 0 !important; text-shadow: none !important;\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/counter.theconversation.com\/content\/175773\/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\"\/><!-- End of code. If you don't see any code above, please get new code from the Advanced tab after you click the republish button. The page counter does not collect any personal data. 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