Samuel
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I can’t believe this deeply goofy idea actually worked
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🏳️⚧️Magical Goth GirrlThats what happen when the people actualy calling the shots are experienced engineers, not a whinny manchild
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David Buchanantwitter isn't real, it was created by spacex management as a tool to keep elon preoccupied
4 13 109Samuelthank you Gwynne Shotwell 🙏
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Arvid E.P.I hope some day they write a book about her. Or whoever is secretly managing to keep the man childs ego in check while simultaneously managing a company full of exceptional engineers.
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MetaflameI choose to believe this conspiracy theory
it takes smart engineers to catch a rocket, it takes smarter engineers to create the perfect platform to keep a manchild billionaire too busy to mess anything else up
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Thomas FuchsThat explains a lot
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Trevor HeywoodI wish he would just stick to rockets.
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sigefredosouza.bsky.socialMaybe the idiocy lies in the belief that the idea is stupid
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SheogorathThis is gonna save so much money too.
AlterSchinkenThe less spacecraft you have to carry (landing gear, etc..) the more payload can be carried. Less fuel required for launch and landing = more payload.
bleddwgan🦑more tech should be based on goofy principles
Time SpinnerThat's some second-grader-being-asked-to-make-an-egg-survive-a-landing logic.
"The rocket will explode if it contacts the ground."
"Okay, what if we give it somewhere to land that's not the ground?"
Dr. NefarioFirst rule of engineering - if it is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
alphadecTotal fail no 5