I'm guessing that if they had successfully landed the rocket yesterday,
it wouldn't have even been on the news. Instead it fell over, and the
talking heads were bringing it up every 30 min and looping the video 3
or 4 times. I feel like there is some sort of saying "Failure is
easier than success" and the world today is all about "Easy".
On 1/19/2016 9:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
It does seem to me that people started out focusing on the successes
at NASA and ended up focusing only on the failures, now the cycle is
starting over with private enterprise.
I don’t like the way people universally started to talk about the
Space Shuttle like some enormous failure to be mocked. NASA and their
contractors were told to build a reusable space truck for delivering
stuff to orbit, and that’s what they built. At the beginning people
ignored the risks and marveled at the successes. Then there were some
failures, and eventually no one cared about the successes, it wasn’t
new and shiny.
*From:* That One Guy /sarcasm <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 8:53 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Space X
I still think NASA should have been revamped. Private entities should
foot the bill for all failures, paid only upon success.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Lewis Bergman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Agreed, I am still amazed they can hit the damn ship without
crashing it into it.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016, 10:34 AM Josh Reynolds <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The speed at which they are progressing is astounding. They
are doing
some truly amazing things.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Jason McKemie
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Yeah, I was watching that live. They lost satellite uplink
to the ship right
> before they landed it unfortunately. Disappointing to see
they had more
> problems. The seas were apparently pretty rough and they
mentioned that ice
> on the pad could have been a factor. Still, a pretty amazing
feat.
>
>
> On Monday, January 18, 2016, Chuck McCown <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> He stuck the landing, but only to have a latch on a leg
fail.... arrgh..
>> Look at how close it is to the center of the target:
>>
>>
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/18/elon_musk_spacex_rocket_explodes_during_attempted_sea_landing.html
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