https://nitter.1d4.us/Dexerto/status/1649045659511554049

  • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The Falcon rockets are reusable unlike the older rockets

    They probably failed at getting a lot of flight data but it is better to not test prototypes like Blue Origin? Will the New Glenn end up better? I think it would still have better data than just doing simulations

    The bad thing to me is that the launches, whentether successful or not, are environmentaly damaging

    • Soot [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It's not about not testing prototypes, it's about doing your proper precautionary checks, research and initial engineering so that you don't pointlessly blow up rockets. Yes, sometimes things will go wrong whatever you do, but that should be limited only to stuff that could not have been reasonably foreseen, and after so many failures it's obvious that this is not the only kind of cause.