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ICYMI – We’re Landing Rockets At Sea

Monday, 11 April 2016, 0:59 BFH Uncategorized 11

Unreal.

This looks like footage from an old Thunderbirds show.

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11 Comments on ICYMI – We’re Landing Rockets At Sea

  1. Okay, now tip one with a nuke and land it on Kim Jung’s outhouse and set it off while simultaneously doing the same thing to Mecca during their “pilgrimage”.

    Impress me with something that begins to border on the practical.

  6. @TSUNAMI – Putting communications satellites into orbit for a lot less money because you can re-use the first stage rocket seems very practical to me.

    @Dan K – Plenty of evidence it wasn’t faked, including the observation that the same rocket that took off from land, and which otherwise would have been destroyed, appeared a short time later standing on a platform at sea.

    @DaveVA – The seas were indeed rolling. This was open ocean, with more-or-less normal swells. If you look at the video you’ll see the deck rising and falling through what looks to me to be four to six feet. But I could be wrong – I’ve never calibrated my eyeballs for that particular measurement task!

  8. To send a rocket into space, bring it back to a tiny barge on the world’s ocean AND THEN TO PARK IT UPRIGHT!! Truly AMAZING!
    Congratulations to all for their persisting work!

  9. This is what private enterprise can do for a hundredth the cost of a vast bureaucracy like NASA, which won’t be able to achieve this for maybe decades without stealing it (and giving mooslums the credit). Megakudos to these people and I hope they milk it for every bit of profit they can.

    When I was a boy, I assumed progress would continue at the same rate and that I’d have a chance to go to space myself some day. Sadly, even with these advancements I know it’ll never happen for me, but my grandchildren will get the chance… so long as the government stays out of the way.

  11. Uncle Al,

    The Earth was a much safer and private place before we had all these communications satellites. All they seem to do is make our planet smaller and smaller.

    I’m not convinced that more is always better.

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