[ExI] spacex landing on boat

[Adrian Tymes]

With space technology, it seems, most people assume a thing is impossible
until it is done, no matter how theoretically easy it should be.

It seems that even a new type of nut and bolt won't be trusted to work in
space until it has been demonstrated in space, even if there are literally
zero applicable space-specific factors that might call into question the
relevance of a ground demonstration.  (A nut and bolt doesn't care about
zero gravity, radiation, or vacuum.)

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:32 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> I share this Twitter user’s attitude about how cool this is, but disagree
> with his comment on impossible.  It was generally agreed by about the late
> 1990s that it is possible to land a rocket feet first.
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> https://twitter.com/i/status/1343959265988411394
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> spike
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