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who cares... they did it and it didn't burn up or destroy the platform. rest is just nitpicking



> who cares...

I bet SpaceX does. They've solved the big problems, now it's time to solve the small problems and make reuse a reality.


Isn’t this a forum of hackers caring about the news? Everyone seems excited here and that excitement naturally leads into curiosity for many who identify as hackers.


Outside of maybe Boeing "who cares..." isn't a valid answer in engineering.


It's a prototype.


That's why it's not a catastrophe that something was unexpectedly on fire, not a reason to dismiss the question.


So the whole purpose of it is to identify issues to be resolved.


How about you let people be happy 30min for a while before you do the 'but actually' routine?


Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


It's an interesting engineering question, not a slight.

Obviously the primary mission was successful, in spite of anomalies (good system design!), but people are and should be curious about this aspect.


There’s a bunch of people crapping on you who clearly haven’t been through a flight test campaigns.

100% with you. The teams I’ve worked with would be celebrating and trying to figure out what’s burning at the same time. And especially trying to figure out if there’s anything that they need to do to collect evidence for that investigation (eg zooming the remote PTZ cameras in on specific areas or things like that)


Just to be clear, I never suggest that the teams actually working on this wouldn't look into it. I was talking about people who were watching and were happy.




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