SpaceX rocket explodes during landing - BBC News

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1. it needs better legs
2. I once heard someone say SpaceX is a major failure of a company for letting this specific event happen. What a load of shit lmao
   
   Mistakes happen, they're there to be learned from, SpaceX allows for mistakes to happen, unlike the government does for NASA (funnily, NASA's mistakes result in deaths).
   This is what happens when a bunch of bright individuals, in a relaxed environment, without limitations to creativity and thinking outside the box, get together. They get shit done, they make progress, they make groundbreaking advances in rocket technology. Contrary to NASA, a bunch of equally bright individuals, forced to be formal and uptight and huge restrictions on creativity and are forced to think inside the box, with the government peeking over your shoulders and cutting off all funding. Why does our government not understand the importance and usefulness of proper funding for NASA? Allow them to make mistakes, let them be comfortable in the work environment, let them be creative. That is not a waste of time and money, that's what gets shit done.
3. goddamn nazi technology!
4. Friggin' thing did exactly what my Estes rocket did when I tried to drop it on its fins from a few inches up.
5. I know this was caused by the landing leg, but why don't they land on actual land, instead of barges that bob around in the ocean? The landing on land was the only landing that was successful. A coincidence? Probably. But landing on something that doesn't move around under you isn't gunna hurt things.
6. For that size of rocket you need much larger landing gear and wider and father up and add some kind of struts to spread the load and stabilize better.
   
   That thing was designed to fail.
7. This concept & design to bound to fail; highly unstable!!
8. Poor Elon, but I bet he's going to conquer mars
9. that was awesome
10. This technology is so new its going to be some time before they perfect it that's just part of inventing new technology when planes got invented there was 1000s of crash's and even 100+ years on we still get the odd fail, so no big deal here at lest hes now bringing the rockets back, right
11. Notice the camera does not show the top of the rocket as that would give the game away with the wire holding it up from the crane.
12. they should have 8 fins instead of 3
13. me with my enourmous head trying to walk as a baby (oh i got it! wait no no no no!)*falls on face
14. In slow motion, if you go frame by frame, you can see it explodes before it falls over completely. I wonder if it would have still exploded if it landed like it were suppose to or if it was indeed from falling over that made it explode...
15. 50 million of investments burst into fire in 5sec
16. More legs that weigh less and can support the same weight overall. I'm sure that has already been considered though.
17. But it was going so well.
18. that's one of the reasons holbert went with lunar orbit rendezvous.
19. First time using a predator missile