[me_me_me]

ummm... someone is trying really hard to be a smartass and making himself looking like an ass.

> unceremoniously dumped in the Atlantic Ocean.

It wasnt ' unceremoniously dumped in the Atlantic Ocean' it was crashed into a designated area. Ensuring no, dmg to any property boat or people. They dont crash anything randomly somewhere in the ocean.

[philwelch]

“Crashed” and “dumped” are broadly synonymous when one is crashing or dumping a solid object into the sea, and while the spent rockets may be precisely or even painstakingly dumped into a particular designated area of the sea, that does not necessarily imply that such dumping and/or crashing is what either of us would call “ceremonious”.

And I’m sure you would agree that however precise or painstaking those dumpings/crashings may be, they are certainly no more precise or painstaking than SpaceX’s recovery attempts, which are likewise designed to endanger only the SpaceX unmanned drone ship itself. So this is hardly sufficient to explain why a failed landing attempt is somehow more worthy of governmental scrutiny than not even making the attempt in the first place.

[me_me_me]

funny how you still double down, and trying to use grammar to not admit being wrong, and absolutely not addressing the point i made.

Only to prove you my point.

Its really simple, spaceX wanted to land but crashed, hmm this could have been dangerous.

Any other rocket, we will crash land in this part of ocean at this time. And crash at the designated area at the designated time - all according to plan no people should be there.

[philwelch]

What you’re missing is that the landing zone for SpaceX booster stages is also cleared of marine traffic.

[me_me_me]

christ on a stick. Its like talking to a wind up toy.

Their plan was not to land anywhere in the world, duh.

Their plan was to land in designated area, but the landing failed. This could have endangered lives. Investigation is to ensure no one was at risk and contingency was in place.

Why is this so hard?

[philwelch]

The Falcon 9 booster fell into the ocean well inside of a designated area clear of marine traffic, other than the unmanned drone ship it attempted to land on. No lives were endangered. The only thing that went wrong is that it didn’t stick the landing on the drone ship, but that’s not a safety issue since the booster still came down inside the designated area.

[me_me_me]

it looks like you are resistant to simple facts. Please go away.