[rohan_]

> Like so what. Fist, when your engineering philosophy causes collateral damage (debris, damaged property) then other people do not have to accept it with "oh, therefore it is cool".

What collateral damage? Didn't the whole thing burn up on re-entry? Do you know how much meteorite material burns up in the earth's atmosphere every day?

> And second, avoidable failure is still avoidable failure.

huh? we're talking about risk profile and development velocity