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<p>Here's a little more detail about the 'catch'. Maybe an excess
fuel bleedoff or something...</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/2024 8:09 PM, Jeff Hayas
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.
All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.
You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...
For great justice.
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 at
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Definitely
impressive. I only wish the youtube video had explained
all the flames coming out the side of the rocket.</div>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">And can you
imagine the heat blast that the pad below the rocket has
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>What happens
if the booster gets a bit off-kilter as it's being
snagged and the engines point at the base of the tower
for a second or so??</b></div>
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<div><b>Perhaps the Space-X bean-counters said "We'll fix that
in the field." </b><br>
( But probably not. They seem to be quite good at continuous
rapid prototyping with constant design changes to improve
performance and reliability. )</div>
<div>Also, Space-X is NOT a publicly traded company, and thus
they have no incentive to <i>"cut costs to boost the stock
price". </i></div>
<div>Too bad the rest of American corporations don't operate
the same way.</div>
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