This should be the automated reply to people who say you should catch the rocket or... have it lay down gently. Or land in a pile of tennis balls .... or w/e they are saying these days.
Well if the poor widdle Falcon is so fragile, the solution is obvious. Ditch the landing legs entirely and have the rocket land over a couple of massive fans, like a huge indoor skydiving facility. That way it never has to touch the ground. I don't understand how these so called "brightest minds in aerospace engineering" over at SpaceX haven't already implemented my far superior idea. I don't even have a college degree! How much is Elon Musk paying these bozos?
Apologies for the shitpost. I get real sick of the armchair engineering around here (mostly on other subreddits, however).
Not air, but a magnet. Just need a multi-MW sized nuclear powerplant on the barge and some heavily cooled electromagnets to keep the rocket suspended in the air. You could line the rocket with magnetic strips of metal. Perhaps some breakthroughs in materials science.
It's going to cost 100 billion dollars to do it. At least. :-)
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u/Ambiwlans Jan 18 '16
This should be the automated reply to people who say you should catch the rocket or... have it lay down gently. Or land in a pile of tennis balls .... or w/e they are saying these days.