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Elon Musk is succeeding in his ambition to make space launches boringly reliable, but it still understands that people like to watch things blowing up. To that end, SpaceX has released a video entitled "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster," showing footage of all the times its rockets didn't quite make the grade. …

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    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      Re: Fix Earth's Climate Using Terraforming Instead of Seeking Escape!

      Doesn't do you much good if you are hit by an asteroid

      1. Trilkhai

        Re: Fix Earth's Climate Using Terraforming Instead of Seeking Escape!

        A rocket/orbiter/spaceship won't do us any good if Earth happened to be hit by an asteroid, either. At best that might get the richest people off the planet, but wouldn't protect even a fraction of a percent of Earth's flora & fauna, and the human survivors would have the prospect of spending their remaining days on a planet that makes Earth's most barren desert look like the freaking rainforest by comparison.

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        1. Twist Rolarian

          Re: Fix Earth's Climate Using Terraforming Instead of Seeking Escape!

          "Risk is our business." - Jim Kirk

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "the video shows that someone in the editing suite has a sense of humor"

    Elon confirmed on Twitter that he (personally) edited "most of it"

    https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/908254645809692672

  2. kbutler.toledo

    SpaceX & The Pythonesque

    wink, wink ... nudge, nudge

  3. annodomini2

    Perfect example...

    Of the following:

    "The path to Success is always beset with failure!"

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