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Turns out the landing was not as fast we thought, but still hard enough to destroy the primary airframe and accordion the engines

@fucktyler Thanks Tyler

@fucktyler Thanks Tyler

Landing video will be posted when we gain access to cameras on the droneship later today. Maybe hardest impact to date. Droneship still ok.

Y ahora me doy cuenta de que no era tan especial para ti, como tu lo eras para mí.

Upgrades underway to enable rocket to compensate for a thrust shortfall on one of the three landing engines. Probably get there end of year.

@AstroOrionMK @BadAstronomer Quite rapid... Yes

@AstroOrionMK @BadAstronomer Quite rapid... Yes

RUD = Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly :)

근데 17일이면 금요일이잖아 내일이네 헐ㄹ

Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max.

Looks like thrust was low on 1 of 3 landing engines. High g landings v sensitive to all engines operating at max.

Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship

Ascent phase & satellites look good, but booster rocket had a RUD on droneship

Highly recommend anything by Sean Carroll https://t.co/yVbceZm0Io

Highly recommend anything by Sean Carroll https://t.co/yVbceZm0Io

@seanmcarroll Am concerned that advanced life may be inherently unstable. Arguably, any civ capable of extinguishing itself eventually will.

@seanmcarroll Life you can talk to is another matter, of course. Many, many orders of magnitude less likely.

@seanmcarroll No way. Look at chemotrophs and extremophiles. Primitive life is bloody everywhere. Highly under the ice on Europa imo.

@spoite @rsmoz Hence the urgency of making life as we know it multiplanetary as soon as possible