Comment on Wake up sheeple

1dalm@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• quips@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Including the soyuz which to this day routinely lands on land

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  • Spezi@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But the landing needs active thrusters to soften the blow. This introduces more complexity and also adds more danger as there needs to be extra fuel on board.

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    • j5y7@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And extra weight I imagine, making it more expensive to launch.

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      • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Correct. It’s not that they can’t, they save tens of millions by landing in the water on fuel alone. Not only to land but to leave. The extra fuel increases the weight which increases the overall fuel cost on launch.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the space shuttle which did it for decades

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