Comment on A celebration of survival

JackLSauce@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean crashing technically counts as a landing. We can use the rocketry term lithobraking to make it sound better.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rapid unscheduled landing, as spacex would describe it

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  • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boeing Engineers are sketching their new planes in Kerbal Space Program

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What is your “technical” definition of “landing”?

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    • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On the ground in sone form. Successful needs the modifier.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quite a few have hydrobraked

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• Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any landing where you can walk away from the plane is a good landing.

  Any landing where you can reuse the plane is a great landing.

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• SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are more planes in the sea than there are boats in the air. Thibk about it.

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  • clark@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love this comment. Please don’t fix the typo.

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  some land harder than others

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• phorq@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly, unlike hot air balloons (R.I.P. Moody’s Mom)

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• kusivittula@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  maybe should clap when it successfully takes off without anything falling off

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