Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups: sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science,sci.astro
Subject: Re: Attempt at a return to launch site landing by SpaceX.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:15:10 +1100
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <ddspluFb01jU2@mid.individual.net>
References: <n59h0i$47r$2@dont-email.me> <n5agho$h0h$1@dont-email.me> <V1aey.26993$Gc6.11018@fx08.iad>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net cl72InKd9MdkHYZDCXppxwpxi/W4tkKQjUrcr4CyGQSZavRyiY
Cancel-Lock: sha1:5tvrtMbH1bO5NXEId/mKc9HFZzo=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0
In-Reply-To: <V1aey.26993$Gc6.11018@fx08.iad>
Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:540784 rec.arts.sf.science:24046 sci.astro:57543

On 22/12/2015 9:59 PM, benj wrote:
> On 12/21/2015 10:37 PM, Rick Pikul/Chakat Firepaw wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 13:42:02 -0500, Robert Clark wrote:
>>
>>> Launch with an attempt at a return-to-launch-site landing pushed back to
>>> today, Monday evening:
>>
>> An update, since no one seems to have posted it, (in ras.science at
>> least):
>>
>> The landing was successful and the crowd at SpaceX went nuts.
>
> This is a HUGE advance for science!

Huh?

This is engineering, not science.

Clearly, it's good engineering. But it's still not science.

Sylvia.