On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:21:37 -0700, Larry Jaques wrote:

No, they did not take Elon Musk up on it. Nor would I have, were I in
charge. The air safety crowd that does investigations is very good at
this stuff, and bone-crushingly thorough. SpaceX simply hasn't the
throw weight to compete.

So thorough that it passed right by them the first time. Hasn't he
already blown the doors off previously NASA-only records in numerous
events? That's weight to me. shrug

Doing something astonishing is different than doing something safe.

Safe is boring. Crashes, exploding airplanes, and in-air fires are
astonishing.

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