Truth. But this crowd is a "tough audience".
Dave
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On Sep 1, 2016, at 4:05 PM, Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016, Jonathan Goff wrote:
The odds of finding out what happened are slightly better for a pad failure,
where although the metal will be melted and shredded, you might just get
more data back than when something fails out over the ocean.
Which is why one of the standard accident-investigation techniques is to
collect *all* the pieces and more or less reassemble them in a hangar. The
patterns in the debris can tell you a lot.
There is admittedly the question of whether anybody outside SpaceX will get
to hear the answers.
Henry
