parachutes

The future is airplanes that have parachutes (for the plane itself).

The comment that mentioned parachutes was talking about how a drone crashed at an event and almost injured people.

Because if the parachutes deploy accidentally, it could result in launch failure, so it's something they have to be careful about.

I agree that this is better than parachutes, but not because of the cost of the plane.

If only it was possible to deploy the parachutes during launch we could've hypothetically saved the payload.

You safe the parachutes for the ascent phase because they're dangerous.

Yes, it seems likely that the capsule and at least some of the contents could have survived if they had opened the parachutes on descent.

> Lastly, in America, corrupt CEOs get send to jail In America corrupt CEOs usually get golden parachutes.

Falcon 9 first stage it too heavy to catch mid air, and using parachute isn't viable trade off because the required parachutes will be too heavy.

You cannot see or hear them until their parachutes open.

I think (unsubstantiated as well) that less parachutes are being given out to employees this time around, and VCs have gotten smarter.

(2) The Dragon capsule could have been saved if it'd had the right software (which would deploy the parachutes).

I even suppose that parachutes or stability with 1-2 engines lost might not be "mandatory".

Since it's Boise, I'll put money on these guys being either former HP or Micron employees that probably got their memristor IP as part of their golden parachutes now that "The Machine" is gone.

I can see the surfing point, I can see the parachutes pulled by speedboats, just a distraction and increases the desire to be "there" and not staring at a screen trying to fix bugs.

Parachutes are not a good idea because of how rockets are built.