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>It flew over huge areas of empty fields, it certainly isn't safety. Ok, but having it drop into water should increase the chance to retrieve less damaged part
by jcynix 4y ago
>It flew over huge areas of empty fields, it certainly isn't safety.
Ok, but having it drop into water should increase the chance to retrieve less damaged parts to investigate then. I'd call this thoughtful, not indecivise.
- cm2187 4y agoWater will behave like concrete to an object of the size and weight of a car dropping at high speed (which seems to be the payload minus the solar panels). You can just see what happened to planes that crashed into water head on. And they are claiming it was for safety purposes.
- xattt 4y agoPictures from the ground showed structures like solar panels. If anything, the panels would act as sails and slow the fall and impact into the water.
- cm2187 4y agoEven if they had the strength, it would rotate to minimize air resistance.
- sandworm101 4y agoIf it was built as a balloon, none of those panels have any structure to support significant wind loading (balloons above 40k feet feel zero appreciable wind). They would come apart like confetti a few seconds into free fall.