Yeah. The entire article seems weird. It also has this: > the natural instability that occurs when a landing pad floating in the ocean has a very heavy rocket

Yeah. The entire article seems weird. It also has this: > the natural instability that occurs when a landing pad floating in the ocean has a very heavy rocket land on top of it has led to a series of near-misses for the technology. But the two landing failures were due to running out of hydraulic fluid, and to a flight control instability; the landing pad had nothing to do with it.