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    1. I understand that SpaceX's development strategy is incremental success while wrecking many inexpensive prototypes, but… @guardianscience/1367302030566379523
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    They will have to compensate for these explosions with a LOT of faultless flying to get their empirical failure rate down to acceptable levels for human spaceflight.
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      I mean these are the people whose long-term business plan is: sell your home and fly with us to Mars. That plan cannot survive a 1% risk of death on impact.
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        "Move fast and break things" and "passenger spaceflight" may be incompatible concepts.
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          Supposing that 37% gravity, high surface wind, subzero temperatures, and a different atmospheric composition are relevant variables, how exactly does one apply this approach to landing on Mars? By sending a dozen prototypes?
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