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Old June 19th 18, 03:39 AM posted to sci.astro,sci.physics,sci.space.policy
Fred J. McCall[_3_]
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Default Towards routine, reusable space launch.

JF Mezei wrote on Mon, 18 Jun 2018
14:27:11 -0400:

On 2018-06-18 03:05, Fred J. McCall wrote:

You also claimed that what they built and tested wasn't representative
of what they intend to build as a final article and fly, which is just
a stupid assertion.


I did no such thing. I claimed that it was not necessarily what the
final would be because during testing, they discovery problems that
require changes.


Of course you did. You said that they built their test tank out of
existing resins using existing processes but that would not be what
they built the 'real' tank using.



Just because they only told you about two tests doesn't mean they
didn't do any others.


And just because of that, you can't claim they performed those tests
succesfully either.

My point is that you can't claim "mission accomplished" on those tanks
just because of 2 tests that SpaceX chose to make public.


They've made more than two of them public. Your perpetual
underinformed state is your personal problem.


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