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SpaceX Plans Drone Ship Landing On January 17th (nbcnews.com)
Rei writes: With the world's first successful low-speed landing of an orbital rocket's first stage complete, SpaceX looks to continue that success by attempting its second landing — this time, on their new drone ship in the Pacific. While SpaceX has announced plans to turn their successfully-landed rocket, reportedly flight-ready, into a a museum piece, the stage they recover next may be SpaceX's first chance to prove the mudslinging of their competitors wrong and show that Russia's worries are well founded. That is, if they can successfully pull it off.
Submitter here. I actually tried to come up with a better word but couldn't. They're really "slinging" doubt, but "doubtslinging" isn't a word. I thought of "FUD", but that implies a point of view, that the other side is deliberately trying to scare people off with misinformation, and that would be taking things too far.
Some of you with better English language skills than I can surely come up with better phrasing that's not overly wordy.
He's the sort of person who would sell the Red Cross to Dracula.
All we really know is that it landed. We don't know how flight ready it was for another launch, I imagine neither did SpaceX. So this first one I don't think they had any other choice but to strip it completely apart and test everything and then putting it all back together might not make sense. Next landing they probably know what needs replacing and can relaunch the rest. Makes sense to me at least.
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They're really "slinging" doubt, but "doubtslinging" isn't a word. I thought of "FUD", but that implies a point of view
FUDslinging would actually be a pretty scrumtrulescent word.
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