Pray, tell me what this stupid bastard, funded by NASA with billions of dough, is trying to achieve?
http://news.yahoo.com/spacex-tries-again-launch-space-station-groceries-154114048.html
In another report on the inevitable Musk is quoted as saying the “the bloody thing landed OK, then just tipped over and …” the obvious result.
The experiments to land the rocket on a platform in the ocean seems a noble one because it can be rewired or whatever and they can use it again, thus reducing overall expenditure.
What I don’t understand is that they keep on shooting the stuff up into the skies. What on earth for? Oh well, the answer is simple, it is not for on earth or the benefit of anything on earth.
Science badly gone awry; ego of mankind is so great and the poor must pay to maintain the silly efforts.