I’d also question how precise they can realistically be with the landing, especially once the parachutes deploy.
Funny thing about the ocean, there’s a lot less buildings and people for you to fall on.
Particular-Cow6247 on
do they disrupt the water surface before it lands? otherwise water can also be very very hard 😅
hesmistersun on
Ever tried to do the high dive into an empty pool?
Hjalle1 on
That right there is even faulty. The USSR landed their manned capsules in Siberia, and I’m pretty sure the Soyuz is still doing that
No_Entertainment6792 on
depending on the speed and contact surface water can very hard to land on but I imagine land is always hard so…
538_Jean on
Not always.
Soyuz lands in the desert pretty much all the time.
Ocean : no one lives there, no one gets crushed by bad Maths, hard to miss.
Desert : same but smaller.
Flairion623 on
Russia would disagree. Though to be fair many of their reentries were kinda violent
Bowman_van_Oort on
The soyuz capsules land on land and they require retrorockets to “soften” that landing.
*welcome back from microgravity, dipshits; how do you like the feeling of a pretty good fender-bender?*
Terra_reddit on
Thats like saying they never use lighter fluid but only ever rocket fuel… PAY ATTENTION
Eastern_Funny9319 on
Soyuz, Starliner, the Space Shuttle, that very same spacecraft (Orion) during early planning, DreamChaser, and multiple others were did, planned to, or plan to land on land.
HopeSubstantial on
Except this is not main reason.
Main reason is that in case someone had decimal error on calculations or malfuntion, they want the module to crash somewhere where it’s still safe within error margins.
No one wants such module to crash to apartment building.
realultralord on
Water doesn’t scratch the hull as much on impact. That’s beneficial if you want to see only the damages reentry has done to the heat shield in order to improve it further.
That’s also why they always have divers take some photos of it from underneath before they lift it onto a boat.
Keep in mind that spaceships are mostly experimental as you can’t test hypersonic reentry speeds of that scale in a lab.
homelessjimbo on
Ah always refreshing to see comments breaking it down barney style xD
rydan on
Except that’s not true. If you slam into water it is like slamming into a brick wall. Why do you think people kill themselves jumping off bridges into water? If water was just boing boing nothing would happen other than a possible drowning.
Mr_Lumbergh on
The Russians generally land on land instead of water. If the chute does its job, you’re fine either way. If it doesn’t, you’re not fine either way.
Extreme-Weight989 on
I love how humans rely on asking other humans before taking 10 seconds to think things out themselves.
We’re done as a society.
HowardBateman on
People are so incredibly dumb these days… Growing up with YouTube tutorials stopped them from thinking for themselves.
One-Earth9294 on
It’s not that land is hard but land tends to have a lot of irregularities like trees and power lines and buildings and those things aren’t laser-guided to the earth’s surface.
The ocean is just water, water everywhere. You would have a hard time just missing ‘water’.
SillyCycle9701 on
Elon Musk: hold my beer
DiskPartition on
Starliner does it on land to, as do the (unmanned) Falcon and Starship vehicles which are even more impressive
PhysicalConsistency on
This thread is like a bunch of AI bots hallucinate answers that seem correct.
fade2black244 on
It’s also the fact that water covers the majority of the Earth’s surface.
slotsandmops on
Why not
rayadolokko on
The Russians land on the ground.
JasonsPizza on
Wait what is the conspiracy theory that I need to be paying attention to here? Why is it an issue to only land in water?
Few_Ad_5119 on
“Everything is a conspiracy when you are too stupid to know how anything works”
Late_World5547 on
Also the fact that the Earth’s surface is mostly covered by water, not land.
Educational_Sky_6073 on
I seem to remember there was a period of about 30 years where they not only landed on land but also got to launch more than once.
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I’d also question how precise they can realistically be with the landing, especially once the parachutes deploy.
Funny thing about the ocean, there’s a lot less buildings and people for you to fall on.
do they disrupt the water surface before it lands? otherwise water can also be very very hard 😅
Ever tried to do the high dive into an empty pool?
That right there is even faulty. The USSR landed their manned capsules in Siberia, and I’m pretty sure the Soyuz is still doing that
depending on the speed and contact surface water can very hard to land on but I imagine land is always hard so…
Not always.
Soyuz lands in the desert pretty much all the time.
Ocean : no one lives there, no one gets crushed by bad Maths, hard to miss.
Desert : same but smaller.
Russia would disagree. Though to be fair many of their reentries were kinda violent
The soyuz capsules land on land and they require retrorockets to “soften” that landing.
*welcome back from microgravity, dipshits; how do you like the feeling of a pretty good fender-bender?*
Thats like saying they never use lighter fluid but only ever rocket fuel… PAY ATTENTION
Soyuz, Starliner, the Space Shuttle, that very same spacecraft (Orion) during early planning, DreamChaser, and multiple others were did, planned to, or plan to land on land.
Except this is not main reason.
Main reason is that in case someone had decimal error on calculations or malfuntion, they want the module to crash somewhere where it’s still safe within error margins.
No one wants such module to crash to apartment building.
Water doesn’t scratch the hull as much on impact. That’s beneficial if you want to see only the damages reentry has done to the heat shield in order to improve it further.
That’s also why they always have divers take some photos of it from underneath before they lift it onto a boat.
Keep in mind that spaceships are mostly experimental as you can’t test hypersonic reentry speeds of that scale in a lab.
Ah always refreshing to see comments breaking it down barney style xD
Except that’s not true. If you slam into water it is like slamming into a brick wall. Why do you think people kill themselves jumping off bridges into water? If water was just boing boing nothing would happen other than a possible drowning.
The Russians generally land on land instead of water. If the chute does its job, you’re fine either way. If it doesn’t, you’re not fine either way.
I love how humans rely on asking other humans before taking 10 seconds to think things out themselves.
We’re done as a society.
People are so incredibly dumb these days… Growing up with YouTube tutorials stopped them from thinking for themselves.
It’s not that land is hard but land tends to have a lot of irregularities like trees and power lines and buildings and those things aren’t laser-guided to the earth’s surface.
The ocean is just water, water everywhere. You would have a hard time just missing ‘water’.
Elon Musk: hold my beer
Starliner does it on land to, as do the (unmanned) Falcon and Starship vehicles which are even more impressive
This thread is like a bunch of AI bots hallucinate answers that seem correct.
It’s also the fact that water covers the majority of the Earth’s surface.
Why not
The Russians land on the ground.
Wait what is the conspiracy theory that I need to be paying attention to here? Why is it an issue to only land in water?
“Everything is a conspiracy when you are too stupid to know how anything works”
Also the fact that the Earth’s surface is mostly covered by water, not land.
I seem to remember there was a period of about 30 years where they not only landed on land but also got to launch more than once.
I guess they never saw the space shuttle?