The nasa broadcaster called it a perfect bullseye landing about 5 times. A perfect bullseye, hit em right in the Pacific ocean.

Bullseye

Bonus: You pee into the water and the fish have to just be there. Because fuck fish.

I think she's saying 'pay attention' because she is used to people drifting off mid-sentence

You can't easily go out to see a splashdown in the middle of the ocean, therefore space travel is fake.

She probably assumes the landing location is entirely random, which is ridiculous to anyone who has even the slightest understanding of the amount of planning needed for space travel, but those people and the people who believe space travel is fake are not the same people.

They say Arthemis landed on EARTH, but it actually landed on WATER (no earth far and wide). If they lie about something so obvious, what else are they lying about??

For a while (maybe still) Russian rockets even had a shotgun on board after wolves got to a landing first.

The Russian system has a braking rocket that fires at the very last second to soften up the landing. On one early Soyuz mission, this rocket didn't fire, and the solo cosmonaut suffered substantial injuries from the landing.

The Orion capsule hits the water at the final parachute speed of 20-30 mph without injuring the crew. But as you state, they also have to design the capsule for flotation and egress in potentially rough sea state.

Boeing Starliner is designed for a land landing, but it uses deployable air bags instead of a braking rocket. It's not clear that Starliner will ever fly again after the RCS thruster problems.

I listened to Chris Hadfield describe coming home in a Soyuz capsul and it rolling a few times after hitting the ground. Land works but water sounds more comfortable, as long as you don't get sea sick on top of it all.

Imagine surviving a whole ass moon flight just to perish at sea because no one comes to get you..

Both approaches have technical challenges. Returning to land requires a slower landing speed (although as a percentage of the starting velocity of a spacecraft its a pretty insignificant difference) and landing on the sea requires the carrying of flotation devices and designing a capsule with buoyancy in mind.

Does landing on the sea really require that much more braking when compared to land? Sure water has some give but I've always understood that, from a large enough hight, due to surface tension landing on water is the same as landing on concrete. But I ain't no physicist and by no means of the imagination a rocket scientist so I might as well be very wrong here lmao

yes the post may be inaccurate but i doubt the dumbass they were responding to could have even read HALF of your comment

I mean, people do that occasionally, but for completely different reasons.

You made me burst out laughing.

wasn't woke used as a slang for denoting good things in the past?

I have had the displeasure of knowing several people like this. In the post-truth landscape we find ourselves, there are really people out there who will call your denial of their alternative facts "unscientific" because they think that science is just about questioning everything, and they know their perspective is the right one.

Therefore, when their high school science teacher (who obviously hated them in particular for their good Christian beliefs) insists on ideas like the Earth being round, or the existence of climate change or—heavens forbid—evolution, she's obviously just trying to brainwash her students to believe her liberal agenda.

It's not just Americanas. Many prominent flat Earthers come out of England.

Seems a bit harsh, and I agree!

The ocean is flat

This mission especially brought the "space travel is fake" crowd out. The rocket launch explodes over a deserted area, nobody's onboard, all the missions are faked, and the splashdowns are in restricted waters to sell the simulation.

Usually this is on top of "well you can't survive the Van Allen radiation belts", as if radiation safety and shielding is not a problem we understood and solved before we even lit off Mercury.

Ultimate reasoning for it is either a vague notion of "control", bread and circuses, or "they do this to defy God", because space isn't real and the Firmament lies above the sky.

Including the soyuz which to this day routinely lands on land

Yes, because the area gets a no-fly zone and navy ships go to get the capsule, it makes it "easy" to fake because the government controls the situation. Yes, this ignores a lot of other independently verifiable data, because that doesn't confirm biases. Yes, it ignores all the Soyuz landings over land. Yes, it ignores the facts that the Soviets and Russians do and did the same thing, as if a highly-planned re-entry might just happen in anyone's rye field. Yes, it's stupid. Yes, it's on purpose.

They did have to give them a special gun so they weren't killed by bears though.

This was because they had rockets that fired precipitously close to the ground which cushioned the landing to something like 20 mph IIRC. If those rockets failed for any reason there would be a very big splat.

At an altitude of eight meters, the "Posadka" (landing) signal lights up on the cosmonauts' console and at an altitude between 1.1 and 0.8 meters from Earth, the Kaktus altimeter issues a command for the firing of the braking solid motors, DMP. The spectacular firing takes place around 0.7 meters above the surface, reducing the descent speed of the capsule to between 0 and 3 meters per second. A speed of 2 or 1.5 meters per second is considered average at the touchdown point. The structural loads on the capsule at the moment of DMP firing was quoted as 0.1 kilograms. These loads were reported to be the main reason for ruling out the reuse of the Descent Module.

In case of landing under a spare parachute, the descent speed could reach as high as 9.5 or even 10.5 meters per second, but it is still considered to be survivable by the crew.

Some additional cushioning at touchdown is provided by individual crew seats, known as Kazbek (Kazbek-UM on Soyuz TMA) equipped with custom-fitted liners for each crew member. As a last resort, the bottom of the capsule also designed to absorb the shock of a particularly bad impact. https://russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-landing.html

Well, the Russians had a sea, but they emptied it. So land it is.

Space shuttle says hold my beer I got this

In light mode, too!