Unseen,
That is impressive, but if a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) rocket were to go to the Moon, to the Asteroids, or to other Planets besides Earth, the surface would have to be at least as flat, level, and stable as the drone ship shown in the video.
In Geometry, we learn that there is no perfect straight line, perfect circle, or perfectly smooth surface in the empirically-sensed world, only in abstraction. Therefore, any extraterrestrial surface for a VTOL rocket would have to be pre-constructed, either by us or by other intelligent beings. There’s no evidence yet of the latter, so building the surface is up to us and the crafts we use to get there will have to be more like previous landing probes used in Apollo, Viking, and other programs.
VTOL aircraft are very successful, but mostly because they run parallel to the ground and/or have broadly-spread landing gear. Thus these aircraft have a greater foundation for landing that isn’t as dependent on the ground surface. Perhaps that is the best way to go with VTOL rockets.
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TheEncogitationer. Reason: No perfect spelling with nubby fingers either
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This reply was modified 3 weeks, 6 days ago by
TheEncogitationer.