The barge MUST talk, if it didn’t, the rocket would only go the point on GPS. If the barge has to move 20 feet in any different direction, it would have no way of telling the rocket the new location.

“The drone ships are capable of maneuvering autonomously, using GPS information for precision positioning, but they can also be remotely controlled by an accompanying support ship with a crew of technicians standing by.

The crazy thing is, it actually doesn’t take that much more fuel when the rocket is mostly empty and has no payload. If you designed a rocket with a parachute and beefed up structure to absorb the impact, it would actually weigh more than the extra fuel used by the Falcon 9.

Not true. I know a group that lived for years on an island after being stranded. Check your facts, dude...

Stuck on a tropical island for three days. Why can’t anything that good happen to ME?

They have been using grid fins for quite a while.

Please tell me it wasn’t an XJ. #SavetheXJs

Watch out - you’ll take him from his “safe space!”

They SHOULD have been shot multiple times after busting through a gate and onto a flight line. Unfortunately, the base’s security was obviously lax, because they “just don’t think it can happen here.”

Don’t play if you’re not ready to pay.....

Best outcome - too bad about the damage to the plane. With any luck, it’s just a couple of head-sized dents.

You’re absolutely correct that it’s not an absolute value. Of the 7 billion humans on Earth, most are worth far less than $6 million.

I remember how when I was a teen I was always getting into police trouble, and how I’d always seem to get the heavy-handed treatment even though I was the one doing the least of whatever we were being busted for. And I used to feel SO put upon because of it, until I realized people who didn’t hang out with the people…

Innocent until proven guilty isn’t the issue.

Yes, it was a tragic loss of a Jeep too.

What the hell are you talking about? The guy friggin killed himself, and his passenger (which is a crime itself) by crashing into a jet on a flight line on a military base after eluding police and driving the wrong way on the road.

Let’s see,

There is a legal principle known as “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.

You are responsible for putting yourself in that situation in the first place. Did the female passenger deserve to die? No, but car chases put people who have absolutely nothing to do with the driver at risk. The woman made a choice to be in the vehicle with someone who put others at risk. She is an adult. She was…

Where the heck is Tyler?