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		pishpash on July 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A drug for smallpox has been approved, even though... Retrorockets and landing backwards have been around (e.g. the Apollo lunar module). The rockets landing backwards thing is hard for a different reason among many other things, namely the inverted pendulum problem.

duxup on July 21, 2018 [–]

I get what you're saying but... the first part is obviously not what I was saying ;)

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