Throughout history, the best physics breakthroughs were by loonies.
I know through a personal contact about the total loonieness. He wanted the rocket to resemble tin-tin or buck rogers. Thus, we have many iterations with stainless steel because it is shiny. The originals tried to have the tightened end, but that was impossible. Now we have this horrible thing.
If we followed rationality, then it would be a straight carbon-fiber wrap. But no, we have blown up 10 models, and on to SN15. I love it, and have no complaint. This is total irrationality that may pan out. We have enough of irrationality that has no chance of wealth creation, like warmness.
Thank goodness he has rational people that are out of his attention span. They have the best chance of a moon landing, if that does anything. Loonyness is better than committees.
ps. honestly, stainless steel won't work. Maybe another 10 failures before he gives up.
pps. Stability Problem - adding reinforcement makes it heavier
Dynamic Problem - landing impact sends compression waves up and down the rocket. That's why they were talking about snagging it from the top.
Analysis Problem - impossible to analyze welded plates to the degree necessary.
more: lamusk has shown us that the best form of governance is a brilliant benign dictatorship, for a while. Then the dictator drifts. Maybe this will be successful, and we wait for the next drift.
ps. THEY LANDED IT! Took a while.
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