Originally Posted by
EyeKantEven
There are a LOT of posters who owe the rest of us an apology for chewing us out after we commented on the video evidence: it was a HARD landing. "Let the investigators do their job"... Of COURSE we will, but somehow it wasn't "appropriate" to state the obvious.
The landing gear did exactly what it's supposed to do when it hits the ground at 18.3 fps and 3g...
...BREAK !
I dont need an apology. I just love that we once again proved that trigonometry works. We were just continuing a few thousand years of tradition.