But why does it have to hover?
Why do they have to winch it down from the hovering "skycrane"?
The whole thing fails the KISS maxim and instead looks suspiciously like something Gerry Anderson would have built.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 9:34,
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They explain all that in the video
they need to use rockets because the parachute can't slow it down enough. If they then just landed on rockets the thing would get covered in dust which could clog up its innards.
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pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Wed 1 Aug 2012, 15:43,
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