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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Ghost Dog

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4. To be fair, the steam 'rocket' did fly.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2020, 09:24 AM

Feb 2020

But there was a little parachute problem (it fell off at launch). Two parachutes deployed correctly during the previous test. Investigators might want to look into possible causes for the inconsistency?

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