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Looks like Falcon landed fine, but excess lateral velocity caused it to tip over post landing -@elonmusk

Scott Manley did precisely this in KSP the other day, trying to replicate the barge landing:

Admittedly, he also replicated all the other possible failure modes too. Turns out landing on barges is hard.

I wonder how much of the rocket is steel?

Perhaps a barge full of Tesla batteries and electromagnets could grab and hold it as it comes in?

If that's the idea then just land it into a big sunken tube filled with netting.

It's almost entirely aluminum.

That's really fun to watch. Thanks for the link!

Hopefully that means there wasn't too much damage to the barge.