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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I say its fake based on the below video. The transcript talks about dropping the landing frame as dropping the ballast didn't provide enough buoyancy to rise fast enough.
Throughout this video where Rush explains all the ballast and ascending mechanisms (including a compressed air buoyancy bag) they never say anything about being able to eject the landing frame and the transcript doesn't talk about any of those features that Rush is keen on explaining. If power fails to drop the lead pipes stored for ballast and fails to inflate the buoyancy bag, Rush explains there's a handpump that can force the ballast system to fall off but this is clearly a different piece of furniture than the entire landing frame.
Those are red flags to me and I'm guessing whoever faked this transcript included the landing frame because it was found clean and intact without any obvious signs of damage so ejecting it would line up with them finding it cleanly.
Navigate to around the 20 min mark for Rush's explanation of the ballast and buoyancy systems.
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This was brought up on another discussion forum and it was pointed out that in the patent, the landing frame was designed to be releasable if it needed to be. I am not an expert on reading technical patent stuff, but it is apparently described on pages 15 and 16.
https://www.scribd.com/document/6567...5-June-8-2021#
This was posted right after the wreckage was recovered and before the alleged transcript was leaked. It was suggested that Rush considered the landing frame as ballast.