SpaceX doesn't know why it works, but will use it anyway

 

In the posts about the phenomenon originally known as "cold fusion", the criticism seemed to follow the doctrine that if you cannot explain WHY it works, then it is a fraud. Clearly, in view of SpaceX's undeniable success at landing the booster on a tower, that doctrine is not always correct. That's because SpaceX doesn't know why it works, when the models say that it shouldn't.

Perhaps there's something to learn here that could be applied to so-called "cold fusion", or "low energy nuclear reactions"?

I jipped it at approximately where in the following video that you can hear it being said. The Starship heavy booster is a real thing, not fake science. If it weren't for Elon Musk's willingness to try it, we'd never know that it could work.