Smithi

This will not help you if half of your disks go down, as happened to Reddit.

Eml2 would be a good place for rendezvous between earth reentry craft and interplanetary spacecraft. It's a low deltaV target from both earth surface and interplanetary trajectories, and using it would get us away from an architecture that can handle at most a 4 person mission profile.

I heard it was a low-tech test of their heat shield performance. That's why the joke works - they had to see how runny it was.