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It's getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time
that's how we know Musk isn't a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
I miss Reddit so some musky can tell me about how blowing up your spaceships is part of the engineering process and how this is good.
they were funny
We can't even handle being a multi-country species, maybe Elon should dial back the sci-fi "multi-planet" miniseries playing in his head...
Surely they will blame on immigrants too...
“Look at what I can do” -Elon musk while throwing a Nazi salute
i thought Nazis were at least competent at making rockets.
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
I mean... its a big deal if you're anywhere near the launchpad. Or, in or around South Padre Island.
Also can't help but notice that Starbase, Texas is practically hugging the US/Mexico border. Almost as though Abbott didn't want this shit landing in his own backyard when it failed.
It also helps to be as far south as possible. You get to use more momentum to help get orbit, if I understand it correctly.
IIRC, that’s why NASA launches from Florida. That and the coast making launch failures safer.
(But I am not a physicist.)
Proximity to the equator and high elevation make for ideal launch sites. Then eastward facing, because you want to run counter to the earth's spin as you launch and be out over open water if something fucks up. One reason why Kenya, Brazil, and Indonesia were floated as a high efficiency international spaceports decades ago, when efficiency was considered more important than inflating a billionaire's ego.
I mean, SpaceX is a private company owned by Musk…
....That takes money from the tax payers in the forms of grants and contracts (that it has not fulfilled).
And?
It's not perfect, but capitalism is the best system we've got. It is only through competition on the free market that we would arrive at a space program this efficient and innovative. Imagine if the government tried to do this! They would've blown up a 100 rockets by now with nothing to show for it, and it would've cost tax payers billions of dollars. The innovation of SpaceX is humanity at it's finest. For thousands of years we've looked up at the sky, and wondered what's there, and now, thanks to the engineering chops of Elon Musk, it is within our grasp. Imagine that, sending a person to space. Maybe someday we'll even be able to put someone on the moon!
Such a remarkable achievement! We should put capitalists on the Starship ASAP so they can enjoy the fruits of "their" labor!
this but unironically. send all the billionaires to mars!
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
NGL got me in the first part :-)
Ngl, had me in the first half.
Whoop whoop! I hope it caused a lot of damage.
a lot of tax payer money just give byebye, mostly, part of it went straight into Musk's pocket
Have they published its drug test results yet?
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