If you told me that I'd be cheering for space rockets exploding 10 years ago I would have called you crazy. Incredible how much damage that fiend has done to our society.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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It's incredible, isn't it? I used to be so stoked on space exploration and all the science that goes with it. Still am, really, but my enthusiasm has cooled markedly once billionaires started throwing dick-shaped space missiles around for no other reason than being able to.
Have they published its drug test results yet?
It’s certainly not Honda-level reliability.
Good, eat a dick, Elon.
At this point I'd expect some brain leak from SpaceX. For some, no amount of money is enough to continue to work for a company associated to that toxic twat.
They don't pay that well.
How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
My feed rn:
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
reached an altitude of 890 feet
Kids science projects make reusable rockets that go higher.
reached an altitude of 890 feet
300 meters.
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hehe
They never even made it to the launch.
MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it'll not Explode next Time?
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Ive only ever heard from third parties that spaceX sucks to work for because they way over work you. Idk if thats actually true. But this kind of thing makes me wonder…
That's the genious behind musk, overwork people 10%, gain 10%!!!!
I've heard the same. I'm sure it certainly doesn't help, but I think also what they're trying to do is really difficult
Fairly sure they "saved" hundreds of thousands in wages only to lose millions to billions in material. An engineer working 80 hour weeks month after month isn't nearly going to be as productive as one doing 40hr weeks, no matter how many hours they put out. There's actually a point where it turns negative and every extra hour put in detracts from output, not to mention long-time wellbeing and development.
I think Honda has begun building spaceships/rockets too. Think they chose to build the type that don't explode. link
The front fell off.
it was towed out of the environment.
Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn't their rockets be?
Japanese cars are superior to American cars
I had a high school friend who went on to become an engineer at General Motors. One of his first projects for them was tearing down an Infiniti and a Lexus when those cars first came on the market. He said that at the time, GM cars typically had between 300 and 400 production defects of varying severity. When they took apart the Infiniti, they found 2 production defects; when they took apart the Lexus, they found 0.
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Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan's last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.
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good.
sad that he wasn't on it though.
I feel bad for all the engineers etc who are working really hard on these projects, only to see their efforts tarnished by the flyblown image of the wanker who owns the company.
People really put the faith of the entire American space program on Elon. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
It's less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it's that everyone else is somehow even worse.
SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.
The SLS: $10 Billion and a decade late to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.
ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?
SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.
That's not faith, that's just facts. I would absolutely love to have somebody else step up and take SpaceX's crown, but... there really isn't anybody. Bezos's Blue Origin may have the biggest chance, but they are more likely to act like ULA than SpaceX.
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I'm all for mankind colonizing the stars, but I don't want that A hole down a K hole Elmo involved in any way. I don't trust the cunt not to have a back door into the colony, that he opens whenever his fee fee's get hurt, or if his K hole runs dry.
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