It's not a starship, at best it's a low Earth orbit ship.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Well, now it's recycling, right?
Can you smell burning Spock.
For a couple of minutes.
It's kinda fun to be living in a time where rockets regularly blow up again. Apart from, you know, everything else going on and not wanting astronauts to die.
Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what's different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would've been buried in the 60s.
Comparing an engine out where the mission went on without issue and a huge fireball on the pad is apples and oranges.
Was he on it? If he was this is a complete success.
If he wasn’t.
Better luck next time I guess?
Elon is stupid, but I'm thinking he's not so stupid as to board one of his own rockets.
He’s a chicken shit ? Why are all these tough guy conservatives such pussies
I mean, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't want to risk death. He knows it's not risk-free.
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Waiting for the SpaceX bros to tell everyone how this was actually a good thing because it was supposed to happen and means everything is going well.
“iT wAs A rApId UnScHeDuLeD dIsSaSsEmBlY”
As long as nobody was harmed they could blow up a hundred rockets for all I care. Maybe it'll even help with competition, like make other companies switch launch vehicles, so it might be a good thing (just not for them) lol
People live around there, so harm is definitely being done to the air they breathe and the environment they live in.
The people living there now are all employees. Basically Musk’s mining town
it is liquid oxygen and liquid methane deflagrating, the main result is water and CO2. not exactly harmful
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I now have the Street Fighter voice in my head going:
"Honda Wins!"
For the killjoy that will come pointing out that SpaceX is at another level of development etc., yes, I know that. Japan also has a constitution written by the US that doesn't permit them to have long-range missiles.
Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
Here comes the killjoy!
Unplanned rapid disassembly?
Thoughts and prayers... lol
That's better efficiency. It gets to the blowing up part faster than before
oh no! anyway...
Getting it out of the way so the engineers can enjoy the long weekend.
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Musk's starships are blowing up like his reputation 😂
Well at least it was a decent looking explosion?
Iterations are getting more frequent, which is a good sign, right? Right?