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SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by badcppdev »

simondotau wrote: post #6

Success was defined as the rocket leaving the launchpad. Suggesting that this test “failed” is at best a mischaracterisation.

This story/thread gets my upvote because it is by far the least click-bait headline I saw in a quick scan of /new.

I will disagree with you though and say that the rocket stage separation failed to work. And this occurred a few minutes after launching.

What would your headline be?

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by unpopularopp »

bhouston wrote: post #5

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I don't get your comment. Feels like a disclaimer

"Yes I know Musk is bad and I'm not bad, see I'm not bad because I mention Musk is bad, I'm not one of them. That being said it was a nice rocket launch"

Are you doing this on all topics related to Musk?

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by version_five »

ptsneves wrote: post #27
bhouston wrote: post #5

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Musk has many issues, but what is the point of bringing his grudge with Trans? The rocket is a great success and in the grand scale of things is worth the ego grandstanding. The man has done nothing illegal and has accomplished a lot amazing things. Congrats to SpaceX, Elon, the Americans and Humanity. What good is freedom of thought and speech if one cannot exercise it? I probably drank the old american koolaid and…

You can see the other currently downvoted comment.

It's like a religion that feels it needs to insert "God is great" or "in his divine wisdom" into every sentence, just to make sure nobody questions their piety.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by bhouston »

ptsneves wrote: post #27
bhouston wrote: post #5

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Musk has many issues, but what is the point of bringing his grudge with Trans? The rocket is a great success and in the grand scale of things is worth the ego grandstanding. The man has done nothing illegal and has accomplished a lot amazing things. Congrats to SpaceX, Elon, the Americans and Humanity. What good is freedom of thought and speech if one cannot exercise it? I probably drank the old american koolaid and…

I think a lot of articles and tweets are focusing on the failure incorrectly. Their views are coloured by wanting to see Elon fail because they don't like his views. This was at least a muted success and not an outright failure and it is just a stepping stone.

I was trying to say, yes, Elon has pretty bad views these days, but this is still at least a semi-success, not a set back or failure.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by agloe_dreams »

panki27 wrote: post #11

It looked just like a regular launch in Kerbal Space Program at the end.

Pretty much, I'm sure most of us have at least once had a tumble at or above max-Q.

I'm intrigued as per cause. Lots of Engine failures and spewed parts. It had a real slide on liftoff. An engine violently flashed and went pop about +25s.

I do have to say, the thing requiring FTS after a violent flip well above supersonic speaks orders about structural work.

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