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Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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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?

> Are you doing this on all topics related to Musk?

My 10 year history on hacker news is there for all to see... why ask a rhetorical question, when you can just look.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Parts falling off, engines going out, something getting inside the interstage. That ship was an absolute fighter.

I was thinking this as well... It spiraled seemingly forever without failing, while they hoovered telemetry off of it, until pressing the big red button. Massive fault tolerance at play. SpaceX is awesome in so many ways. Thanks Elon.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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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…

> What good is freedom of thought and speech if one cannot exercise it?

I'm pretty sure that calling out a celebrity billionaire's transphobia is exercising one's freedom of speech.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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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…

> What good is freedom of thought and speech if one cannot exercise it?

This is what I describe as the “worse is better” model of freedom. As if the only way we can measure freedom is by counting how many extremely awful things occur in the world and concluding that more awful things is a clear indicator that we have more freedom. Is this a uniquely American concept?

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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People always joke that a success like this will be blasted by the media as a failure, but it's the most predictable thing ever. Massive success today for SpaceX but the story is massive failure. So silly. I'm as anti-Musk as the next, but it's also weird to see so many people gleeful that Musk must be so embarrassed at this 'massive failure'. Like, how uninformed do you have to be to think that Elon would be humilia…

Not just misinformed. How petty and I dunno, plain _evil_ do you have to be? This is a step into making humanity reaching the stars. Is seeing a guy you hate fail really all that matters?

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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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…

He has his freedom of speech! So did the person you're replying to. That's what the old American freedom of speech meant: you can say dumb things and other people can say that what you said was dumb.

The new koolaid is "I can say dumb things and if anybody calls me on it, I'm being oppressed." That has nothing to do with freedom of speech, there's no government here.

Sounds like you've been drinking plenty of the new koolaid.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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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…

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