SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas • Hacker News Board

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by Q6T46nT668w6i3m » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:11 PM UTC

badcppdev wrote: post #33

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?

The Times summary is solid:

> SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Explodes After Launch

> The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by the_lonely_road » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #5

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The article you posted doesn't really support calling him "outright anti-trans". From the article you used as support:

Twitter’s modified policy is a step back for the platform, especially when Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube don’t even maintain the same protections for trans people that Twitter once had. Last year, GLAAD gave each of these platforms fairly low scores in regard to LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression but noted that Twitter and TikTok were the only two platforms out of the bunch that had specific policies against deadnaming and misgendering trans users.

So now the only major platform that has this policy is TikTok...famously 'woke' (silly term these days) companies like Google don't even seem to have this policy. The policy was only in place for the past few years at Twitter, so this in fact seems like its just a reversion to the mean rather than some kind of direct attack on trans rights.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by bromuk » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

Fail?

So much success, the fact that it got off the ground and is providing tonnes of data to ground control.

Agile rocket building ftw.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by kgwxd » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

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…

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

Says the person questioning why other people are utilizing their freedom of thought and speech.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by jfoster » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #25

It appeared not all engines light up. Was it normal?

No, it was a sub-nominal flight, but a successful test. (assuming they got the data they needed in order to learn from it, which is a pretty safe assumption)

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by badcppdev » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #25

It appeared not all engines light up. Was it normal?

Happens in 100% of Starship launches

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by koliber » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

Congrats on hitting the test goal.

The double speak is funny though:

> SpaceX call this a rapid unscheduled disassembly

What would a regularly-paced scheduled disassembly look like?

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by soco » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

simondotau wrote: post #6

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

The irony is that we're all "fail fast" until something actually fails fast.

Re: SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas

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Post by kibwen » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

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 probably drank the old american koolaid and have not yet had my sip of the new one.

The "old american koolaid" is to let your neighbor do whatever they please as long as "it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg" (Thomas Jefferson). Trans people aren't hurting anybody, and it's a travesty that one of our major political parties has made demonizing trans people into a wedge issue as part of a manufactured culture war.

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Post by geocrasher » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 2:12 PM UTC

fnordpiglet wrote: post #9

I have over 600 hours logged on KSP and 200 hours on KSP2. This is pretty normal in my experience.

As somebody who's never become good at KSP, I've debated whether or not to get KSP2. Does it have better training so that you have clues how to get some of the initial things done so you can build up in career mode better?