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Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket explodes in second test flight | CNN (www.cnn.com)
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SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

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[–] 74 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Sounds like a proper test. But annoying that Musk's name has to be plastered over every headline related to Xitter, Tesla Motors, Starlink and SpaceX.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It’s interesting. When a spacex launch goes well, you don’t see his name attached in the headline. But on this explosion, his name comes first.

    I mean, It’s all business. Disaster and Elon musk are going hand in hand since his turn into a pretty decent, hateable villain a couple years ago. So putting his name on an explosion gets the “Awfuckyeah give me musk hate porn” crowd. Even though he had almost as little to do with this failure as he did with the Hindenburg. But this gets clicks.

    It’s pretty annoying, because we can see right through it and their motives are shitty. Don’t get me wrong, Elon musk is a douchebag, but CNN’s motives for attaching his name to this article directly in the headline aren’t a mystery. And they’re selfish. So we can hate both CNN and musk at the same time. Convenient.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    CNN writer here puts Musk in the first line of the article where it was considered a success.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/spacex-starship-40000-foot-test-flight-scn/index.html

    In this article Musk's name isn't there... which is the kind of article I would rather see:

    https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/18/world/starship-launch-science-newsletter-wt-scn/index.html

    Hate the game, not the player.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Interestingly, they actually took Musk’s name out of this headline (after I posted it, ugh), but managed to replace it with a very BuzzFeed-y one.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    But one is from 2020, before he turned into a villain. So that’s still tracks. And the second one is from this year. And they’re talking about a feat. I still think my theory is right.

    Plus, it’s CNN. I…didn’t think people were really able to defend CNN as anything more than a moneymaking venture. Just because trump hated them, it’s like we all forgot everything they’ve ever done.

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