It's getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time
that's how we know Musk isn't a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
Putting the Bang back in Big Bang!
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
I mean... its a big deal if you're anywhere near the launchpad. Or, in or around South Padre Island.
Also can't help but notice that Starbase, Texas is practically hugging the US/Mexico border. Almost as though Abbott didn't want this shit landing in his own backyard when it failed.
It also helps to be as far south as possible. You get to use more momentum to help get orbit, if I understand it correctly.
IIRC, that’s why NASA launches from Florida. That and the coast making launch failures safer.
(But I am not a physicist.)
Proximity to the equator and high elevation make for ideal launch sites. Then eastward facing, because you want to run counter to the earth's spin as you launch and be out over open water if something fucks up. One reason why Kenya, Brazil, and Indonesia were floated as a high efficiency international spaceports decades ago, when efficiency was considered more important than inflating a billionaire's ego.
“Look at what I can do” -Elon musk while throwing a Nazi salute
i thought Nazis were at least competent at making rockets.
Only Nazis from the Nazi region of Germany, any other kind of Nazi is just a sparkling asshole
German Nazis. Not South African immigrant nazis.
It's not perfect, but capitalism is the best system we've got. It is only through competition on the free market that we would arrive at a space program this efficient and innovative. Imagine if the government tried to do this! They would've blown up a 100 rockets by now with nothing to show for it, and it would've cost tax payers billions of dollars. The innovation of SpaceX is humanity at it's finest. For thousands of years we've looked up at the sky, and wondered what's there, and now, thanks to the engineering chops of Elon Musk, it is within our grasp. Imagine that, sending a person to space. Maybe someday we'll even be able to put someone on the moon!
Such a remarkable achievement! We should put capitalists on the Starship ASAP so they can enjoy the fruits of "their" labor!
this but unironically. send all the billionaires to mars!
I mean, is it necessary to have a destination? Just get them going and let them sort it out from there.
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
Ngl, had me in the first half.
Good gods! Captain, The ambient sarcasm readings are off the charts!
We can't even handle being a multi-country species, maybe Elon should dial back the sci-fi "multi-planet" miniseries playing in his head...
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
NASA should partner with Honda.
How much taxpayer money was tossed at the fucking bottle rocket failure?
Whoa. a subpar Elon project? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
If you told me that I'd be cheering for space rockets exploding 10 years ago I would have called you crazy. Incredible how much damage that fiend has done to our society.
I miss Reddit so some musky can tell me about how blowing up your spaceships is part of the engineering process and how this is good.
they were funny
Hold on let me remove most of my brain.
This is so much more efficient than the shuttle program. You see when we made the space shuttle it cost the American taxpayer billions and in the end we owned and could operate the shuttle for the common good.
This way spacex spends billions of dollars (that the government gives them) and in the end they own and operate the spaceship for profit and can charge the American taxpayer anything they want to access space.
Musk is Tony stark!
Sorry I couldn’t get stupid enough to make this authentic.
🤮
i hate even tax payers pay to develop something, but a private company gets all the intellectual property and profits.
same thing happend when the COVID vaccine.
MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it'll not Explode next Time?
My feed rn:
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
Surely they will blame on immigrants too...
is this normal i don't know anything about housing cocks
People really put the faith of the entire American space program on Elon. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
I think Honda has begun building spaceships/rockets too. Think they chose to build the type that don't explode. link
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