SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
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NASA ran the projects. They have specifications to contractors for manufacturing. That's a far cry from farming out the entire process and renting space on a commercial rocket.
NASA funded SpaceX based on hitting milestones on their COTS program. Those were just as available to Boeing and Blue Origin, but they had less success meeting those milestones and making a profit under fixed price contracts (as opposed to the traditional cost plus contracts). It's still NASA-defined standards, only with an offloading of the risk and uncertainty onto the private contractors, which was great for SpaceX and terrible for Boeing.
But ultimately it's still just contracting.
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Oh please. Elon will long be dead before we are ever seriously colonizing mars.
That's his only redeeming feature...that he'll be dead one day.
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If you like SatNav, accurate weather tracking, and advanced intercontinental communication then ya like rockets ya dipshit.
While Id be the first to ban private rocket launches outright, we shouldn't abandon the advances of the space age because of them.
You've got good points, but your needless insults makes your argument fall on deaf ears.
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Rocket fuel is toxic. Don't cook with it. Don't touch or breathe it. Don't even look at it.
Once it's burned it's mostly safe, aside from the usual problems with combustion products.
Is LOX and methane really that bad?
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You've got good points, but your needless insults makes your argument fall on deaf ears.
Then wallow in thine ignorance pissant.
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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.
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Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
Here comes the killjoy!
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It's less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it's that everyone else is somehow even worse.
SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.
The SLS: $10 Billion and a decade late to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.
ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?
SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.
That's not faith, that's just facts. I would absolutely love to have somebody else step up and take SpaceX's crown, but... there really isn't anybody. Bezos's Blue Origin may have the biggest chance, but they are more likely to act like ULA than SpaceX.
Bezos seems pretty happy with space tourism he doesn't wanna work for the government. Gotta kinda be sick to want to in the first place.
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Ive only ever heard from third parties that spaceX sucks to work for because they way over work you. Idk if thats actually true. But this kind of thing makes me wonder…
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We shouldn’t be building rockets PERIOD. They cost too much and are eventually only going to serve trillionaires.
FIX SHIT ON THE GROUND FIRST
That said,
They did a test from 300 meters, sure it’s cool but I think they have a LONG way to go before they are competetive.
We can do both? What's a rocket scientist going to do about systemic oppression and the rise of fascism that excludes them from working on rockets still?
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You've got good points, but your needless insults makes your argument fall on deaf ears.
Separating the message from the messenger is a key skill. A right answer doesn't become wrong because it comes from a jerk.
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Ive only ever heard from third parties that spaceX sucks to work for because they way over work you. Idk if thats actually true. But this kind of thing makes me wonder…
I've heard the same. I'm sure it certainly doesn't help, but I think also what they're trying to do is really difficult
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good.
sad that he wasn't on it though.
I feel bad for all the engineers etc who are working really hard on these projects, only to see their efforts tarnished by the flyblown image of the wanker who owns the company.
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They never even made it to the launch.
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Separating the message from the messenger is a key skill. A right answer doesn't become wrong because it comes from a jerk.
Yep me being an uncouth asshole has little to no bearing on my point. It's like those uppity cunts who act like theyre better just cause they don't swear, usually they are morons I mean Mormons and thusly my inbuilt snob filter works wonders.
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I think Honda has begun building spaceships/rockets too. Think they chose to build the type that don't explode. link
The front fell off.
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Separating the message from the messenger is a key skill. A right answer doesn't become wrong because it comes from a jerk.
You're absolutely right, you absolute fuckwad, and well said, even if you are a shit eating waste of a human.
(Sorry I don't mean it, I feel bad now...)
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Yep me being an uncouth asshole has little to no bearing on my point. It's like those uppity cunts who act like theyre better just cause they don't swear, usually they are morons I mean Mormons and thusly my inbuilt snob filter works wonders.
Agreed, but your point will usually be a lot better received if you aren't a dick. SpaceX is a great example- it's a great company, but the head of the company taints the whole thing they are trying to achieve.
It comes down to respect. Even if I'm wrong, treating me with respect will mean I'm more likely to respect you, and if I respect you I'm going to respect your argument.
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Whoa. a subpar Elon project? SAY IT ISN'T SO!
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The front fell off.
it was towed out of the environment.
