It's a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.

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.

I'll have to read up on that. I didn't know they had tried anything because of the whole can't make missiles thing.

I worked on the Lexus line in Georgetown, KY one summer between semesters. Their standards are insane. Worked the Toyota Camry line the summer before that.

On the Camry line, if they found a defect, they would correct it, then have a QC stand there and inspect every affected car for the next month.

I stood on the line with a screwdriver to check the tightness of a single screw on every sunroof in Camrys. It was so heavily coriographed, it was like a dance.

Surely they will blame on immigrants too...

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...

kickstarted a space race

hah no

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

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

i thought Nazis were at least competent at making rockets.

a lot of tax payer money just give byebye, mostly, part of it went straight into Musk's pocket

that's how we know Musk isn't a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.

/s

(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)

I mean, SpaceX is a private company owned by Musk…

....That takes money from the tax payers in the forms of grants and contracts (that it has not fulfilled).

is this normal i don't know anything about housing cocks

German Nazis. Not South African immigrant nazis.

I ain't using dingus firstly cause I'm pretty sure dankpods has a copyright on it and secondarily it has none of the gutteral bite that damned near every other insult in my dialect has. Also I go out of my way to commit some level of ad hom since I find that it's a fine way to figure out if folks have thick enough skin to take seriously, worst case scenario they throw a punch and that's just a good time for me.

so European nazis are better than African immigrant nazis?

did we just create a new layer of racism?