Starship maybe about to go up

Scott Manley is pretty sure that a concrete chunk took out the two outer ring engines that were initially out. Wouldn't surprise me at this point if the concrete was responsible for damaging all 6 (not 5 - the graphic stopped updating) that eventually failed, as well as the damage to the HPU.

Sounds like a relatively easy fix.

If the water table was lower, it would be. Although it occurs to me that maybe they don't need a water deluge system if they just have a flooded flame trench at all times.

Edit: this is a joke. They would find it extremely difficult to work on or install/remove engines if they had that.

You also get many of the same acoustic problems with a body of water rather than a spray.

This is Elon Musk. The Earth is not big enough for his ego. There is no law that states you must use your largesse for the common good. This isn’t taxpayer money; this is Musk‘s bank roll. If he want to colonize Mars, he can and probably will.

This is not entirely true. Musk gets corporate welfare for his projects, and is a contractor. I am separating grants and funding from his corporate fees. On top of that any patents and whatnot belong to him. One of the problems with tech is that Elon will make it proprietary so in order to do stuff in space you will have to use and pay for designs specific to his shit. Right now we are using a system developed by the US military that is meant to be universal which is why the world has been able to so easily adapt to the internet protocol developed to not be owned by companies like Apple and MS. When we look at other industries we are forced to continue to work with certain contractors because their parts are proprietary.

This is one of the reasons I see people like Elon as completely corporate evil. Steve Jobs was far smarter and egomaniacal than Elon is and we are lucky he was not allowed to hold us to Apple's designs forever like he wanted to. These technologies need to have universal parts if we are to not be beholdent to some guy's little key lock that means we all always have to pay him for the use of something that does nothing for the tech, but it makes him money.

Standards are important which is why the world uses metric system, and the US is still using that old funky english system of measurements. Let us not let elon's dick size be a part of science long after he is gone because he based all of his tech on it.

Video of shit getting pasted on the ground.



@shootER, on the right side of the frame, near the edge, you can see a camera tripod that somehow managed to stay up during all of that. I dunno how, but I'd be real interested in knowing what kind it was.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cqbIwZMvbqw

The flight termination system might have been activated 50 seconds before the explosion. I imagine the FAA might have something to say about that.

Did @shootER sabotage the flight? Enquiring minds want to know .

If I'd been involved it never would've left the launch pad.

You've always had performance issues.

Your wife begs to differ.

She likes poor performance.

Wait, what?

What, just lying there and waiting it out?

So trump redefined winning, and elon musk redefined success.

Words have meaning to some people, but not to real stable geniuses like these two.

Pics of the repair work.

https://twitter.com/rgvaerialphotos/status/1653467472694001693?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

SpaceX's Flawed Starship Launch Just Got the FAA Sued

New POV Footage Shows Dodge Caravan’s Final Moments Before SpaceX Starship Explodes

And you know what else it shows? Them starting it up and driving it away. And they laughed at me back in the 90s when I told them that a minivan with dual sliding doors would be the ultimate vehicle for a drive-by! Who's laughing now?

SpaceX Wants Environmental Lawsuit Against Its Starship Rocket Dismissed

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/

God damn, I see this title and keep wondering if starship is going back on tour.

We built this shitty. We built this shitty. We built this shitty for Elon Musk.

Propellant Dump Gone Wrong Caused Recent Starship Explosion, Musk Says

That’s pretty interesting. Should rarely/never be a thing they do except in flight tests. The author’s confusion is due to a misunderstanding: Starship had enough fuel to make orbit, so it would have but for the fuel dump, not but for the explosion. The thing that’s actually not clear is why they didn’t put a dummy payload on board.

About 200lbs would've been perfect, provided the rocket still blew up.

Texas Is Considering a Controversial Land Swap Deal With SpaceX

Wife of SpaceX Worker Left in a Coma After Rocket Test Sues, Claiming Negligence

I want to start off saying that conjugations and declensions suck fucking ass and serve no purpose whatsoever.

God bless those illiterate English peasants that rejected all that bullshit while their frog speeching Norman lords weren’t paying attention.

That said how did she sue while in a coma?

Was her name Sue?

I hated Jefferson Starship.

Go tell alice when she's 6 feet tall.