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SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Utterly Embarrassing (www.planetearthandbeyond.co)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yes, because Elon Musk is such an asshole people can't seem to help themselves from talking shit, even when it's misguided.

They talk about the safety record of Saturn rockets without mentioning that using those isn't currently possible and then talk about cost per ton of falcon without acknowledging the same design process that created that rocket is being used to make this one. Falcon also had a fair number of explosions before the kinks were worked out and now it's launching so often that no other company or nation is even close to the same cadence.

And it sucks! Because I'm interested in space, and SpaceX has done very impressive things, and it's owned by this fucking jerk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They talk about the safety record of Saturn rockets without mentioning that using those isn’t currently possible

And that, at least from my memory, multiple people in the Saturn Program considered it to have been extremely good luck to not have had a failure which led to deaths.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except it did. Apollo 1 ended with a fire on the pad, killing all three astronauts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

well, Apollo was not part of the Saturn program, was it?
Rocket did fine, even during Apollo 13 it wasn't the Saturn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Well said.