Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight

oyzmo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The front fell off.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it was towed out of the environment.

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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn’t their rockets be?

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  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Japanese cars are superior to American cars

    I had a high school friend who went on to become an engineer at General Motors. One of his first projects for them was tearing down an Infiniti and a Lexus when those cars first came on the market. He said that at the time, GM cars typically had between 300 and 400 production defects of varying severity. When they took apart the Infiniti, they found 2 production defects; when they took apart the Lexus, they found 0.

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    • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 Cry line, if they found a defecy, 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.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Definitely agreed on cars, but Japan’s last few moon missions had several catastrophic failures unfortunately.

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    • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the thing is, when you build rockets, and they actually work, and put people on mars, you can reasonably demand that people who demand exponential growth actually go to mars, because earth is already full. this way, you can get rid of the billionaires.

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  • Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • gazter@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve got good points, but your needless insults makes your argument fall on deaf ears.

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      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Then wallow in thine ignorance pissant.

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