NASA should partner with Honda.
How much taxpayer money was tossed at the fucking bottle rocket failure?
SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
Submitted 9 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/19/spacexs-starship-blows-up-ahead-of-10th-test-flight/
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Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I’ve been wondering why they don’t blow up more regularly. I imagine a few long range sniper shots would make them explode easily. They should be relatively easy to hit, seeing how big they are.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
is this normal i don’t know anything about housing cocks
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 9 months ago
that’s how we know Musk isn’t a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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
immutable@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Hold on let me remove most of my brain.
This is so much more efficient than the shuttle program. You see when we made the space shuttle it cost the American taxpayer billions and in the end we owned and could operate the shuttle for the common good.
This was spacex spends billions of dollars (that the government gives them) and in the end they own and operate the spaceship for profit and can charge the American taxpayer anything they want to access space.
Musk is Tony stark!
Sorry I couldn’t get stupid enough to make this authentic.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 9 months ago
🤮
i hate even tax payers pay to develop something, but a private company gets all the intellectual property and profits.
same thing happend when the COVID vaccine.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
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
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
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…
EverXIII@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Surely they will blame on immigrants too…
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
bieren@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
“Look at what I can do” -Elon musk while throwing a Nazi salute
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 9 months ago
i thought Nazis were at least competent at making rockets.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Only Nazis from the Nazi region of Germany, any other kind of Nazi is just a sparkling asshole
bieren@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
German Nazis. Not South African immigrant nazis.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Whoop whoop! I hope it caused a lot of damage.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 9 months ago
a lot of tax payer money just give byebye, mostly, part of it went straight into Musk’s pocket
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yup. And hopefully they will see it is pointless and cut funding to spacex, instead of keep on throwing away money.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
I mean, SpaceX is a private company owned by Musk…
Srh@lemmy.world 9 months ago
…That takes money from the tax payers in the forms of grants and contracts (that it has not fulfilled).
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 months ago
And?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.)
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Have they published its drug test results yet?
obinice@lemmy.world 9 months ago
hehe
Agent641@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The thumbnail had me reminiscing of the poster for The Descent
aesthelete@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good, eat a dick, Elon.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At this point I’d expect some brain leak from SpaceX. For some, no amount of money is enough to continue to work for a company associated to that toxic twat.
pigup@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They don’t pay that well.
wpb@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not perfect, but capitalism is the best system we’ve got. It is only through competition on the free market that we would arrive at a space program this efficient and innovative. Imagine if the government tried to do this! They would’ve blown up a 100 rockets by now with nothing to show for it, and it would’ve cost tax payers billions of dollars. The innovation of SpaceX is humanity at it’s finest. For thousands of years we’ve looked up at the sky, and wondered what’s there, and now, thanks to the engineering chops of Elon Musk, it is within our grasp. Imagine that, sending a person to space. Maybe someday we’ll even be able to put someone on the moon!
Valmond@lemmy.world 9 months ago
NGL got me in the first part :-)
merdaverse@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Such a remarkable achievement! We should put capitalists on the Starship ASAP so they can enjoy the fruits of “their” labor!
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
this but unironically. send all the billionaires to mars!
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good gods! Captain, The ambient sarcasm readings are off the charts!
catty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s life Jim, but not as we know it.
Not as we know it.
Star Trekkin’ Across The Universe…
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ngl, had me in the first half.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It’s certainly not Honda-level reliability.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Whoa. a subpar Elon project? SAY IT ISN’T SO!
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
I hate the guy’s guts as much as anybody else, but he has kickstarted a space race, and an EV market. Credit where it’s due.
And yeah I know, rich daddy, no inventions, all evolutionary, etc. But here we are.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He’s just there to steal credit. Just like everything he’s been a part of.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 months ago
kickstarted a space race
hah no
Auli@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Give credit to his employees he’s done nothing.
Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
You do not hate the guy’s guts as much as anybody else, or as much as is reasonable. You do not in fact have to give it to the Nazi scum. Any success or credit is due to the employees of the companies the inept pathetic narcissistic pro-fascism scumfuck is undeservedly running, often on fire and into the ground. If the resources he’s hoarding would be allocated by a reasonable, competent and humanist entity, we would all be much better off. Musk would be better off the planet. Shame that he missed this flight.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What space race?
NASA us working on a shoestring budget and managed to run some very successful missions. The Artemis Program is/was very succesful, and what does NASA get?
Budget cuts. Money diverted to SpaceX who, under Elon, has yet to do a single succesful mission (the Dragon capsule and reusable rockets were both projects that Elon bought. Starship is the first project that Elon directed).
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
They never even made it to the launch.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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…
Valmond@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the genious behind musk, overwork people 10%, gain 10%!!!
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fairly sure they “saved” hundreds of thousands in wages only to lose millions to billions in material. An engineer working 80 hour weeks month after month isn’t nearly going to be as productive as one doing 40hr weeks, no matter how many hours they put out. There’s actually a point where it turns negative and every extra hour put in detracts from output, not to mention long-time wellbeing and development.
drmoose@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s incredible, isn’t it? I used to be so stoked on space exploration and all the science that goes with it. Still am, really, but my enthusiasm has cooled markedly once billionaires started throwing dick-shaped space missiles around for no other reason than being able to.
OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
drhodl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m all for mankind colonizing the stars, but I don’t want that A hole down a K hole Elmo involved in any way. I don’t trust the cunt not to have a back door into the colony, that he opens whenever his fee fee’s get hurt, or if his K hole runs dry.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh please. Elon will long be dead before we are ever seriously colonizing mars.
drhodl@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s his only redeeming feature…that he’ll be dead one day.
pyre@lemmy.world 9 months ago
good.
sad that he wasn’t on it though.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 months ago
reached an altitude of 890 feet
Kids science projects make reusable rockets that go higher.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s a test flight. Going higher was likely not the goal.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
reached an altitude of 890 feet
300 meters.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I imagine rifing a rocket like final boss fight in Just Cause 2.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Damn, looks like I didn’t get my wish: sh.itjust.works/comment/19193050
forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Putting the Bang back in Big Bang!