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    BREAKING: SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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    1. Cautemoc on

      Don’t worry guys, I’ve been assured by everyone that Starship is only ~~1 2 3 4 5~~ 6 years behind schedule and they’ll get it all worked out soon.

      These regular explosions are all tests to see what happens if it explodes. These are successful explosions, stop asking questions. Stop it.

    2. Granum22 on

      I can’t wait to learn how this actually amazing and a sign of progress for Space X

    5. WantWantShellySenbei on

      Holy cow that video is pretty awesome though. Elon makes the best fireworks.

    8. bigloser42 on

      Totally normal, part of the process. We only need to do 37 more launches and have 16 more pad explosions and we’ll be all set to go to Mars!

    9. faeriara on

      This is really bad. The V2 Ship has been cursed. Three failures in a row and now this.

    10. wrecked_angle on

      I hate Elon as much as the next guy but SpaceX was so fucking cool and it’s tragic to watch it just go to absolute shit

    12. gwdope on

      On one hand I’m sad because space travel is so cool and SpaceX, which has pushed the way space flight is done forward, has become our only way to do it. On the other hand, I’m happy because Elon is having a terrible night and that fucker deserves to have a terrible night every night for the rest of his miserable life.

    13. Bandsohard on

      There’s obviously a massive design flaw with this program. Even if each failure and explosion has different causes, there’s either a huge lack of quality control or something inherit to the design that causes all the ’causes’.

      Fail fast is a fine methodology for software development, but when it’s causing significant explosions that can get people seriously hurt, you need to reevaluate your process and you should be doing more unit testing, hardware in the loop testing, and various forms of integration testing before you get to stages of qualification and regression testing. If it wasn’t blowing up every ship, okay great, but at this point be humble and accept that the scope of smaller scale tests needs to increase.

    15. Maxterchief99 on

      All those engineers and scientists that built the ship, so excited to see it fly, only to have it explode. Wonder what they’ll learn from this!

    16. AnimeMeansArt on

      What’s up with the comments? Does everyone hate SpaceX now because of Elon?

    18. ToddBradley on

      I’ve got a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, and can say with some professional certainty that the front fell off

    21. MGM-Wonder on

      Damn that looked cool! Looks like it all kicked off near the top 1/3 of the rocket

    25. UW_Ebay on

      Is it just me or does it feel like they may be having real issues with the starship?

    26. Gentlemanmax67 on

      It almost looks like the explosion didn’t start with the rocket, but in the tower (in slo-mo).

    27. Confident-Barber-347 on

      NASA’s SLS and Artemis may also be behind schedule and cost a ton, but I’ll be damned if that sucker didn’t make it all the way to the moon on the first try. Very different development approach but that’s pretty impressive IMO.

    29. thecatpigs on

      It’s funny how everything was going smoothly at SpaceX until the CEO came back.

    30. lolrogii on

      beter have it explode on the test stand then on the launch pad, the damage would’ve been insane together with the booster. but it seems starship development has been regressing lately.

    31. CB4R on

      Usually I don’t watch it, when it takes me off Reddit, but this one was pretty cinematic, I gotta admit

    32. astroknots on

      private enterprise is a much better idea than nasa and will not be a waste of our money!! /s

    33. MeeksMoniker on

      Feels like a metaphor

      for America

      Like, if Elon is managing this like he managed Doge and X then we all know these rocket scientists have lost co-workers to cuts, then got heaps of work piled on them along with absurd deadlines and expectations. It’s no wonder more of these are exploding than what we’ve seen previously. One in the sky, and now one didn’t even leave the pad….