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Phatguysrule said:
Lol. I hear that. But you can be sure he won't risk his own akin until it has been fully tested and is extremely safe.
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It’s really shitty the way he’s doing this. You know NASA didn’t crash a single Saturn V prototype? Because they cared about safety and science, not flashy self-aggrandizing events on Weed Day.

the lesson here is privatization of aerospace (or anything honestly) only leads to shitty products with lots of hype.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/spacex-rocket-dust-texas.html

SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess

Residents of Port Isabel said that their city was covered in grime following SpaceX’s rocket launch on Thursday. The city said there was no “immediate concern for people’s health.”
April 21, 2023
The SpaceX rocket launch kicked up debris that damaged an unoccupied car near the blast site and produced a dust cloud that covered Port Isabel, Texas, in grime about six miles away.Abraham Pineda-Jacome/EPA, via Shutterstock

As the most powerful rocket ever built blasted from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday, the liftoff rocked the earth and kicked up a billowing cloud of dust and debris, shaking homes and raining down brown grime for miles.

In Port Isabel, a city about six miles northwest where at least one window shattered, residents were alarmed.

“It was truly terrifying,” said Sharon Almaguer, who, at the time of the launch, was at home with her 80-year-old mother. During previous launches, Ms. Almaguer said she had experienced some shaking inside the brick house, but “this was on a completely different level.”

Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship explodedminutes after liftoff and before reaching orbit. Near the launch site, the residents of Port Isabel, known for its towering lighthouse and less than 10 miles from the border with Mexico, were left to deal with the mess.

Virtually everywhere in the city “ended up with a covering of a rather thick, granular, sand grain that just landed on everything,” Valerie Bates, a Port Isabel spokeswoman, said in an interview.

Images posted to social media showed residents’ cars covered in brown debris.

A window shattered at a fitness gym, its owner, Luis Alanis, said. Mr. Alanis, who was at home at the time of the launch, said he felt “rumbling, kind of like a mini earthquake.” He estimated that the window would cost about $300 to fix….

“There were bowling ball-sized pieces of concrete that came flying out of the launchpad area,” Mr. Balderas said. The blast, he added, had created a crater that he estimated was around 25 feet deep.

Eric Roesch, an expert in environmental compliance and risk assessment who has been tracking SpaceX’s rocket launches, said in an interview that he and others had long warned of the environmental risks to the surrounding region. But without a chemical analysis of the dust and debris, he added, it was difficult to say whether or not they were harmful to human health….

Mr. Roesch, who runs the environmental policy blog ESG Hound, said he believed the dust and debris came largely from a giant crater formed during the rocket’s liftoff. Normally, major launch sites are engineered with a trench or water system that helps to divert the rocket’s flame away from the ground and to dampen the impact, he said.

“They didn’t do that,” he said. “It appears they just went ahead and just launched this thing.”
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Everything Beagle said:
It’s really shitty the way he’s doing this. You know NASA didn’t crash a single Saturn V prototype? Because they cared about safety and science, not flashy self-aggrandizing events on Weed Day.

the lesson here is privatization of aerospace (or anything honestly) only leads to shitty products with lots of hype.
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But they also spent far more and took far longer to make progress.

Unfortunately NASA wasn't getting it done anymore. I'd prefer that they were and that the technologies created were publicly owned, but NASA was getting nowhere.
 
Other expressions

  • Fire : uncontrolled thermal event
  • Bursting : unplanned loss of containment
  • Crash : deconstructive deceleration
 
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Pretty stupid if you ask me.
 
It's funny to me how the left suddenly hates Elon Musk and wants all of his companies to fail because the TV told them to.
 
beast crnjo said:
It's funny to me how the left suddenly hates Elon Musk and wants all of his companies to fail because the TV told them to.
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I don't hate Musk at all. He's made some questionable decisions... But, historically, those tend to work out well for him.

He has sure screwed up TwiX.
 
Phatguysrule said:
I don't hate Musk at all. He's made some questionable decisions... But, historically, those tend to work out well for him.

He has sure screwed up TwiX.
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X is now the only free speech platform. I think it's much better now than it was before, when they were allowing government to illegally censor Americans. All the smears at him are retaliation for that.
 
beast crnjo said:
X is now the only free speech platform. I think it's much better now than it was before, when they were allowing government to illegally censor Americans. All the smears at him are retaliation for that.
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It's worth half what he paid... And it's only going to keep dropping in value.

He effed up, and he's still digging...
 
beast crnjo said:
X is now the only free speech platform. I think it's much better now than it was before, when they were allowing government to illegally censor Americans. All the smears at him are retaliation for that.
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Yes, letting Elon alone decide who posts is the superior solution. He knows best.

And the slings and arrows he's suffered because of it! He's like Jesus and Trump, only more of a martyr.

barfo
 
The people hand wringing about Musk probably like this movie.

What's the most dangerous animal on the planet? White people. Funny.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
TESLA ROBOT TERROR
ENGINEER ATTACKED AT FACTORY
'TRAIL OF BLOOD'
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Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
  • Data shows one in every 21 Giga Texas workers was injured on the job in 2022
  • And now an attorney aiding contract laborers at the factory tells DailyMail.com that there's evidence Tesla UNDER-REPORTED accidents to state regulators
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...ng-workers-hit-emergency-shutdown-button.html
 
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