The bad news: another SpaceX Starship exploded spectactularly.
The good news: it blew up on the ground, so it’s not raining fiery debris down on the Caribbean.
Other good news: that’s Elon Musk’s reputation going kabooooom.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
See, progress after all!
Luckily, no one seems to have been anywhere near this thing when it blew up, would have been much less funny.
Also goodnit was only the upper stage, no idea what the blast radius would have been with the first stage’s fuel!
This Major Anomaly should be cashiered! I’m assuming he’s a Trump appointee.
Repeat posting from the Infinite Thread:
Honda Launches A Reusable Rocket And It Didn’t Even Explode
American tax dollars pay for this, but not for the Trans suicide hotline.
Meanwhile, in Austin, Texas, Tesla has stopped manufacturing Tesla Cybertrucks. Muskrat bragged Tesla could manufacture 25,000 – 500,00 Cybertrucks per year. They have produced 46,000 to date.
That’s the first bit of good news I’ve seen in days.
No doubt lots of engineers and technicians are getting yelled at by the guy who demanded a rush job.
I actually saw a cybertruck in Morris. It looked ridiculous.
@PZ, #8
There’s several in my town. I laugh every time I see one. People who thought the Pontiac Aztec was ugly didn’t know what was coming…
At this point the Musk-stans are shouting “They’ll learn from their failures.” Yeah, at this rate, the nerds at Space X must be damn near omniscient right now.
I’ve seen plenty of Wank-panzers prowling the streets in the Waukesha/Suburban-Milwaukee area. One of them–I shit you not–has a wrap to make it look like the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazard. Ugh.
We live in a capitalist society.
At issue isn’t ‘how many failures will it take for them to learn’ but ‘how many failures will it take for our government (which is subsidizing this folderol) to learn’. If they continue to get paid, then there is no motivation to do better. Give us money -> we give you lovely explosions. Isn’t that neat-o?
@11 seachange is right.
We say: The muskrat is a nasty kid playing irresponsibly with huge fireworks. The american taxpayer has poured billions into his make-it-up-as-you-go disasters and he has showered huge areas of this planet with toxic waste and never taken responsibility. PULL THE PLUG, ALREADY.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX had an even more spectacular failure than his last spectacular failure last night. Whoa!! Not only did his latest Starship blow up, but fuel tanks nearby caught fire as well.
Pierce R. Butler@7:
Well, hopefully a few more of the engineers will take a hike then. The competent people seem to have mostly left SpaceX by now, if Mux drives out the rest, things might end without anyone getting killed by this oversized fireworks.
Akira MacKenzie@10:
Yeah, I found someone comparing the latest disaster with Goddard’s experiments to design the first liquid fuelled rocket ever. “New technology never works the first time!” Hilarious.
In my area, some of the Tesla cars have bumper stickers that read:
“I bought this car before we knew Elon Musk was crazy.”
This is common everywhere now.
A few days ago, I saw a Tesla car with the back car medallion (or emblem or badge) removed, which for Tesla is a stylized metallic T.
This is to disguise it.
This is also common.
More ambitious people put on the car trademark of another car company.
This works because Tesla styling is generic, nothing really stands out.
A significant number of the world’s population will never buy anything associated with…Elon Musk.
The regular Teslas are fairly plain, kinda like an electrified Ford Taurus. I don’t like seeing them because the Musk connection.
Cybertrucks are a hideous abomination. The wraps don’t help.
Environmental disaster.
yet the stock price is still …where? why is the valuation anything more than 1/10 of Volkswagen? without government subsidies, spacex isn’t profitable (neither is Tesla automotive division) I suspect the same is true for tesla solar and starlink… and X has never made a dollar in profit. It’s all grift and suckling on uncle sam’s teat