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SpaceX’s Starship blew up after launch — it also caused ‘catastrophic’ damage on the ground -- (link)

Posted by decline (aka Decline) Apr 28 '23, 10:01

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https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/26/23699365/spacex-starship-damage-launch-pad-debris (www.theverge.com)

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If I were John de Lancie's Q, I would make it so no SpaceX rocket ever launches successfully again. -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 10:14 7
- You do realize that our space program is basically reliant on them at this point too, right? You’d be killing it too. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 11:04 4
  - So be it. -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 11:21 3
    - perhaps they never should have put their fates into the hands of a sociopath. -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 11:22 2
      - No, no, let's trust this Hugo Drax-Elliot Carver wannabe. He is a pioneer of ugly EV's, he can't be all that bad. (NM) - Marlowe Apr 28, 11:41 1
        
        [snork] -- nm - mud ♪ Apr 28, 11:42
- Why? He would LOVE to test Elon. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 10:19 1
  - lol he'd be no match for Q -- nm - Jovian Apr 28, 10:23
ELON SAYS EVERYBODY KEEP CLAPPING AND CHEERING GUYS -- nm - prayformojo 🐵 Apr 28, 10:10 3
- The comment I've seen is "this is what happens when you rush to launch a rocket on 4/20 as a joke" -- nm - Roger More Apr 28, 10:22 2
  - When alien or future archaeologists unpack our culture, they're going to have a lot of questions about the focus on certain numbers. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 28, 10:28 1
    - Numerology is as old as numbers are. -- nm - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 12:19
(To their own launchpad) - spamlet 🤦🏻‍♂️ Apr 28, 10:08 7
- I'm confused. Was there damage or not? (NM) - Marlowe Apr 28, 10:39 3
  - There was a photo of the ground under. Looking like a fortified bunker blown up by a direct hit cruise missile -- nm - zeitgeist Apr 28, 11:00
  - At minimum, the NASA Spaceflight folks lost their camera van due to debris -- (link) - JD Apr 28, 10:46
  - "Catastophic" was the launch site. Other damage wasn't catastrophic, but really shouldn't have happened. "The effects of the launch were felt in the - mara 🍂 Apr 28, 10:43
- Well, funded by government money (aka ours) - Will Hunting 🍔🍟🍔🍹🍷 Apr 28, 10:11 1
  - and the $30 or so billion that they managed to raise since 1990 - JD Apr 28, 10:36
- well, it also launched sand and other matter into the air, cause you know it destroyed the launch pad, which could cause problems now and in future -- nm - tRuMaN Apr 28, 10:10

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