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I had an unpopular opinion amongst friends that this thing looked like a total piece of shit, like a movie prop. They were using rented lifts and cranes to ass
by kev009 7y ago
I had an unpopular opinion amongst friends that this thing looked like a total piece of shit, like a movie prop. They were using rented lifts and cranes to assemble it in the field. Clock right twice a day or maybe there's a reason everything about Apollo spacecraft was meticulously assembled.
- cyrux004 7y agoI wish more smart people like you worked there.
- irrational 7y agoWell, it's not like this is rocket science. Oh, wait...
- cududa 7y agoYes because without this dude they would’ve never invented self landing reusable rockets
- kev009 7y agoThe guy was clearly being sarcastic. Woosh. I am as unqualified as Elon to strap humans to an explosion.
- bborud 7y agoDepends on what they're testing. Every single one of my electronics prototypes look like shit. About one five of them produce smoke and burn marks. Every twentieth does something dramatically unexpected (usually entertaining).
- JshWright 7y agoStarhopper looked just as "rough and ready" but completed a successful test flight a few months back.
- Klathmon 7y agoI have a feeling that they could blow up another dozen of these and still be spending less than doing it the "traditional" way of in cleanrooms and the VFAB building. This was a prototype that they've publicly said was most likely never to reach orbit, they are building this stuff right now to learn, test, and prove that their design works and find improvements that can be made.
- kev009 7y agoAny elementary student of history can tell you how bad an idea this is. Apollo 1 almost ended the program. A backlash in public opinion will crater SpaceX in the market and legislature. There is no space mission in the near decades worth the loss of human life. Economy in terms of money is no priority if you are to undertake human space flight. Move fast and break things is cute for a global search index or regressing public discourse and attention span; it's astronomically stupid and not acceptable for safety of human life. If this were a billionaire playboy stroking his ego and putting his own money and life on the line who cares. It's not, he's using my tax dollars and is going to hurt others for negligible gain.
- Klathmon 7y agoThey aren't using any tax dollars for Starship. It's entirely funded by their profits (at least as far as I know). And this Starship MK1 is/was a prototype designed to test some aspects of their design in the real world. It was never going to be anywhere close to taking people onboard. Even this incident had all people far away before they started doing anything like pressurising. This is active development, every single rocket company or program in existence has had explosions and test failures, and they will continue to have them. The important part is that they are doing this safely and nobody is getting hurt, these are controlled tests. It may not be the way you think rockets should be designed and built (I'm personally kinda skeptical that they will actually build the full prototypes/rockets outside like this), but it's not more dangerous than any other rocket company.
- kev009 7y ago
- newnewpdro 7y agoIt looking like a piece of shit is an unpopular opinion? I assumed that was a consensus. The thing isn't trying to win any beauty contests, it's covered in ugly seam welds. And none of that matters, not one bit.
- kev009 7y agoIt's not cosmetics. What kind of tolerances can you get dangling a massive assembly from a crane in the wind? How many people are cross checking the work? What kind of instrumentation are you using to check joint quality and integrity at these heights from a genie lift? It’s hard to shoot a stucco roof from a genie lift, I can’t help but laugh out loud at the assertion this is sane. Astronomically stupid.
- trixie_ 7y agoI laugh out loud at armchair engineers who think they have any real insight into a massive engineering development program like Starship. SpaceX has proven themselves over and over again of being more than capable of achieving their goals in light of people like you.
- kev009 7y agoYup let's see how the non critically thinking Musk fan thing works out for you in 10 years. People like Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman would be shaking their heads at these spectacles.
- trixie_ 7y agoYou were the guy who 10 years ago said electric cars and reusable rockets would never be practical. Meanwhile SpaceX is on their way to building a global internet constellation, have a working full flow combustion engine, and has multiple prototype Mars rockets in development. I'd love to take your 10 year bet. Easy money.
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- temptemptemp111 7y agoBecause it is a movie prop... Amazing how easy it is to scam engineers and so-called "smart people" these days. "You can tell it's real because it looks so fake" -- Elon They're opening mocking you all and you can't even tell!