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Nah engines are able to turn off after ignition. Thats what the Raptor safety is. Usually the blow or moment is when it lifts off the tower with one notable exc
by NikolaeVarius 6y ago
Nah engines are able to turn off after ignition. Thats what the Raptor safety is. Usually the blow or moment is when it lifts off the tower with one notable exception that I know of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_1
Technically the Shuttle go or blow moment is when the SRBs are turned on.
But yes, otherwise in the spirit, it will either blow up or be generally sucessful.
- aardvarkr 6y agoSo you’re saying that if the engines had been off the starship wouldn’t have exploded? Try again bud. That’s still an object full of compressed methane and liquid oxygen falling at terminal velocity.
- NikolaeVarius 6y agoThis is such a straw man that I don't even know where to begin to answer.
- valuearb 6y agoSo you are admitting that what Musk meant was they had a 2/3s chance of an explosion.