The article was flagged because the article was trash. Just because it had a few correct points sprinkled in a misleading fashion among the rest doesn't mean th

The article was flagged because the article was trash. Just because it had a few correct points sprinkled in a misleading fashion among the rest doesn't mean the article was overall correct. The damage was expected, no one was hurt. A throw-away obsolete test article that was literally going to be shot full of holes and sunk to the bottom of the ocean was instead blown up and a temporary pad that is being replaced anyways got damaged, oh well. The primary objective of the test was to demonstrate a 33 engine start up and operational run at 100% throttle. There's all kinds of compounding effects that are hard to simulate (constructive interference is a bitch) and at some point the only way to get the data is to test. Even hitting MaxQ was a bonus, although this test article lacked many of the structural enhancements already incorporated into the production articles so it's not as useful as some think. Nothing that you see in Boca chica is in it's final form, almost everything there except the tower structure itself will be ripped out and replaced at some point.