You said "unexpected catastrophic explosive failures". But 1. They were not unexpected. They very very clearly communicated months ahead. 2. "Catastrophic" is

You said "unexpected catastrophic explosive failures". But 1. They were not unexpected. They very very clearly communicated months ahead. 2. "Catastrophic" is a bit much too, as they were indeed expected and planned for. In fact, the biggest failure in the Starship development was that the rocket did NOT explode fast enough once. 3. "Failures". Well.. no. These are prototypes intended to learn from. Experiments if you will. A scientist that never has a negative result is a fraud. Same here.