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SpaceX Has Figured Out Why Starship Exploded
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- creer 2y ago"Fuel leak fire - meh we'll just vent it", "Much system blowed up - but that's not a sufficient reason to lose communications" - to me that highlights again the progress that has been made. The applications are not yet all that much more ambitious than they have been, but there has been so much progress in the engineering. Another view of that progress is the "launches this week" reports from Scott Manley et al: so much happening every week or month!
- AtlasBarfed 2y agoProgress for dear leader's vision. We will rain fire upon them with our superior rockets. Sympathy is for lesser people, the ubermensch shall take their rightful place in libertarian heavens.
- kcb 2y agoReally trailed off at the end there...only company and/or country even close to attempting a launch system of this scale and reusability. Embarrassment compared to who?
- askl 2y ago> Embarrassment compared to who? It's written in the article "the NASA of over 50 years ago". Also it's possible to be embarrassing without comparing to others.
- rohan_ 2y ago[flagged]
- watwut 2y ago> silicon valley engineering philosophy (rapid iteration and prototyping) Like so what. Fist, when your engineering philosophy causes collateral damage (debris, damaged property) then other people do not have to accept it with "oh, therefore it is cool". And second, avoidable failure is still avoidable failure.
- rohan_ 2y ago> Like so what. Fist, when your engineering philosophy causes collateral damage (debris, damaged property) then other people do not have to accept it with "oh, therefore it is cool". What collateral damage? Didn't the whole thing burn up on re-entry? Do you know how much meteorite material burns up in the earth's atmosphere every day? > And second, avoidable failure is still avoidable failure. huh? we're talking about risk profile and development velocity