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Really? How many Starlink satellites have blown up? How many F9 second stages?

• altairprime 7mo ago
  There are a lot of better ways to present your point; for example: How many batteries supplied with Elon Musk’s companies’ products have encountered an unplanned combustion event after light or no damage? Does SpaceX use in-house or third-party batteries in their satellites? Is their explosion rate of 2(?) per N, where N is the number of unexploded SpaceX satellites, plausibly still within the statistical ranges defined by non-SpaceX satellites given the data available to us? Did the satellite deflect before it exploded or are the shard trajectories consistent with a zero-impact scenario? etc.
  • vrighter 7mo ago
    hate to be pedantic, but for 2 out of N, n would have to be the sum of all satellites including the exploded ones
    • altairprime 7mo ago
      You’re probably right but the question isn’t mine in the first place; look up some data and you’re set to discuss with OP. I was constructing communication examples, not mathematically-correct ones. Guess I did well enough at that!