Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames

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Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames
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I've been against the space industry/NASA/etc's bullshit love of Elon's fucked up project ever since the idiot took over. If they can't see how he has mismanaged every single thing he's ever touched and pulled out of every single contract with them because of him, they have serious issues.

Maybe now NASA will come to their senses, kick SpaceX to the curb, and work with someone actually competent.

Please see my other comment in this same thread. It's not like Tesla or Twitter where they're clearing slipping and releasing bad product. Look at the actual accomplishments!

As much as we on lemmy might look down on consumers of conservative news, I'm really surprised by how similarly reflexive and uninformed a lot of the comments here are.

So that obliterated launchpad is just normal, then? That empty star ship launch that managed to tumble in space was normal? SpaceX alway cheering and laughing when rockets blow up is normal? SpaceX dominates because they receive our tax dollars. Without that, they'd be dead in the water long time ago

One only has to read any current news about how mismanaged SpaceX is and how many problems they are having to recant this "we love Elon and can't imagine not having our dicks all the way up his ass" attitude about SpaceX or anything that incompetent, privileged little shit runs.

Cry harder. Without SpaceX the US space industry would be worse than Russia right now. SpaceX launches hundreds of rockets per year and saves NASA millions in launch costs, and can actually launch people into space, unlike Boeing

Relying on a company so unpredictable and full of problems and errors is worse than not going to space at all. Your unnatural love for that laughable idiot Musk is going to get astronauts killed.

SpaceX makes the most reliable rockets in the world https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-has-set-a-record-for-most-consecutive-successes/

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-successful-commercial-rocket-launcher

Keep talking and making a fool of yourself

Also trying to conflate my defense of a rocket company for some sort of love for an oligarch is beyond stupid. Get some help, you need it.

Relying on arstechnica (full of bullshit) and GWR (sensationalistic bullshit) to prove your claim? How deep in Elon's asshole are you?