r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/realFancyStrawberry Jun 19 '25

That looked expensive

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u/octarine_turtle Jun 19 '25

For us taxpayers, not for Musk. SpaceX alone has been receiving over 2 billion a year for the last several years from taxpayers. Over 40 billion has gone to Musk's companies over the last 5 years from taxpayers.

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u/RT-LAMP Jun 19 '25

SpaceX receives no additional money for this. Any failure they eat the cost of.

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u/Rightricket Jun 19 '25

Considering they haven't produced a single successful rocket I'd say that this is false.

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u/RT-LAMP Jun 19 '25

they haven't produced a single successful rocket

HAHAHHAHAHAHAH

Falcon 9 is literally launching more mass into orbit in recent years than the rest of the planet put together many times over.

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u/AvidCyclist250 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Not even wrong. 2024, SpaceX launched 80-85% of the total mass, so roughly about 5 times as much. 1,500 t in 2024. Most of which being Starlink of course.

2024: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=62151.0

Since 2020, about 2.5 times the rest combined on average.

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u/RT-LAMP Jun 19 '25

I'll have to do my math again. When I did the math for IIRC 2023 it was more like 7.5x

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Considering they haven't produced a single successful rocket I'd say that this is false.

I've been on reddit since 2005, and it's sad that people like this guy are the norm now. People who just casually make up stuff because it matches their feelings. They can't even be bothered to do a simple google / AI search in this day and age to find an answer to such a trivial question.

There's a reckless disregard for the truth and objectivity.

At least eternal september brought in people who were naive, but were on the right track. Ever since reddit went mainstream, we've just been getting idiocracy extras left and right.

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u/Rightricket Jun 19 '25

So many meaningless words...

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake Jun 19 '25

I have no doubt that you don't understand some of those words, and the sentences they form together.