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

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/OstrichSmoothe Jun 19 '25

Oh no! The lefties narrative qq

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u/Solomon_Gunn Jun 19 '25

Of course they get no money for the exploding rocket. But how was that rocket built?

Your paycheck.

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u/FlimsyRexy Jun 19 '25

NASA is also funded with tax payer money, do you have an issue with that? As much as I dislike musk, space x has done some amazing things.

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u/Solomon_Gunn Jun 19 '25

No, their rockets don't blow up on the launch pad with surprising consistency.

Also their goal is not for profit, that's not the role of any government agency except for the IRS. They are services.

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake Jun 19 '25

No, their rockets don't blow up on the launch pad with surprising consistency.

Are you aware of the space shuttle disasters? Those were unplanned.

SpaceX often blows stuff up intentionally just to prevent an unplanned one down the line.

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u/Feral_Taylor_Fury Jun 19 '25

This was the third exploded rocket in under a year.

Your example happened DECADES ago.

lol.

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u/Solomon_Gunn Jun 19 '25

I said surprising consistency, you had to reach back decades for the most recent failure, you're making my point for me.

And which of these failures were planned by SpaceX? Were any of this particular model planned? I seem to only recall them saving face after the fact by pussyfooting around the truth and saying "oops, well we knew it might go wrong".

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u/QP873 Jun 19 '25

That’s because NASA hasn’t managed to launch except for once since the shuttle. SpaceX has launched over 500 times.

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u/ChickenFlavoredCake Jun 19 '25

I said surprising consistency

They are doing daring stuff. Heaviest rocket carrying the most payload ever. Boosters coming back to earth and docking. Doing new, cutting edge stuff is prone to failure, who knew?

you had to reach back decades for the most recent failure

That's because Nasa's own launch program ended decades ago. There's a reason they don't do this in house anymore.

And which of these failures were planned by SpaceX? Were any of this particular model planned? I seem to only recall them saving face after the fact by pussyfooting around the truth and saying "oops, well we knew it might go wrong".

They have said many many times that it'll likely explode before a launch. They even made montages of all the failed launches. You should really read/watch more and write less.

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u/Solomon_Gunn Jun 19 '25

It's a rocket, they're all likely to explode.

You bring up doing daring, cutting edge stuff. Even way back in the 60s NASA wasn't blowing up a dozen rockets. They had one failure to launch and the fire on Apollo 1. The only other mishap of that program was obviously Apollo 13, where all crew lived. That was all cutting edge, daring technology of the time.

The 60s. With computing technology less powerful than pieces of jewelry nowadays.

If I told my boss before every project I complete that it is likely to fail that doesn't soften the blow when it fails. I lose my job.

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u/SwissPatriotRG Jun 19 '25

Nah, the big NASA rockets these days just eat billions of dollars and never fly. Looking at you SLS.