• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    Woah! We should DEFUND MY CHILDS EDUCATION and give THIS Company BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of Dollars instead!

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        1 month ago

        I guess if the rocket hadn’t disassembled itself, then it could be used again.
        I think static fire is part of the testing to proceed to a launch? So, now they have to build another and static fire that as well in order to get back to where they should be.

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    1 month ago

    Reason number 75 people should always be well clear of these tests. When you build a rocket, you are essentially building a guided bomb that you are crossing your fingers doesn’t explode outside the chamber.

    Russia lost a good chunk of their rocket scientists in the early 1900s when a blast from one of these took put everything within like a mile radius.

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      1 month ago

      Reason number 75 people should always be well clear of these test.

      Yup, except for the really important guage that is installed on the pad, that only Elon musk is smart enough to be able to understand.
      He absolutely has to monitor that guage in realtime.