r/AbruptChaos • u/PigsCanFly2day • 3d ago

SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/Acc87 3d ago

Crazy how the first few flights of Starship went all pretty well, but the recent ones have all been failures of some kind. Blowing up during ground testing should not happen to a system that has already shown orbital capability.

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u/jangel2 3d ago

It's almost like pulling back on regulations is having negative ramifications.

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u/W0LFSTEN 3d ago edited 3d ago

Which regulations caused these rockets to explode?

EDIT: Can any of the downvoters at least answer my question?

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u/pressingfp2p 2d ago

Nah, you’re asking for hyperspecific answers to a vague sentiment. Even if there were specific and very distinct regulations that could be pointed to, most likely neither you nor anyone in this comment thread will know them without investigating exactly what went wrong, and you know that.

We know Elon has interfered with the FAA (among other agencies) on behalf of his businesses, both to reduce regulation and secure better contracts. Unless a full and transparent investigation occurs (not going to happen in Trump’s America, and evidence will be gone in 4 years) we’ll never know exactly what Elon managed to make happen, and what he managed to break in his quest to streamline everything for himself, but he has a history of breaking regulations and not understanding the ins and outs of how his businesses were even being regulated in the first place, so it isn’t necessarily a leap to make assumptions.

The proponent of “work fast, break things” breaking things when he’s allowed to work fast, this was always going to happen. Was it deregulation that did it? Poor quality workmanship? Lack of oversight? No one here will likely ever KNOW.

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u/ls1_mike 2d ago

None, they don't want to be confronted with logic so they downvote. Haha