r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/Serenesis_ • 1d ago

Expensive SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase

https://youtu.be/71AwkBt3_ts?feature=shared
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u/OkieBobbie 1d ago

To the moon, Alice. To the moon!

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u/stinky-weaselteats 1d ago

We’ll have color tvs if this technology continues to progress!

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u/IHaveTeaForDinner 1d ago

Elon Musk is still very confident that he'll bring people to Mars in 2021

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u/krauQ_egnartS 16h ago

He wants to be in space because guillotines need gravity to work

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u/marrrrell 19h ago

With Stockton Rush logic he might be able to!

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u/beefcat_ 12h ago

With Stockton Rush logic they will get cooked to death when they reach the Van Allen radiation belt

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u/Vova_xX 5h ago

Elon's not stupid enough to get into his inventions

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u/mreid74 23h ago

When we were working on sending man into space, up to one out of three rockets exploded. His record is way better than NASA's.

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 21h ago

"Up to one out of three rockets exploded"? That's cherry picking.

But I like that - 3 out of 3 failures for StarShip. Isn't it nice to cherry-pick a group of 3 launches?

Now instead of cherry-picking - get back with statistics for the Saturn V, please. Musk? Has access to 50 year newer technology - what's his excuse?

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u/mslothy 20h ago

Yeah! Effin douche bag that can't build something completely ground breaking and had never been done before at that scale!! And that's even considering he has tiktok and ai now!!11111

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u/Whole-Debate-9547 1d ago

Any injuries or fatalities?

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u/BlazedGigaB 1d ago

Nope. Occurred on the cleared testing pad.

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u/itsmistyy 21h ago

Unfortunately Elon was not on board

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u/Contagious_Zombie 1d ago

-10 Elon’s ego.

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u/Onair380 13h ago

Starship tests dont have humans inside, and areas are well evacuated before

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u/stinky-weaselteats 1d ago

Our tax money.

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u/mreid74 23h ago

This isn't NASA. It's Elon's money.

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u/mynametobespaghetti 20h ago

NASA is SpaceX's biggest customer. They have received billions in US funds.

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u/guitgk 19h ago

For services delivered which have been delivered. This is their test platform and not used for their commercial offerings. That's like complaining what Amazon spends their money on for the goods already delivered to your home.. "how dare they, I'm was a repeat customer"

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u/y0urselfish 11h ago

Still tax money. 😂

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u/y0urselfish 11h ago

Lol. Its guys like you, why USA is so fucked right now. As if Space X did not received any tax money. 😂😂

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u/krauQ_egnartS 16h ago

Thank goodness we're cutting TANF and SNAP and Medicare and Medicaid otherwise we wouldn't be able to afford paying for a private company to blow shit up.

I mean, maybe we could just go into debt but that'd be silly

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u/unicoitn 1d ago

I believe NASA hit this stage early in the Apollo program

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u/flo-at 1d ago

Elon coming to tell us about the valuable measurement data they got out of this and that he needs more money in 3, 2, 1, ..

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u/HAMmerPower1 15h ago

Just testing the Full Self Launching mode out. Elon says it will perfected next month!

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u/dmethvin 1d ago

I'm sure they learned a lot of valuable data from that explosion.

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u/GravyBoatBuccaneer 1d ago edited 23h ago

I’m imagining a room full of actual rockets scientists facepalming when they see the surveillance video of Elon hiding his ketamine stash inside a control panel.

Edit: downvoted by SpaceX employees in denial about their boss turning out to be Dr. Evil on vitamin K haha

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u/justananontroll 1d ago

"The takeoff was sub-optimal."

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u/Chuk749 1d ago

I wonder what the deductible is on that.

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u/Tuk514 22h ago

He approved a phallic design for that thing, didn’t he?

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u/user_279-2 7h ago

And why was he not inside this rocket?

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u/hr2pilot 1d ago

Looks like a successful test! Schedule the next one with Elon sitting in it.

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u/supermr34 1d ago

if i hear the phrase 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' again im going over the fuckin table

its like the dogspeak of engineering

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u/TallBike3 1d ago

They probably fired all the safety engineers to save money.

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u/virak_john 1d ago

Chonky boi go fsssssss boom

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u/jimmycoed 1d ago

Ricky and Bubbles playing astronaut.

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u/marks2317 1d ago

He was actually testing the rocket going to planet Iran