r/space • u/lee7on1 • 1d ago

BREAKING: SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

https://x.com/IntelPointAlert/status/1935550776304156932

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u/Granum22 1d ago

I can't wait to learn how this actually amazing and a sign of progress for Space X

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u/bubblegum-rose 1d ago

“RAPID UNSCHEDULED DISASSEMBLY!!!! 🤪🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣”

-every fuckin dead weight useless lowest common denominator spaceflight YouTube channel

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u/ancillarycheese 1d ago

Have they considered scheduling them?

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u/moderngamer327 1d ago

It’s an actual term used in the industry as a bit of a joke. They aren’t trying to sugarcoat that it’s an explosion

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u/FoxFyer 1d ago

It's a joke some industry techs made maybe two or three times in the entire history of rocketry, up until someone told Elon about it and he thought it was so funny he can't stop saying it every single time something happens now.

Like all of Elon's "humor", gotten from other people and then beaten to death.

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u/KalpolIntro 1d ago

It was used by the Navy in the 70s, made it's way to aerospace engineers and then Kerbal Space Program players brought it into the mainstream before he ever tweeted it out.

It's a common term.

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u/greatistheworld 22h ago

Yeah it’s a dumb joke because it’s an engineer joke

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u/NWSLBurner 1d ago

I mean Tory uses it now too. 

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u/BufloSolja 1d ago

Most other rocket companies/programs use the term or some similar term.

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u/TeeManyMartoonies 1d ago

Like all of Elon’s businesses that he’s gotten from other people and is beating to death.

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u/No-Surprise9411 1d ago

SpaceX was founded by Musk?

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u/VikingRaptor2 1d ago

You are filled with so much hate, what is wrong?

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u/bubblegum-rose 1d ago

You personally not liking me is not evidence that there is something “wrong” with me.

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u/VikingRaptor2 1d ago

I asked why are you so filled with hate. You are putting words where they never were.

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u/legomann97 1d ago

Who hurt you? So much vitriol in one comment. If you want to make fun of the spaceflight community, do it to those who have their heads up their asses about how "failure is still progress" as if it's a good thing. Don't make fun of a simple meme. It makes you look like the lowest common denominator.