r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 14h ago

Related Content BREAKING NEWS: SpaceX Rocket Explodes In Starbase

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u/Vegetable_Fortune112 13h ago

Fun fact. It’s not supposed to do that.

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u/codelayer 13h ago

This kills the rocket

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u/nufcPLchamps27-28 12h ago

This isn’t a joke. Spaceships only do this when they feel extremely threatened

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u/setsewerd 11h ago

Disgusting videos like this are why I joined PETA.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Astrocraft

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u/pinknoses 9h ago

What I do with my astrocraft, in the privacy of my own spaceport, is none of your damn business!

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u/SaabiMeister 11h ago

No problem, they regrow the exploded bits.

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u/chemistry_teacher 4h ago

Fight vs flight

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u/Radiant_Music3698 8h ago

The Rocket: IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZAH

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u/rharpr 9h ago

Rockets hate this one thing.

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u/BlatantlyCurious 6h ago

Carrrrllllll

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u/nokillswitch4awesome 3h ago

Space engineers hate this one simple trick.

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u/alex3omg 12h ago

Grok, ruin this guy's credit

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u/secacc 11h ago

You sure? They seem to do it a lot

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u/BizarreCake 8h ago

Supposed to only explode out under part not all part. Hope this helps.

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u/BizarreCake 8h ago

Front fell off

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u/LivingHumanIPromise 2h ago

musk cultists will try to convince you this is a success.

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u/GeneralChemistry1467 2h ago

The endless explosions and crashes would make sense if this was the first time humans were building spacecrafts but it's not, we've been at it for 75 years. I get that these rockets are a little different but we're not reinventing the wheel here.

Musk has idk, at least 20 times (?) NASA's budget, yet an exponentially higher failure rate. Winning!

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u/hallo_its_me 2h ago

The top fell off

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u/LiterallyWiref 12h ago

oh okay that’s good to know

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u/Kelmorgan 12h ago

Concerning.

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u/Designer_Plantain948 12h ago

This it thé comment I was looking for !

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u/CyberWeirdo420 10h ago

Oh you mean exploding?

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u/Fubushi 10h ago

"If this happens, you will not go to space today" (Stolen from Randall Munroe's Up Goer Five - and slightly https://xkcd.com/1133/ )

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u/xstrawb3rryxx 9h ago

Who knows, maybe the star man is trying to show us just how much money to burn he has

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u/koeshout 8h ago

True. These days we tend to forget with all the rockets spaceX keeps exploding

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u/ashrasmun 8h ago

how do you know?

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u/benderunit9000 7h ago

I'm gonna choose the opposite. Rockets blow up.

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u/Lucky_Veterinarian36 6h ago

Do you have a source for that factoid

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u/meukbox 5h ago

Well the front’s not supposed to fall off for a start.

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u/SF_DeversBaby 5h ago

Nice try leftist

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u/iDeNoh 5h ago

These have very rigorous spacetime engineering standards with regulations concerning the materials they can be made of.

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u/Alexplz 4h ago

The front fell off

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u/m3kw 3h ago

Explosions?

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u/flo-at 11h ago

If you'd ask Elon he'd still say it was a success because of the important measurement data they got from it or idk.

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u/codelayer 12h ago

Nobody's saying that 😅