MAYBE if we Cut the FAA and OTHER Regulatory agencies it'll not Explode next Time?
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Musk is going to be PISSED when he finds out there is no bureau of physics he can subsume or destroy from within. I believe one Rush Stockton came to a similar conclusion, if he indeed had time for that conclusion to even form before perishing.
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People really put the faith of the entire American space program on Elon. It would be funny if it wasn't so stupid.
It's less that people are putting faith in Elon (sure, some fanatics might be), but it's that everyone else is somehow even worse.
SpaceX is actually getting stuff to space, despite their prototypes blowing up. Hell, even if this Starship thing is a complete failure and never works, their existing rocket, the Falcon, is still far beyond any of the competition.
The SLS: $10 Billion and a decade late to develop a ship that recycles old Space shuttle parts, then costs $2-3 Billion per launch, and maybe can only launch one every 2 years.
ULA Vulcan: currently years late, still finding problems, and even after all that gets worked out, it can maybe do 6 launches a year?
SpaceX: 1-2 launches per week.
That's not faith, that's just facts. I would absolutely love to have somebody else step up and take SpaceX's crown, but... there really isn't anybody. Bezos's Blue Origin may have the biggest chance, but they are more likely to act like ULA than SpaceX.
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Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.
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My feed rn:
I would ride a Honda rocket a hundred times before ever setting foot on anything developed by SpaceX
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It's not perfect, but capitalism is the best system we've got. It is only through competition on the free market that we would arrive at a space program this efficient and innovative. Imagine if the government tried to do this! They would've blown up a 100 rockets by now with nothing to show for it, and it would've cost tax payers billions of dollars. The innovation of SpaceX is humanity at it's finest. For thousands of years we've looked up at the sky, and wondered what's there, and now, thanks to the engineering chops of Elon Musk, it is within our grasp. Imagine that, sending a person to space. Maybe someday we'll even be able to put someone on the moon!
The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.
Such a remarkable achievement! We should put capitalists on the Starship ASAP so they can enjoy the fruits of "their" labor!
Ngl, had me in the first half.
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I think Honda has begun building spaceships/rockets too. Think they chose to build the type that don't explode. link
Japanese cars are superior to American cars, why wouldn't their rockets be?
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It's getting more efficient by the day. They used to have to launch it into the air before it had blow up. This way it saves time
It’s not a big deal when you’re blowing up someone else’s money with no real accountability.
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Was he on it? If he was this is a complete success.
If he wasn’t.
Better luck next time I guess?
Elon is stupid, but I'm thinking he's not so stupid as to board one of his own rockets.
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Waiting for the SpaceX bros to tell everyone how this was actually a good thing because it was supposed to happen and means everything is going well.
As long as nobody was harmed they could blow up a hundred rockets for all I care. Maybe it'll even help with competition, like make other companies switch launch vehicles, so it might be a good thing (just not for them) lol
People live around there, so harm is definitely being done to the air they breathe and the environment they live in.
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It's kinda fun to be living in a time where rockets regularly blow up again. Apart from, you know, everything else going on and not wanting astronauts to die.
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How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
If you told me that I'd be cheering for space rockets exploding 10 years ago I would have called you crazy. Incredible how much damage that fiend has done to our society.
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I'm all for mankind colonizing the stars, but I don't want that A hole down a K hole Elmo involved in any way. I don't trust the cunt not to have a back door into the colony, that he opens whenever his fee fee's get hurt, or if his K hole runs dry.
Oh please. Elon will long be dead before we are ever seriously colonizing mars.
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that's how we know Musk isn't a Nazi, Nazis could make rockets.
/s
(he is a nazi, just an incompetent one)
Unplanned rapid disassembly?
The next explosion will occur on the assembly line. Now I call that progress!
Thoughts and prayers... lol
I now have the Street Fighter voice in my head going:
"Honda Wins!"
For the killjoy that will come pointing out that SpaceX is at another level of development etc., yes, I know that. Japan also has a constitution written by the US that doesn't permit them to have long-range missiles.
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oh no! anyway...
We can't even handle being a multi-country species, maybe Elon should dial back the sci-fi "multi-planet" miniseries playing in his head...
It’s certainly not Honda-level reliability.
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