How many times does this gotta happen before we start calling them missiles instead of rockets?
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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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.
That's his only redeeming feature...that he'll be dead one day.
Musk's starships are blowing up like his reputation 😂
Break out the marshmallows
Rocket fuel is toxic. Don't cook with it. Don't touch or breathe it. Don't even look at it.
Once it's burned it's mostly safe, aside from the usual problems with combustion products.
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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.
Hardly. Honda have just replicated what Falcon 9 has been doing every week for years.
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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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That's better efficiency. It gets to the blowing up part faster than before
It's not a starship, at best it's a low Earth orbit ship.
For a couple of minutes.
Well, now it's recycling, right?
Can you smell burning Spock.
I dunno, what does burnt Spock smell like?
Bacon
Green bacon.
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.
Honestly, rocket development has always been filled with explosions - the Saturn V had like 6 engine-out events during Apollo and the early Falcon 9 tests were just as explosive. what's different now is we get to see the failures in HD livestreams instead of classified footage that would've been buried in the 60s.
Comparing an engine out where the mission went on without issue and a huge fireball on the pad is apples and oranges.
Is the bee okay?
Iterations are getting more frequent, which is a good sign, right? Right?
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.
If I worked building rockets for him, I'd make sure they didn't lift off too.