We put Elon on the next one
SpaceGate
As much as I really really hate that asshole, this was a success. The hot staging technically worked and the Starship got to space. Iterate on the booster top heat management and fix whatever went wrong with Starship and it will be fine.
Wow you’re exactly right. Why don’t they just take what’s broken and fix it
That’s exactly why testing is needed. You can calculate a ton of things but you only know through testing, when and where things fail. Then you iterate and test again.
The fuck you think they’re doing?
Another iteration and another test launch, duh
I guess it’s the good old ‘fail fast’ strategy.
He’s using the same strategy with the app formerly known as Twitter. Only there, he’s really testing every wrong path.
Fuck Musk, first and foremost, but this flight has been a success, they have successfully separated the booster which was very cool to see.
I would say the rocket is ready for billionaires who want to beta test it.
Paywall.
What happens next?
A rich asshole keeps raping the corpse of TRW in hopes of becoming a land baron of LEO activity. All while America’s gov lets him, cause capitalism and a fear of possible overreach (aka no real ethical guidance) means he’s too rich to be touched.
All while the internet gets flooded with hate speech, the skies ruined by satellite constellations, the soil polluted from rockets that can’t even reach orbit (despite nasa’s previous progress) and that’s not even counting the gemstone mining… etc.
