r/bestof • u/CandidGrocer • 18d ago
[space] /u/maschnitz eloquently explains why the SpaceX Starship constantly explodes when it lands in the ocean
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u/Petrichordates 18d ago
Guy who obsessively loves SpaceX explains why SpaceX's failures are actually successes.
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u/Fauglheim 18d ago
SpaceX has intentionally splashed the starship rocket in the ocean many times, usually after a successful test.
What do you think is happening?
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u/Petrichordates 18d ago
I think the SpaceX/Tesla nutjobs got upset at my comment, as they do with any comment that criticizes SpaceX
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u/TheNMore 18d ago
This is a forum by which we communicate via text, so it requires that we read what the others write.
When I spent 1/4 of the previous message conveying that I was not defending Musk, those were pertinent to the message, so it would have been useful for you to comprehend them.
You should endeavor to understand how the English language is used generally.
A good excuse is not a phrase that implies positive connotation, if anything it’s damning by faint praise.
Someone can mildly disagree with you/ see things from a slightly different perspective and also agree with you mostly. This is an important life lesson there, hope you happen to read it.
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u/rifthrowawayrif 18d ago
How did you manage to Uno reverse into the more obnoxious one in that exchange? Impressive.
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u/TheNMore 18d ago
Let’s give them “it’s a good excuse” on this one because it is.
Musk is an obvious liar and has been forever, please don’t take this as defending him”
“It explodes because it falls over, we’re landing it on water, so it will definitely fall over, this is just practice for when we do it on dry land, which we won’t fall over on, promise” is a pretty good excuse for this particular set of failures, and might even have some basis in reality.
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u/reddit_names 17d ago
These aren't failures, and constantly calling them that just makes people not take redditors seriously.
It's never been designed to survive laying over. It's manufactured standing up and transported standing up, and they've even gone so far as say if they just laid it over at any point for any reason it would be ruined.
People expecting it to survive a water landing are the ones with the failure.
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u/TheNMore 17d ago
Everything Musk does is a failure, because allowing any one person to have the ability to deploy that amount of capital is a failure from the jump.
Him especially, born rich, apartheid enjoyer, misogynist, profoundly stupid, open drug addict,
It’s a failure in its own right because they are aiming for the ocean, that’s a public good they are polluting for absolutely no gain for us. There’s only a slim chance they’ll ever succeed. (If they had any confidence in putting the rocket where they wanted to why not land it in a flooded quarry somewhere?)
Space travel is probably the second worst idea humanity has ever had, besides capitalism, so it’s hard not to view any attempts to go there as a failure generally.
The only thing being able to go to space has changed in our day to day lives is data moved around the planet faster and directions without any map reading skills. The drug addled fool can direct huge amounts of our industrial capacity towards things that aren’t even problems,going to space is mostly a vanity project, while we instead just stand by as we cook the only biosphere we’ve ever seen in the entire universe.
So, just because the guys doing it said their toy would always break when used that way, doesn’t stop it from being a failure, it might just be a good excuse.
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u/Petrichordates 18d ago
And these people will always find a way to praise and defend SpaceX regardless. It's a bit of a cult.
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u/Fauglheim 18d ago
I’m just asking what you think is happening.
What are they failing at? Their giant rocket seems to be coming along quite nicely.
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u/fureinku 17d ago
They are here for an emotional exchange, not an intellectual one, so I wouldnt expect an answer.
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u/Petrichordates 17d ago
Crashes are failures honey, not intended. The cult will always praise SpaceX because they can't understand that any alternative is better.
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u/reddit_names 17d ago
This wasn't a crash. It literally did exactly what they planned it to do.
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u/Fauglheim 17d ago
In your opinion, how many attempts are necessary to perfect an experimental, reusable, 150m tall rocket?
For context, Starship has been launched 14 times. The booster has landed three times. The starship has landed intact once.
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u/reddit_names 17d ago
During testing, as many times as it takes. If the Internet existed when NASA was first making spaceshios in the 60's this lot would have been completely insufferable.
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u/Ilikeyounott 17d ago
Weird how you are the only one with the cultish behavior here 😅
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u/Petrichordates 17d ago
Cultish is when you criticize Musk's company lmao 🤣😂😅
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u/Ilikeyounott 17d ago edited 17d ago
No, it's when you go and spout nonesense just because Musk is a disgusting human being.
He can be a piece of shit and spacex rockets can be not designed for water landing. The two are not exclusive.
But please, keep calling anyone that calls you out.. a bot employed by Musk (I see you edited your message 😂). Totally not cultish behaviour either 👍
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u/maschnitz 17d ago
For what it's worth, I'm more of a space nerd/obsessive rather than a SpaceX fanboy per se. Most of my comments in the /r/space question thread have nothing to do with SpaceX.
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u/Suchamoneypit 17d ago
It's just basic physics and engineering. The comment very clearly explains so that a child could understand. If you are still truly that confused if you asked some questions people would answer. You literally have to understand how a soda can works. If you can't grasp any of these concepts then you should not be publicly commenting about it because you look like a complete fool.
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u/vengeancecube 17d ago
Imagine a 15-story tall building filled with explosive fuel falling over. It's going to explode. Frankly it's kind of incredible that the one didn't. People forget how big this thing is.