Sweet zombie Jebus…I just read WHY there was such catastrophic damage at the launch pad…NO FLAME TRENCH, NO WATER CURTAIN!!!
It seems Elon, on a guesstimate, decided the most powerful rocket ever built didn’t need any method of deflecting the thrust away from the plain concrete launch pad. He did plan to eventually try a huge steel plate under the rocket, but couldn’t get it done so just launched anyway with NOTHING.
NASA has been using both for over 50 years with success. A flame trench is a reinforced trench designed to redirect thrust horizontally away from ground infrastructure. A water curtain is exactly what it sounds like, a huge curtain of water dropped at ignition that absorbs the initial pressure/heat wave, also minimizing damage to ground infrastructure and lowering initial sound levels.

Why Elon decided he needed neither for the most powerful launch system ever is unfathomable. His launch pad is destroyed and this launch never even came close to 100% thrust. How many times does Elon have to totally screw the pooch as an engineer before they take his drafting table away? He’s playing with public money, somebody stop this insanely poorly implemented boondoggle please.

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The damage was so massive that they have to rebuild entire portions of the Texas Launch Site. It's quite possible that the immediate failure of several engines on one side was caused by debris from the launch pad.

How build launch durable pads, especially when using powerful engines, isnt something we have to learn first by making mistakes. This is basic engineering 101 at NASA.

While i still cant get enough from vertically landing rocket stages and i deeply respect the work of Space-X engineers ... this ongoing, absolute reckless launch safety strategy (or should i say the lack of) does not bode well for manned missions.

If they learned anything then it would be a success. I think some of the engines didn't ignite which made it climb slowly and forced it to go off course.

It was said that the nose cone was added just for looks, it really didn't serve any purpose.

The launch pad and surrounding area was a mess with debris and a car was damaged some distance away from the launch pad.

The way everyone cheered I'm thinking nobody expected too much from this flight and it did better than expected.

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It looks like we're all Bay Area refugees!

My Camaro was a shark-nose '97.

For classics, I owned a '73 Charger SE and I loved me the hell out of that car, too. It was the size of an aircraft carrier and the engine compartment was bigger than my condo. The scariest thing about that car was how easily the back end would come around in a sharp turn. The first rains of the year were a horror show when the pavement was like oiled glass. "Am I gonna beat that red? Gun it! ... uh-oh."

Now I drive a Mazda 3 and responsibly. Getting old sucks.

You are such a dishonest moron. Just the biggest lying douche bag I’ve ever encountered, and the stupidest.

You yourself claim there is…but you say it’s against conservative white men because they are losing their monopoly on power, impunity, and control and you obstinately won’t see it when it’s systematically directed against those that have never had much power or control.
Have you forgotten how you think Jan 6 defendants were subjected to uncountable injustices by the system? That’s systemic social injustice according to you.
Don’t you know Trump’s excuse for his pending indictment is the system full of “radical viscous racist prosecutors” is engineering social injustices against conservatives? That’s systemic racism according to him.
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Google Rasheem Carter and give another plausible explanation.

Wrap your head around that, it’s completely empty, you can fit it in….not that it will help since you wish to remain comatose, forever asleep dreaming nonsense, never Woken.

Gotta give it to the camera crew having to be out in that cold, windy, snowy weather and all that steel. Those engines are bad ass looking.

Nice dramatic music.

The thing was way too loud for recreational use. It also wasn't stable in wind and never had a safety system implemented so when there was a failure you just fell out of the sky from 100 feet up.

The 45 minute running time is very optimistic. The amount of thrust for fuel burned ( 0.683 lb/lbf/h) is not efficient. The engine also only provided 600lbs of thrust where the entire system weighed just over 400 lbs without fuel or a pilot.

No conspiracy, just not financially and technically useful enough to garner further development.

The Wikipedia article give a lot of good technical details, you can also look up the patent. A little data and common sense can easily overcome the drama created by overly dramatic music.

Stop re-posting thoroughly *debunked *Russia anti-American propaganda you already know for certain is bullshit, bobski.

What happened to yesterday’s “Quit looking stupid and just wait for reality to catch up to the fake news --- IE post when news is real.”? Can’t follow your own advice for one minute, snowflake. You instantly post more Russian propaganda with zero facts involved.



https://videosift.com/video/Why-You-Always-Lying

Every detail of his fictional “story” has been proven not just false, but many completely impossible. Many of the assets he claims were used are mothballed without engines, the rest tracked in real time by publicly available data elsewhere…the theory that Ukraine hit it makes more sense, but is also likely impossible...but bobski doesn’t care, it’s a pro Russia anti American story he can repeat, so he will, truth and facts be damned. Been there, done that.
Edit: did he say 9/11 was a bombing by al qaeda, not suicide hijackings!?! 🤦‍♂️

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