Flipboard News DeskSpaceX's uncrewed Starship explodes four minutes into launch attempt. CNN has a live blog with the latest updates: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/spacex-starship-rocket-launch-04-20-23/index.html
⁰FisherTX14As I predicted.
Kevin ChadwickFor starters they should be using the Ada language in Spark mode and certainly not C that the NSA is recommending dropping for general use, never mind space rockets 🫢
Nico 
@kevlar700 @NewsDesk They’re using some kind of language I’ve never heard of like “ Rapid unscheduled disassembly”
Last night after a curry I had a rapid unscheduled disassembly in the toilet
Laux Myth (aka Martin)@NewsDesk At first glance, I read that as ‘unscrewed’ which may not have been entirely wrong. Far more traffic for this on the bird site but not gonna add anything there.
Musta dawned on me thusly@NewsDesk SpaceX said it "learned a tremendous amount"
Maybe not enough. I think the "clear the launch pad" test fell short in that all the engines didn't ignite... which was important to see what "the most powerful rocket engine ever" would do to the launch pad (recall the most powerful engine to date, in Artemis, wrecked the launch pad a few months ago).