Omar IftikharApr 20, 2023
Casey Newton
This will be familiar to anyone who has been watching the rapid unscheduled disassembly of Twitter https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1649045802332073986?s=61&t=Vqm9FnxVwEfRYYt9aGnAeA
SpaceX on Twitter

“As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation”

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Apr 20, 2023 at 2:08pmIvory for Mac
Show threadKevin Patrick Doyle 🍅🥫Apr 20, 2023

@caseynewton I particularly enjoyed the live feed which was lots of cheering, silence as the spaceship broke, then lots of cheering again for the explosion.

Really summed up Elon fanboys quite well I thought

Show threadChuck Taggart, Private EyeApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton @Kevin WOOHOO! Blowed up good! Blowed up REAL good!
Show threadIsla_WrenApr 20, 2023
@Kevin @caseynewton For much of the cult members I wonder if (with rattly tonsils) "YEEEAH!!!" was their first word?
Show threadChris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Apr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Now that’s some Galactic level spin!
Show threadTankzzApr 20, 2023

@caseynewton it feels scheduled/on purpose though. What are you thoughts on Elon tanking Twitter into bankruptcy (to offload debt), then using the (at time of purchase) Twitter codebase to spin up his “X” everything app (WeChat clone)?

I’m not a bankruptcies expert, so not sure how much debt he could jettison, if he’s in fact doing this or something like this.

Show threadPPNApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton this is Orwellian language if I have ever seen it 😅
Show threadRandy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️Apr 20, 2023
@caseynewton this is a common joke SpaceX uses. Best to not read too much into it
Show threadTony 💉x10 🇦🇺Apr 20, 2023
@me1000 @caseynewton Indeed. Unlike Twitter, SpaceX has an adult in charge: Gwynne Shotwell.
Show threadKontributeGamingApr 20, 2023

@caseynewton the flips failure and explosion happened as it was supposed to seperate

So I guess seperation successful? 😆

Show threadNorth Easton Apr 20, 2023
@caseynewton blaze it
Show threadFabian SassonApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Time to head back to Twitter and partake a restorative firing or two
Show threadAmit SerperApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Incredible toot.
Show threadNoel WallingApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Oooh, burrrrn. 🔥
Show threadTrojan DuckApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton A rapid, unscheduled disassembly is also what will happen to your car engine if you run it low on oil
Show threadex or current IDF unwelcomeApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton why do Americans use so many words when they mean it was f**ked
Show threadAmygeekApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton How long until tweeting about this is shadow banned?
Show threadDanielTaylorApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton the time this post came to Casey is like the time the apple came to Isaac
Show threadstephen m 🍞🌹🇵🇸Apr 20, 2023
@caseynewton i guess they can easily use the same press releases
Show threadEric BuchmanApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton did the rocket have a tag on it that said “69% government funded”?
Show threadDoug WarrenApr 20, 2023

@caseynewton
That's not entirely fair. The explosion of the SpaceX Starship rocket was something that absolutely everyone saw coming, but were hoping against hope that it wouldn't.

The explosion of Twitter under Elon Musk, by contrast, was something that absolutely everyone saw coming, but were hoping against hope that it wouldn't, but also with more puerile gratuitous sexual innuendo and casual fascism and bad-faith hypocrisy.

Show threadDoug WarrenApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton
(I found the relative lack of puerile sexual innuendo on the SpaceX side especially surprising given that we're talking about the "world's most powerful rocket" here.)
Show threadBen LambApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton in rocketry, Rapid Unscheduled Disassemblies are often accompanied or preceded by Engine-rich Exhaust, in the case of Twitter I think it is more Engineer-rich Exeunt
Show threadLegionApr 20, 2023
@bennyfactor @caseynewton ENGINE-RICH EXHAUST I'm dying🤣
Show threadSimon 🪗Apr 20, 2023
@caseynewton you mean this _wasn't_ about twitter? ;-)
Show threadAppagal CrochetApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Starship fell apart almost as quickly as Musk's name!
Show threadDarryl RammApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Twitter layoffs were a failed main stage separation. 🚀🤷‍♂️
Show threadgavinisdie Apr 20, 2023
@caseynewton ceX
Show threadVincent WaciukApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Couldn’t handle the load of Elon’s massive ego.
Show threadChemicalTribeApr 20, 2023

@caseynewton
Oh no!

Anyway...

Show threadbysteveguthrieApr 20, 2023
@caseynewton Seriously...and on taxpayers dollars. Glad the hand outs work for him. :-S #loser
Show threadBlake 🇵🇸Apr 23, 2023
@caseynewton why are there 10 spaces before stage separation?
Show threadrennertwebApr 23, 2023
@caseynewton This was a test run for twitter, which is in the tumbling sequence recently