Rod HiltonI have a feeling I'm about to get a lot of activity today
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Needs to be updated. Apparently he doesn't know much more than NASA about building rockets either.
Kevin Leecaster@beforewisdom @rodhilton @timberwraith
The government-funded Saturn rocket that took humans to the moon never had one blow up in flight, #JustSayin
The government-funded Saturn rocket that took humans to the moon never had one blow up in flight, #JustSayin
umaxtu@GreenFire @beforewisdom @rodhilton @timberwraith
So first, I'm a rocket nerd so I've got to get semantic (sorry).
This isn't meant to be a defense of Elon, because the man is an asshole at best. This is meant to be a defense of SpaceX's testing & development strategy. The starship blew up because it was told to because it lost control.
Traditional space programs such as the Saturn V, try to get everything perfect for the very first flight. This requires an insane amount of testing, modeling and simulations to try to predict and prevent every possible failure scenario. This is very slow and insanely expensive.
SpaceX on the other hand, still does lots of testing. (You can check out NasaSpaceFlight's livestream of SpaceX's McGregor test facility. But they prefer to start building and flying things earlier in the process. This starship is/was much earlier along in the development process than the Saturn V was by the time it first flew.
bassplayer@umaxtu @GreenFire @beforewisdom @rodhilton @timberwraith Suddenly people are against rocket reuse saying single use rockets are better? We should go with the SLS solution which was supposed to fly years ago but never did until recently costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars all so some Alabama senator can keep his constituents employed? How about recognizing Gwen Shotwell the woman who has made SpaceX the leader in the LEO payload industry.
@bassplayer @umaxtu @beforewisdom @rodhilton @timberwraith
All of a sudden Nazi supporters are coming out of the woodwork.
All of a sudden Nazi supporters are coming out of the woodwork.
@GreenFire @bassplayer @beforewisdom @rodhilton @timberwraith
Are you talking about the actual nazis involved with the space program like Von Braun? Or are you calling Musk a nazi?
@umaxtu @bassplayer @beforewisdom @rodhilton @timberwraith
ELoon associates with Nazis, promotes Nazis, and posts Nazi memes and conspiracy theories so yeah I think he's a Nazi, but maybe he's trying to take the Harlan Crow billionaire defense that he wants to associate himself with them without being accused of harboring their Ideology, idk.
ELoon associates with Nazis, promotes Nazis, and posts Nazi memes and conspiracy theories so yeah I think he's a Nazi, but maybe he's trying to take the Harlan Crow billionaire defense that he wants to associate himself with them without being accused of harboring their Ideology, idk.