Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Apr 23, 2023
I knew Elon would have had something to do with what happened to the #Starship on 4/20.
His macho disregard for the Environment and Safety meant he dismissed calls for a 'firing trench', subsequently the firing of Starship's rockets kicked up a load of debris which took out some of the engines and caused the irregularity in flight that necessitated self destruct.
The guy is a fucking liability and #SpaceX needs to drop him.
That's your story Media.
Show threadNow at @[email protected]Apr 23, 2023

@Lazarou @kcarruthers And I'll give you exactly one guess at who, at SpaceX, decided to make 4/20 the launch date.

Get it? 420?

Seriously, what kind of CEO at a major rocket firm would insist on a 20th April launch, ready or not, to make a juvenile "420" joke?!

Show threadMugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️Apr 23, 2023

@ajsadauskas @Lazarou Not to defend Musk, but he personally didn't choose the launch date.

The timing of the launch is based on weather conditions and the orbit of the Earth.

Show threadSquisholasApr 23, 2023
@MugsysRapSheet @ajsadauskas @Lazarou yes and it was after a wet launch on Monday.
Show threadFrançois Caron 🇨🇦Apr 23, 2023
@honyell @MugsysRapSheet @ajsadauskas @Lazarou And the launch itself was still a success because it gave them a ton of data on which to work out the issues with the vehicle.
Show threadMugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️Apr 23, 2023

@Milnoc @honyell @ajsadauskas @Lazarou

"The launch [that we had to blow up] was a success b/c of all the data we gathered from it."

That claim has more spin than the rocket itself as it cartwheeled 39KM above the FL coast. 🤦‍♂️

Show threadSquisholas
@MugsysRapSheet @Milnoc @ajsadauskas @Lazarou You sound like John Hickam (Chris Cooper) in October Sky.
Truth is, we wouldn't be where we are without incidents like this one. It's unfortunate but it is the best and fastest way to learn from something never done before in all human kind. We learn so much from our aeronautic and aerospace mistakes. We push the limit and we pay the price but we never give up and always keep moving forward.
Apr 23, 2023 at 10:26pmWeb
Show threadMugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️Apr 23, 2023

@honyell @Milnoc @ajsadauskas @Lazarou SpaceX has a failure rate between 10%-15%. That's exponentially higher than NASA ever had.

NO ONE is going to feel safe going up in a SpaceX rocket, and companies/countries who want to launch private satellites into orbit aren't going to risk hundreds of millions at those odds.

If their success rate doesn't improve, NASA is going to start looking elsewhere.