The rocket successfully got off the ground. In doing so it disabled a bunch of its own engines and blew the launchpad to smithereens, with the debris additionally damaging the site's fuel bunkers. The rocket then underwent rapid unplanned disassembly when it failed to correctly separate stages and exploded
For all the talk of the launch as a success because of all the "data" they retrieved. They didn't get any of the valuable stuff. Like yes, rocketry is complex and test flights often fail (look at all new rockets that failed in like the last year), but the important data for this flight was the engine performance, booster landing performance, and the starship reentry.
Because of the negligence w.r.t. the launchpad, the engine data is tainted and the mission never even reached the stage needed for the other portions.
I assumed with the lack of "I told u so" threads the launch somehow succeeded against all odds and that hexbear got owned so everyone stopped talking it
dam mfs a shocked-pikachu-face would've at least been a nice heads up lmao
You had to be here within 2-12 hours of the launch happening there were like 6 or 7 different threads all at once.
What probably happened for you is that because everyone was spread over different threads instead of one single thread the voting and discussion power bumping them in the algo was diluted so the threads dropped before you saw them.
Yeah I was asleep then I went to work, I was saving checking into hexbear as a special treat during lunch to see what happened, but when I did I didn't even see a single thread about the launch
So I was like "dam we got owned lmao" and then promptly forgot about it
Wait I thought the launch succeeded, now folks are saying it blew up?
The rocket successfully got off the ground. In doing so it disabled a bunch of its own engines and blew the launchpad to smithereens, with the debris additionally damaging the site's fuel bunkers. The rocket then underwent rapid unplanned disassembly when it failed to correctly separate stages and exploded
For all the talk of the launch as a success because of all the "data" they retrieved. They didn't get any of the valuable stuff. Like yes, rocketry is complex and test flights often fail (look at all new rockets that failed in like the last year), but the important data for this flight was the engine performance, booster landing performance, and the starship reentry.
Because of the negligence w.r.t. the launchpad, the engine data is tainted and the mission never even reached the stage needed for the other portions.
It reminds me of the amnesty given to Shiro Ishii of Unit 731 fame. The USA granted it to him in exchange for the "data" from his "research."
I presume the journals were like "welp we vivisected a live Chinese POW and they died."
Great job doing science, guys!
rocket & rocket Launchpad blew up ..
The American news media somehow wrote it up like a success.
:parenti-hands:
Genuinely Orwellian
well they didnt explode at the same time soo ...
well, if corporate media don't tell us small brains that all this is "good, actually", people would just assume something went wrong.
turns out when shit explodes violently, it's a big win for whatever it was you were doing.
this is going to revolutionize the way I approach my professional life.
I assumed with the lack of "I told u so" threads the launch somehow succeeded against all odds and that hexbear got owned so everyone stopped talking it
dam mfs a shocked-pikachu-face would've at least been a nice heads up lmao
You had to be here within 2-12 hours of the launch happening there were like 6 or 7 different threads all at once.
What probably happened for you is that because everyone was spread over different threads instead of one single thread the voting and discussion power bumping them in the algo was diluted so the threads dropped before you saw them.
Yeah I was asleep then I went to work, I was saving checking into hexbear as a special treat during lunch to see what happened, but when I did I didn't even see a single thread about the launch
So I was like "dam we got owned lmao" and then promptly forgot about it