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Can't they save that for when he's on board.
This was a test run not too far from the real launch. This was not one of those launches where they expected a massive explosion from testing.
Does anyone expect an unplanned rapid disassembly?
You pay people more and keep them working at their best by providing them with robuat benefits, time off, and job/financial security so they can account for, plan, and mitigate shit like this.
But noooo, layoffs, and "don't tax me more, 40% of fed tax is payed by 1% of earners, which I'm not cause my income is 80K suckers! Work fast, break things, die faster slaves."
Does anyone expect an unplanned rapid disassembly?
Jokes aside, there are test launches where new boosters are tested and they do expect catastrophic failures because they are still in the test phase. But this was not one of those tests.
Amazon workers pee in bottles to afford this...
Haha fuck you, jeff bozo.
Let's put him on the next flight and invite also musk!
If we killed all billionaires now, only more would rise in their place. We need to fix the system that bred these people.
Why not both?
I like the way you think
If we killed all billionaires now, only more would rise in their place.
So you're saying if we keep killing bilionaires, eventually everyone will be a billionaire?
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You mean like the all-powerful French aristocracy?
And look where we are again.
When i see bezos and musk, specifically those two fucks, I don't see any problem in them flying to apace on Spaceship or New Glenn.
Just imagine burning bezos flying through the air in a livestream. I would pay to watch that!
I wish the video was long enough to hear the sound of my prime membership going up in price
World's most expensive fireworks.
Hell yeah! Billionaires losing money. Hope noone lost their lives in that assholes quest to rape anything untouched by greed
Nobody was hurt. As a general rule nobody fuels a rocket without planning as if it's going to explode in exactly this fashion. The pad didn't survive, but nobody was anywhere near this thing when it blew up
Well, there's "as a general rule" and then there's "A billionaire wanted to save a negligible amount of money", I personally assume the latter when talking about these parasites
Luckily in this case, the people who build the rocket aren’t allowed to launch them for this very reason. Even NASA has a completely different team of people who launch rockets (in Florida) than who build them (Alabama, Mississippi, and others) or run the mission (Houston).
The actual launch range is run by the Space Force and they have the final say on when and where you can launch and where you can’t be during launch (officially called an exclusion zone).
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Boo-Yah for the great American Private Sector! All we have to to is get government to the size where we can drown it, and Business will take care of everything and do it more efficiently for less money, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
And yes, that was snark.
They forgot to take the hand-brake off
They forgot to tap the side of the rocket to settle the fizz before opening it.
Guess will see a 5% increase on Amazon prices
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Shame he wasn't on it
First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.
New AWS us-southeast data center just went online.
More layoffs needed to growl fuel this machine
So this is how billionaires do fireworks?
I don't understand how they're allowed to pollute like this.
I don't give a shit what purpose the rocket was supposed to have. It's not worth it.
They're not. They'll be fined several thousands of dollars. Bezos will cry as he writes such an enormous check.
While I agree the industry is under-regulated, spaceflight has been a massive benefit for humanity. Earth would not be able to grow half the food it does now. Global communication and logistics would be significantly more unreliable and expensive. Even down to simple things like cellphones would not work without GPS.
Spaceflight is not the problem. Unregulated bilionaires and corporations are.
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I don’t understand how they’re allowed to pollute like this.
Compared to your average coal power plant it's CO2 imprint is tiny.
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It was an unplanned disassembly lol
Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It's not good.
Oh no! Anyway...
Poor tree
Was he onboard? no? oh well... that's a shame, i mean glad he's ok!
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