Elon’s latest grain silo went full Kerbal, spinning and all.

Stage Separation Failure supposedly, but frankly it was looking bad long before that.

I’m sure the debris damage will buff out.

66 points

Whoever called “delaying it an extra day because lmao weed number” come to the courtesy desk for your prize

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Fucking Brezhnev-era ass launch scheduling.

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What was launch scheduling like in the Brezhnev era?

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mondays and thursdays were reserved for eyebrow grooming and mainetnance

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Your rocket launch is inflexibly scheduled a year in advance for May Day/October/Lenins death/Marx’s Birth/Brezhnev’s ninth hero of the soviet union award ceremony. Good Luck, cosmonaut.

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It’s not “weed day” it’s Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Just a little present to Musk and Trump’s hero.

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Things can be two things and he’s probably thrilled about the plausible deniability

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So much Elon cope in the comments lmao :data-laughing:

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Maybe just maybe if I defend Elon on this one he’ll pick me to inherit his wealth!

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32 points

Charlie and the Self-Immolating Glass Elevator

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57 points

Looking into it

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33 points

interesting

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53 points

:my-hero: Concerning

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People need to reply to all his tweets with just this picture

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The news is spinning this as a huge step. You know we had a space SHUTTLE, right?

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10 points

In fairness those also had an explosion problem.

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The NRO, on the other hand, is very interested. And this will probably start up the dumb “rods from god” discourse.

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Soviets had automated more advanced shuttles, and they were abondoned after the fall. I’m also suprised Putin didn’t revive the program.

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It’s much better than the Space Shuttle, at least on paper. The space shuttle as finally conceived was a horrible kludge of what was initially a simple, small space truck.

If/when Starship actually flies, it’d be the first step forward in super-heavy lift rocketry since the SaturnV/N1 was cancelled. Excepting the stand-alone Energia that never flew.

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