So Elon Musk launched the worlds biggest firework today - ooops

@Repete All it takes is for one crewed mission to go bad.

This is true but that’s why test flights are done.
Same with his space ships dragon whatever that goes to the space station regularly now taking astronauts to and from it.@LordShadowfire

@Roundandroundwego 3’,12” hmm. sounds like 4 feet to me

@MrBrownstone Biden wants all rockets to be electric by 2032.🤣

@MrBrownstone No. Those would be in space.

@MissTaken you can say failure or not.


It's just a test to improve.

@MissTaken When Mr Edison was working on the light bulb trying to figure out a filament, he said He now knows 92 items that won't work not 92 failures. Good thinking?

@MissTaken every failure is just a learning experience. That’s the truth. I am no musk fan either.

@ron122 I know you don't get mad at idiots. That's why you get so mad at me.

@LordShadowfire And that went right over your head.🤣

@BoredDarkLord My take, although I could be totally wrong, is that they discussed in advance how to behave in the event of any kind of failure. And that means any failure would be spun as a success. The reactions just struck me as being too immediate. Felt contrived.

@Wiseacre do it right the tenth time.

I think it belonged to somebody recording the event live they was talking about it on the live stream that I was watching . I guess they had several cameras on it or in it. Nobody was in the van just cameras .@Tastyfrzz

@Tastyfrzz ABC had a view of the rear and said sthg like 7 of the "boosters"--I believe that's what was reported--did not fire, showing several unbalanced, unlighted places around the ring.

Unbalanced boosters = unbalanced thrust = torque (couple)

Higher is likely more dangerous. It's likely the lack of ignition of these boosters.

I am not familiar with this design, but both the terminology and video suggest that solid fuel rockets are being used. Since they (solid fuel rockets) don't have the equivalent ability of, say, a liquid fuel rocket to have an initial low-flow proof of ignition as part of the design, this seems to be the failure of something easily testable within a non-launch context (at much less cost in terms money, time, and negative publicity); this should have been sorted out long before the launch test.

@SomeMichGuy nope. They use liquid fuel. Methane and oxygen.

@Tastyfrzz Ok, then that's even MORE perplexing (but it agrees with what the burn looked like).

It's also more concerning that ignition could fail in so many chambers.

Again...easily testable in a NON-launch configuration.

@JohnOinger South African mines make for a good inheritance, but my dad was just a postman.

@Tracos You have to learn from failure sometimes. So you know what does work properly

@Ferric67 A tough week for him is a better week than you'll ever have.

@CactusJackManson let's keep it that way 👍

@SW-User Now you're thinking like Elon!😆