I’m going to be the “conspiracy theorist’ here. That’s two Starships that they lost right about the same time in the flight.
Given what the Liberals and Democrats have been saying and implying about Elon and everything he does, I am beginning to wonder if, and I hate to say this, that there is a mole or something over at Starbase in Texas, and that SABOTAGE may be involed.
You’d have to be pretty dumb to think being a saboteur involved in a Musk corporation, and not think you’d get caught. Don’t mess with the DOGEmaster
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Given what the Liberals and Democrats have been saying and implying about Elon and everything he does, I am beginning to wonder if, and I hate to say this, that there is a mole or something over at Starbase in Texas, and that SABOTAGE may be involed.
Except they were crashing well before Elon’s apparent political flip.
>>SABOTAGE may be involed.
There is telemetry involved on everything. If something is being sabotaged, it’d be quickly identified and the saboteur will be caught and spend the rest of his days broke and in a small locked room to which he won’t have a key.
“...and that SABOTAGE may be involed.”
My first thought as well.
If sabotage were involved, the thing to sabotage would be the catching of Super Heavy Booster. That thing losing an engine at the last minute would take out the Texas launch facility.
Both lost Starships suffered the same malfunction. Both Starships were the first of the Block II ships: a complete redesign from the successful Block I ships.
Sabotage has nothing to do with it - failure is expected. Success just paves the way for additions which in them selves can fail. Its failure to success or test to failure program. Nothing is expected to work the first time or the second.
Focus instead on the 3rd successful booster catch.