Posted on 04/20/2023 5:32:06 AM PDT by know.your.why
Heeere we goooo. Fingers toes and eyes crossed for a successful test flight of the 33-Raptor engine Superheavy booster and Starship first time into space. Both vehicles are planned to splash down...the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship off of Hawaii.
The good 10 seconds - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1649052609590992901
The not so good 10 seconds - https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1649047627634466819
This forum would be a lot better if it had an ignore feature for fools like you, or if you just left or died or something.
Ignore me, then, douchebag.
And hoping for people to die on this forum, especially by f***ing noobie trash, is generally frowned on in here.
Woulda been nice....
Except Elon was 6 when Von Braun died in 1977.
Some of us remember losing a couple Vanguard launches before we joined the Soviet Union in orbital flight.
This is not directed at you, since I don’t answer to 18-day veterans of Free Republic. This is intended for the rest of the thread participants, many of who I know and respect.
I knew this launch would fail. Even Musk predicted so. What I didn’t expect was the large number of successes. Clearing the launch pad with the world’s most powerful rocket, is amazing. The fact that the launch pad held together under these stresses was spectacular. I am stunned and impressed that they even had a successful first stage separation. Well done, SpaceX team!
Since I knew in advance that this wouldn’t be an important thread — Starship wasn’t going to go the distance, not a chance — I decided, as I often do, to be playful.
Tersely hemorrhoidal, tightly wound n00bs like ‘LedgerFreedom’, who actually wished for my death, can suck it. In fact, I shall respond in kind to him/her. LedgerFreedom, I hope you contract a particularly painful case of pancreatic cancer, and squirm in agony for months, screaming and wishing for the sweet release of death.
My pancreas exploded. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, not even him.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
Congrats @SpaceX team on an exciting test launch of Starship!
Learned a lot for next test launch in a few months.
10:00 AM · Apr 20, 2023
I agree with your comments about this test. It did achieve several successes. A complete test to the end was not really expected. But did the stage separation occur? I didn't see it happen. And this may have been the proximate cause of the termination.
For the record, I admire Musk and SpaceX greatly. They are one of the few bright spots in our otherwise failing civilization.
What you call playful is actually brutally childish obnoxious garbage. Whatever you say old man, but you made this thread all about you which was your goal anyway.
Bite me, douchebag.
And please hurry up and get that painful pancreatic cancer. Do let us know your experiences; I want to wallow in your pain.
Wow! Sorry to hear that bro! How the heck did you make it out alive from THAT???
I had heard reports that it was successful. They, or I, may be mistaken.
The Starship never separated from the booster Laz.
it was amazing though watching the whole structure hold up from all of those g’s and not disintegrate..
Okay. I was wrong.
This was a very impressive first attempt, nonetheless.
Elon Musk will be thought of in the same manner as Edison, Tesla, the Wright Brothers, Einstein, Newton, and so on. He is one of the most impressive men of our age.
Most Freepers have given up on the United States, so your second sentence makes sense.
Morphine. Lots of morphine.
“Apollo 23”
I was on my way out the door.
https://for-all-mankind.fandom.com/wiki/Apollo_23
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME????
New low for you, dude.
Yes. It did clear the launch pad, but the Starship didn’t separate from the booster when it was supposed to, and something blew up. There were fragments falling and a multi-lobed cloud of smoke. I hope they got a great deal of good telemetry data back from it, and and figure out and fix whatever went wrong. I doubt it was really a $3 billion loss, though, as I’ve seen reported. As they say, “Back to the drawing board!
SpaceX tests to failure. Falcon had many “failures” until it was successful.
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For stuff that’s going to be human rated and flying out of the atmosphere, that’s the only way to go! I’m sad it didn’t do better, but happy it did as well as it did.
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