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[–] 119 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Can't they save that for when he's on board.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    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."

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  • [–] 88 points 2 months ago

    Amazon workers pee in bottles to afford this...

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  • [–] 57 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Let's put him on the next flight and invite also musk!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    If we killed all billionaires now, only more would rise in their place. We need to fix the system that bred these people.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    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!

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Hell yeah! Billionaires losing money. Hope noone lost their lives in that assholes quest to rape anything untouched by greed

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago

    I wish the video was long enough to hear the sound of my prime membership going up in price

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    [–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They forgot to take the hand-brake off

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago

    Rapid unscheduled disassembly.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    Haha fuck you, jeff bozo.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    It was an unplanned disassembly lol

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    New AWS us-southeast data center just went online.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    More layoffs needed to growl fuel this machine

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Guess will see a 5% increase on Amazon prices

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They're not. They'll be fined several thousands of dollars. Bezos will cry as he writes such an enormous check.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    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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    [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It's not good.

    https://youtu.be/aaR6yEE-Myo

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Shame he wasn't on it

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    So this is how billionaires do fireworks?

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    World's most expensive fireworks.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Was he onboard? no? oh well... that's a shame, i mean glad he's ok!

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