So I guess we're just going to forget about that whole deal of banning safety protocols and allowing hundreds of people to be killed or permanently injured while working at SpaceX, all because Musk is terrified of the color yellow? If anyone is in the flight path of this launch, you might want to go out of town for a bit.
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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I've never heard of this, but it tracks 100%. And wow I just looked it up and somehow it's actually worse than you made it sound. He's actually a lunatic.
Uh. Did you forget your pills?
Maybe you need to start taking some if this doesn't concern you?
Talking to Musk now?
Talking to everyone because that's important in a democracy.
It's a selective piece of information. It's like saying "you shit every day", which is most likely technically correct, but still implies something unnaturally bad. Accidents do happen at every company, after all, and what matters is the Incidents per Million Hours Worked.
Sure accidents happen, but banning safety protocols is a whole level of insanity unto itself. Did you see the part were he also had all the backup beepers disabled on heavy machinery because they frightened him? I mean what's next, is he going to start sending astronauts into space without space suits because the sound of the respirators is scary? Hey it's just unnecessary safety equipment, all that matters is Musk gets his name in the news.
Personally I expect such a high tech company in a rich country to have a high enough standard that people do not die there. I also expect accidents that lead to amputation to get reported as they happen.
SpaceX does not seem like a large enough company to write deaths off like that.
Excitement guaranteed
I want to see it at least get to hot staging to see however the heck that plays out
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The Federal Aviation Administration approved a commercial launch license Wednesday for SpaceX to fly its second full-scale Starship rocket as soon as Friday, seven months after the giant vehicle’s first test flight.
If SpaceX executes its flight plan perfectly, the Super Heavy booster will fire its 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines for more than two-and-a-half minutes, guiding the stainless steel rocket through the atmosphere over the Gulf of Mexico.
Then, the booster will jettison to attempt a controlled descent into the Gulf of Mexico, while the Starship upper stage, with six Raptor engines, will light to accelerate to nearly the velocity required to enter a stable orbit.
Starship will coast about three-quarters of the way around the world before plunging back into the atmosphere for a targeted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii.
Clouds of sand fell several miles from Starbase, but none of this material was hazardous, federal officials wrote in their updated environmental review published Wednesday, several hours before the FAA issued the launch license for the second Starship test flight.
A pair of hot-fire tests of the Super Heavy booster in August provided important data on the environmental impact of the deluge system, which flows up to 358,000 gallons of fresh water onto the launch pad through a channel built in a massive steel plate installed under the pedestal the rocket sits on before launch.
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