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Kudos to SpaceX for figuring out that it's more efficient to simply let Starship explode on the pad rather than having to actually launch it first

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BREAKING: SpaceX Starship explodes during static fire test

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Next they'll figure that they can just take an old grain silo, put fins on it and paint a SpaceX logo on the side, then blow it up spectacularly and keep receiving those sweet, sweet government funds. "Uh, temporary failure, we'll get it right next time, promise." Ka-ching!

Good luck doing that when everything is run to the specifications of an arrogant idiot whose intelligence has long been stunted by an ego so bloated that it wrenches Starlink satellites out of their orbits every time said idiot smirks.

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Total boondoggle. Total monopoly on space tax $$$. NASA sent many moon flights 1969 to 1972. He can't get into orbit. NASA sent 135 shuttles to space 1981 to 2011, but people are dazzled coz he "rescued" guys at the ISS. He gets mad & says he will decommission the falcon. Too much power & money

It's more environmentally friendly to explode your rocket at ground level than in the upper atmosphere, so this must be a new green policy from SpaceX.

Nice try. But when the starship re-enters the atmosphere, it is almost empty of propellant and the stainless steel body comes down without burning up. Starship can use biomethane. They should move towards that ... not just for PR reasons.

They use methane as the fuel. It is the cleanest rocket fuel. ULA/SLS use solid fuels (to help hydrogen main engines) and they are the worst. But SpaceX can/could/should start using biomethane.

Actually, the EPA was busting Musk's succulent tuchas about how the blasts-off were damaging the habitat of a local indigenous land crab, so this new wave of pre-take off explosions is his cruel way of having a clambake.