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A comment on SpaceX’s Starship caused ‘catastrophic’ damage on the ground.

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Re:SpaceX’s Starship caused ‘catastrophic’ damage on the ground by penjelly on Thursday April 27, 2023 @07:21PM (#35735765)
no. its perfectly reasonable to criticize this instance. They saw it coming and ignored it, other people saw it and called it out too.

"pure unadulterated success" is just willful ignorance, there is a world where the launch goes well AND the surrounding area and equipment doesnt get wrecked

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Re:SpaceX’s Starship caused ‘catastrophic’ damage on the ground by wkat4242 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @08:43PM (#35736284)
One of those that called it out before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35590279
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Re:SpaceX’s Starship caused ‘catastrophic’ damage on the ground by Kapura on Friday April 28, 2023 @11:43AM (#35742714)
Wow, this is incredible. The bit near the end that there was no deluge/flame trench turned out to be spot on.
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Re:SpaceX’s Starship caused ‘catastrophic’ damage on the ground by kmbfjr on Friday April 28, 2023 @06:57AM (#35739712)
A success until someone dies?

They broke their rocket with this plan, it is not unreasonable to assume they could have damaged it in other ways to turn a mostly controlled situation into one that sends a (very) low altitude ballistic missile into a populated area.

They need their permits pulled until they can act responsibly.

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