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Moment Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in Florida (www.bbc.com)
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[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the glory of privatization! A public institution would never have created such a beautiful fireball and spread poisonous shit all over the area!

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know if this is sarcasm, but launch explosions did happen relatively infrequently in the US and USSR throughout the 50s-80s

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 hours ago

And both got shit done nack then. Meanwhile all private companies managed to do is send up spy satellites, penis rockets and blow up.