Haha fuck you, jeff bozo.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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Guess will see a 5% increase on Amazon prices
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.
Shame he wasn't on it
So this is how billionaires do fireworks?
I wish the video was long enough to hear the sound of my prime membership going up in price
More layoffs needed to growl fuel this machine
Amazon workers pee in bottles to afford this...
Can't they save that for when he's on board.
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.
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."
They forgot to take the hand-brake off
They forgot to tap the side of the rocket to settle the fizz before opening it.
New AWS us-southeast data center just went online.
Let's put him on the next flight and invite also musk!
If we killed all billionaires now, only more would rise in their place. We need to fix the system that bred these people.
If we killed all billionaires now, only more would rise in their place.
So you're saying if we keep killing bilionaires, eventually everyone will be a billionaire?
In our minds and hearts, for sure. Can't speak to the monetary aspect.
Why not both?
I like the way you think
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Hell yeah! Billionaires losing money. Hope noone lost their lives in that assholes quest to rape anything untouched by greed
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
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
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).
So its not the same people that do everything but why does this not encourage being cheapstakes at any of these steps? Im glad there's oversight but I can't grasp how it works just yet
Well there’s always going to be penny pinching and greed, but because each team‘s job is singular and siloed, their success or failure is based on their only job. So there is a separation of pride. The launch team’s only job is to launch the rocket, they have no vested interest in the mission or how well it was built. So a cost saving move that would help the mission but hinder launching the rocket isn’t one that would be made by the launch team.
That being said, nothing says that this won’t change as soon as more privatization happens in this sector.
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First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.
I don't understand how they're allowed to pollute like this.
While it's not as optimal as RP1 (aerospace kerosene) or Methane - we should be forcing all aerospace to be using Hydrogen. It has a higher ISP anyway.
I don’t understand how they’re allowed to pollute like this.
Compared to your average coal power plant it's CO2 imprint is tiny.
They're not. They'll be fined several thousands of dollars. Bezos will cry as he writes such an enormous check.
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.
It was an unplanned disassembly lol
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It's not good.
Oh no! Anyway...
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