people joking that the rocket launch was delayed yesterday because Elon saw an opportunity to do it on 420
― StanM, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 05:03 (one year ago) link
circling back on this
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzXI_ApY4dY
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link
Who gets the Musk Face?
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
circling back on this🐦[Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017🕸]🐦
― "The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
"username checks out"
― 龜, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
That's generally how the federal gov't works awards verbal contracts - they'll give you a thumbs-up which means "Go for it, you got this!" or a frowny headshake which means nope
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:28 (one year ago) link
username checks out
:D
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
xp the old system led to a lot of confusion, which is why most modern agencies now conduct contract acquisition via a voice vote, with everyone working on the same floor as the cube where the formal bid was emailed getting a say in the decision during an optional meeting held during the lunch hour on fridays
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 18 April 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
Starship: The Starship has cleared the tower! An amazing sight as the huge rocket climbs away atop 16 million lbs of thrust (!) generated by the Super Heavy first stage booster's 33 methane-burning Raptor engines— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023
Starship: Rocket appears to be spenning... and exploded 4 minutes and 2 seconds after launch— William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
lmao
pic.twitter.com/mK6AuDz91J— Ivan the K™ (@IvanTheK) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
Good day for everyone to lose their checkmarks
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
4 minutes and 2.0 seconds
― mh, Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
"rapid unscheduled disassembly" incredible new heights in corporate speak
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
Xpost It got pretty high
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: SpaceX successfully launched its massive Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. https://t.co/aGvDQnKXZA— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 20, 2023
President Kennedy successfully visited Dallas— Upton Earl Sinclair (@howiehandupme) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
(points, laughs)
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link
*very chris rock voice * ITS SPINNIN
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:08 (one year ago) link
I'm not a space guy, but the reporting on this seems extraordinarily deranged to me
NYT: "The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday."
"However, SpaceX has a history of learning from mistakes. The company’s mantra is essentially, “Fail fast, but learn faster.”Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly....SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.
Traditional aerospace companies have tried to anticipate and prevent as many failures as possible ahead of time. But that approach takes money and time and can lead to vehicles that are overdesigned. SpaceX instead is more like a Silicon Valley software company — starting with an imperfect product that can be improved quickly.
...
SpaceX, as one of the most valuable privately held companies, possesses a large financial cushion to absorb setbacks, unlike its early days when the first three launches of its original rocket, the small Falcon 1, failed to reach orbit. Mr. Musk scraped together just enough money and parts for a fourth launch attempt. Had it failed, SpaceX would have gone out of business.
It succeeded, and SpaceX has succeeded in almost all of its endeavors since then, even when it sometimes fails at first.
I know I should be cynical about this by now, but wtf
― rob, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
I did manage to get to the bathroom and I successfully defecated, but I didn't quite reach my most ambitious goal of taking down my trousers first.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:15 (one year ago) link
just a minor systems failure, but the method is spot on - nothing to see here!
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
isn't SpaceX mostly funded by the federal government?
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
man imagine if SpaceX was the Challenger and Elon was also in charge then
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
"successful launch, just some minor sky detritus"
tons of Musk-ites complaining about the lack of nuance in the reporting on the 'explosion', when just about every article I've read expressed what happened pretty accurately and that this was always known as an expected outcome.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
i was watching a live stream of this where the announcer went “there goes the future of humanity!”then 2 minutes later it exploded in the sky https://t.co/66nL3ZdID5— 🍄😮💨 (@CinemaMonsieur) April 20, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
i would simply design a rocket that was not expected to explode
announcer technically otm
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
lol. Musk is obv racist and transphobic and a piece of shit so I don't care to defend him but it's almost like this dude hasn't heard of "4/20" before
Musk always celebrates 4-20 with events, "Coincidentally" it's is also Hitler's Birthday.https://t.co/zzTab39w3J— Eric John Diesel (@EricJohnDiesel3) April 20, 2023
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
it's hilarious that the new blowing up is "a rapid unscheduled disassembly"
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:01 (one year ago) link
expressions that express gratified anticipation:
https://i.imgur.com/dYdAOAy.png
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:05 (one year ago) link
happy bluecheck liberation day you pained motherfucker
― mark s, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link
Eric John Diesel not an expert in the Sour Diesel.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:09 (one year ago) link
Dog has some thoughts:
i do not destroy my toys. they simply experience. a rapid unscheduled disassembly. this has nothing to do with me— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) April 20, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZ-FbCMIrUThe RUDs • (You’re) In a RUD (You gotta get out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it - out of it)
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
This is Major Lon to Ground Control/I'm here forevermore/and I'm tweeting in my stupid normal way/and my bullshit's very typical toDAYYAYYAAY
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
kinda shocked to learn that Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly is actually a preexisting term that somehow never went full-on viral. if it had been coined by some establishment grey man in the 60s, it'd be on the level of "we had to destroy this town in order to save it."
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
THE ROCKET LAUNCH WAS A SUCCESSPLEASE KINDLY IGNORE THE MESSAMANDA
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Like "terminate with extreme prejudice." (Which I have learned actually means to "use tons of careful judgment"). xp
― Laurie Anderson’s Singing Bowl Migraine Orchestra (Hunt3r), Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
https://external-preview.redd.it/oiZh5RNj8VGqwtcSnYDq0RKwNmTOS77ESs5-w0VMzEg.jpg?auto=webp&s=3be504b8a8fd1a0b3465e13b6ba8d0f143c8024d
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
Why give Musk even a whiff of the benefit of any doubt at this point though. Why *is* he so into 4/20 lolz?
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:20 (one year ago) link
We're getting to orbit today 🚀 pic.twitter.com/xJ9v90QqK6— 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰 (@Grimezsz) April 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
oh shit was grimes on the rocket?
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Her final art performance.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 20 April 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, April 20, 2023
I heard it long ago (pre-SpaceX), and figured there was some humor behind it (even tech peeps have senses of humor).
― nickn, Thursday, 20 April 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/10022/who-coined-the-phrase-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly
hah
he offers that too https://t.co/mkKy1HYHTF— actioncookbook (@actioncookbook) April 20, 2023
― frogbs, Thursday, 20 April 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
Elon press conference post rocket blowup pic.twitter.com/c223i7VTxS— Brendan James (@deep_beige) April 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
bro I can't fucking imagine what I'd do if I was fighting for my life trying to squash a news story about me and my dad went to the press like "not only is it completely true, make sure you write up the part where my grown son was crying about his fancy bike" https://t.co/BpCS7H1o5z— Takes Of Vesperia (@coolranchzaku) April 20, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:20 (one year ago) link
A new Logan Roy has entered the arena.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link