• hybridep
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    1 day ago

    They’re simultaneously testing hundreds of little to big changes to the vehicles with every launch. Stuff will go wrong along the way.

    If that results in their rockets exploding, perhaps they should not be allowed to do this? That’s not how science is performed.

    Exploding rockets are not exactly friendly to nature or people.

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      13 hours ago

      It has nothing to do with science, it’s Engineering.

      The upper stage exploding is of course not ideal, but it does so on a suborbital trajectory, meaning everything will fall back down to Earth, into the ocean. (these still being test-launches with certain risks is the whole reason they’re choosing not to go fully orbital yet)

      In terms of materials, it’s mostly just stainless steel, there is no pollution from it.

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      1 day ago

      That’s not how science is performed

      Starship is not a science project. No scientific breakthroughs are made or expected. It is an engineering project. And this is exactly how that is performed.

      Also, how many people crashed how many planes before the Wright brothers managed to achieve powered flight ?