I wish the video was long enough to hear the sound of my prime membership going up in price
New AWS us-southeast data center just went online.
I don’t understand how they’re allowed to pollute like this.
I don’t give a shit what purpose the rocket was supposed to have. It’s not worth it.
They’re not. They’ll be fined several thousands of dollars. Bezos will cry as he writes such an enormous check.
They forgot to take the hand-brake off
They forgot to tap the side of the rocket to settle the fizz before opening it.
It was an unplanned disassembly lol
First rule of rocketry, always assume it will explode.
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.”
Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.
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.
Why not both?
I like the way you think
When i see bezos and musk, specifically those two fucks, I don’t see any problem in them flying to apace on Spaceship or New Glenn.
Just imagine burning bezos flying through the air in a livestream. I would pay to watch that!
You mean like the all-powerful French aristocracy?
And look where we are again.
Poor tree
Hell yeah! Billionaires losing money. Hope noone lost their lives in that assholes quest to rape anything untouched by greed
isn’t a large part of it funded by taxpayer money?
It looks like about 1/3 of Blue Origin’s total funds comes from government contacts. Now keep in mind, that means Blue Origin is providing a service in exchange for that money, it’s not just handed to them.
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).
The people sit in the Dragon on top of the the falcon 9 rocket as it fuels. “load and go”
Yes, and they have a plan for what happens if the rocket explodes. It wouldn’t be completely safe against an explosion this intense, but the dragon capsule (like all manned vehicles, aside from the very notable exception of the space shuttle) can eject itself from the rocket to protect the crew from explosions
Fun fact: the Shuttle was intended to have ejection capabilities, they were removed by the request of the Department of Defense. They provided extra funding for the Shuttle on the stipulation that it reach very specific orbits including a polar orbit that was only achievable by an extreme weight reduction. In fact later Shuttles also had to be modified to even make it to the ISS with a valuable amount of cargo. Columbia, the first Shuttle to fly to space, was always too heavy to make it to the ISS. The reason this happened is the president at the time, Jimmy Carter if I remember correctly, made some interesting and specific threats about their own capabilities to the Russians. These modifications were to make good on those threats.
Shame, was hoping Bozos had frontside seats.
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Was he onboard? no? oh well… that’s a shame, i mean glad he’s ok!
