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Why did you feel the need to post this comment?


>Why did you feel the need to post this comment?

Maybe parent feels like rocket science is a field that should have few launch failures?

I can't give you a quantitative answer since I'm usually focused on new research rather than what company/nation did said research... but their stuff does seem to blow up on the launchpad more often than NASA's :-)


NASA does not produce any launch vehicles. It produces payloads and buys launch services from others.

Unless you count test artifacts, an actual catastrophic failure of a rocket on a launchpad (or even in flight) has been rare in the last 10 years.


Pop quiz, how many rockets has SpaceX launched in the last 5 years? How many have blown up the launchpad?


Trivia question. When did NASA last launch a rocket not built by a commercial entity


Why post anything online?

Im getting the sense that you are here to defend Space X and Elon Musk on the battlefield of internet forums.


I certainly am not. The only positive thing I have to say about those two is that SpaceX has cool rocketry tech.

>Why post anything online?

Typically people post things on HN for different reasons than they do on reddit or bsky, but your post seems like a much better fit for reddit or bsky. These types of factually nonsensical ideological signaling posts are popular on those websites, but are generally considered to be in poor form on this website.


>factually nonsensical ideological signaling posts

Oh you mean like the endless spam about how Macs are the best laptops and computers in the world, being able to run large models at dogshit low tok/sec for the price of twice what would it take to build an equivalent dual 3090 desktop that will be much faster?

Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with calling out shit companies ran by shit people, that present a real danger to the world.


>Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with calling out shit companies ran by shit people, that present a real danger to the world.

But you didn't call anybody out.


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> Because he suffers from MDS and as such can not but complain endlessly about anything which Musk has started. It is an unfortunate affliction for which the only cure seems to be extraction from whatever environment the sufferer inhabits and removal to another environment where there are no other sufferers, then slowly acclimatising to this new environment until the sufferer is again able to consider the person causing the derangement objectively.

Pot, meet kettle. It sounds like both of you should go outside and touch some grass.


Im not saying Dragon will explode. Im just saying that its ironic the person I was replying to used the word "supposed" like it may malfunction.

As for MDS/TDS, be careful about accusing other people of those. Its not really about politics, more about bring your character into question of supporting pedophiles.


> Im just saying that its ironic the person I was replying to used the word "supposed" like it may malfunction.

I think you've simply misunderstood what "ironic" means.




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