Blown Away

KA

wait for it......

wait for it.....

wait for it.....

BOOM!

I feel for the folks at SpaceX. Not so much for their owner. 

Deep down I know these guys are engineers just trying to do their jobs. And I know it's not brain surgery.  But it is hard to feel bad for failure when your boss is a nazi douchebag. 

I'm just saying, Wernher von Braun was a nazi too, but hell, he got things off the ground. 

The difference is von Braun, when not being ok with killing Jews, was about the science, not the showmanship. 

Honesty though, I'm still stumped. 

There is more technology in any of our pockets than was on any of the Space Shuttles. That is just a fact. How is it possible that four decades later we are farther behind at how to make rockets that work?

It's like the prequels to Star Wars. They're earlier and there was more technology then when you get to epiode IV. It is just backwards. 

Oh, for context, SpaceX's Starship spacecraft blew to smithereens on its tenth test flight. 

"Flight" might be a bit grandiose here. It never left the launchpad. One last May and March when Ka-Blooey too, but at least got off the ground for a little while. 

I'd say Mars looks out of reach. The moon too - though we've "been there". {wink wink}. These guys can't even get out of Brownsville, TX. 

Elon wants to go to Mars. No one wants him there more than I. I say, put him on a test flight and let's see what happens. 

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