WATCH: Shocking Moment When SpaceX’s Second Starship Flight Test Results In Explosion

The second test flight for SpaceX’s large, two-stage Starship rocket resulted in an explosion Saturday, though the flight went further than the first test run SpaceX held in April-when the spacecraft was lost just a few minutes after liftoff.
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[@madmax7944]

Who else thought it looked like a big water splash

[@StCruce]

The waters above

[@christimueller4412]

Exactly!!

[@cocodalish]

It looks that way because it is under pressure and everything just escapes outwards.

[@RM-di6tb]

Firmament 🐑

[@JordanWallace-nb4id]

Says the one who believes everything the media tells them and the government. Reprobate minds

[@AtchafalayaBoysOutdoors]

In other words technically we can’t leave earth

[@Ilovemydogssssssss]

not through the skies

[@RocketPal]

What?

[@robertlucey6302]

Elons literally sent multiple rockets to space 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AtchafalayaBoysOutdoors]

@@robertlucey6302 show me proof

[@R-Righteous]

@@robertlucey6302 yeah, surely there should be some video evidence so far all the videos i've seen have cuts and edits at pivotal moments

[@vladimirgoncharenko7545]

From building Tower of Babel to launching rockets…people never learn.

[@DemonCici]

Actually people are learning

[@kevinthomas9526]

Yeah that you can’t beat the Creator and He says No!

[@ordinarypete]

@@DemonCicino, they aren’t.

[@jaymewithhawaii]

They’re hopefully learning we can’t leave and maybe we should tell people the truth for once 😂

[@shannonhalorday6877]

Amen, don't forget about that firmament lol. God Bless

[@whattheshep6814]

Nobody can escape the firmament.

[@kedrednael]

Except all the satellites, including the ISS, which you can see at night with your own eyes.

[@mimz1555]

@@kedrednael ALL BENEATH THE DOME!

[@womanofgod568]

What's with that profile image?

[@jonnyweber3311]

😅😅😅

[@arielmalsireal5453]

Also NO ONE LEAVES EARTH

[@StCruce]

Firmament is pretty when you smash things into it.

[@borderlandsinfinityworld5883]

Exactement !

[@BurtonRider90210]

only the back half hit and the other half kept going? makes sense

[@TrillStylesz]

@@BurtonRider90210you really think that … schedule your next eye appointment or better yet get your head checked. You have a hard time comprehending the truth.

[@priscilamiranda9810]

Ótima resposta ​@@TrillStylesz

[@priscilamiranda9810]

Deus fez o firmamento e tudo q nele à

[@aldohernandez3936]

The firmament ACCESS DENIED 🚫 !!!😂

[@mouademalki680]

​@ElMAPHANGA phanga you are not a s Scientist

[@sevanchiuclasicel]

​@ElMAPHANGAyou should stop acting like one

[@sevanchiuclasicel]

@ElMAPHANGA you do since you are contradict physics and simple matter. What do you see in the sky when the rocket explodes? And if you talk so much about physics why dont you explain what happened in your smart ass terms?

[@sevanchiuclasicel]

@ElMAPHANGA then why dont you explain in physics what happened?

[@sevanchiuclasicel]

@ElMAPHANGA from the start

[@Reanimator7336]

Hit the Firmament. The Waters Above.

[@mimz1555]

YES! \o/

[@Matixpp]

Intentan salir del domo, pero no pueden 😂

[@volanterodas]

yes brother the waters above

[@k.m.8299]

Exactly right.

[@justanormaldilo.249]

Again with this?

[@debbiehellionandtheapocaly845]

Elon trying to break through the freaking dome 😂😂😂😂😂 Thanks for showing me that

[@debbiehellionandtheapocaly845]

Just trying to break into heaven and apparently. According to the Bible, they'll break into heaven. But they won't have the proper clothes on and they'll be kicked out so hilarious😂😂😂😂

[@JordanWallace-nb4id]

They won't make it

[@JordanWallace-nb4id]

They won't make it

[@bellydancerabiar7809]

@@debbiehellionandtheapocaly845 Amen 😂

[@MrKingjason2]

Firmament.

[@vastan21]

It seems to hit something "hard"! No one can break the firmament.

[@ericb9609]

it just blew up by itself... no need to resort to religious giberish

[@Ilovemydogssssssss]

you must have graduated from a special ed class.@@ericb9609

[@markola]

@@ericb9609that’s what everyone will say when they see any evidence.

[@G.Freeman92]

@@ericb9609it’s not religious. It’s reality. Look up the go-fast rocket.

[@RocketPal]

@@G.Freeman92 BOT

[@Guilty-xu6gs]

You people don't get it do you... There is a firmament above, no one has ever left earth nor will they ...

[@anton972yehuda]

Agree

[@jonathanchampagne7683]

Probably. I've never been up there.

[@MusicalBlam]

this the lost knowledge we need ong

[@mrspirus5735]

They have many times. Countless satellites and rovers, probes that have gone to other planets. Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini, Juno, New Horizons. You are honestly brainwashed by an ancient book of fairytales.

[@justanormaldilo.249]

Explain satellites then, genius.

[@totalityadventures3538]

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. -Genesis 1:6-7

[@dorisclarke6549]

And this would make since how ?

[@liamparkos7698]

the bible is false then

[@Itsflat5097]

Werner Von Braun "On my headstone, only put my name, the dates of my life, and oh ya, Psalms 19:1, that is all." 😂

[@Itsflat5097]

Psalm 19:1 - “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

[@carson5110]

@@Itsflat5097 The firmament is our atmosphere💀

[@Maxlly]

THE FIRMAMENT, THAT WAS A SPLASH

[@RocketPal]

Unfunny joke...

[@shanelewis3975]

@@RocketPalPraise Jesus Christ, he will soon return and the truth will be revealed. This is no coincidence brother.

[@liamparkos7698]

@@shanelewis3975god doesnt exist

[@sategllib2191]

​@liamparkos7698 Sure does. You think we just turned into conscience beings after growing legs being fish. Lol

[@shanelewis3975]

@@sategllib2191 frrr bro. Scientism is a religion. they think the Earth is 13.5 billion years old and we evolved from monkeys😭😭

[@chuckschickbaldtacos]

Yep definitely never went to the moon

[@kedrednael]

New rocket design new problems. This is designed to be entirely re-usable, landing back on earth.

[@chrisjamesjr]

Where did the rocket go

[@victoraleman8477]

The moon is in the earths atmosphere

[@felinaoreite]

🍋 .

[@taylorallen4359]

@@victoraleman8477Still never went to it 😂

[@73kristilee]

So it hit the firmament in other words, visibly sending ripples through the firmament into the waters above

[@Ethan_Roberts]

There is no firmament

[@R-Righteous]

@@Ethan_Roberts go on fella show him your spacex video you told me about where you can see the rocket launch from earth and go into space, I want to see it too..... If you do that you can shut alot of these religious people up.

[@Ethan_Roberts]

​@@R-Righteous footage of Starlink 4-14 last year as an example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZezfZZqpb96pas kzbin.info/www/bejne/sILcn4SapZmspcU And my own video after it reached orbit and went over the UK: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sInJlZiqq9GDqrs

[@rikormsby943]

agree ;)

[@lindimashinini7237]

@@Ethan_Roberts yes... don't believe your lying eyes, when you see a rocket ship splash... I mean "explode" against some... thinly veiled piece of atmosphere...

[@lancertreepuffer]

Totally seen the waters above right there

[@josephsemedofernandes4504]

Nothing passes! God is great!

[@carson5110]

Have you ever made a phone call? or watched TV?

[@marksimons9359]

​@@carson5110have you ever seen the UN logo or earth map?why is Antarctica not on it?wake up Neo!

[@carson5110]

@@marksimons9359 *insert Kamala Harris cackle* Ignorance truly is a blissful life isn’t it?

[@rizzwan-42069]

@@marksimons9359 obviously they're just putting it there oopsie poopsie. if they didn't want you to know they would have not f put that part up

[@rogervoke5179]

that totally hit the firmament

[@Mx6xt_]

Ether realm

[@henrysteel4049]

TOTALLY!!

[@DeusVultExitium]

…really?

[@heathd9034]

Stop doing shrooms.

[@anton972yehuda]

@@heathd9034how inteligent…., weak .

[@mariomunoz6883]

crashes with the dome. that's too much evidence right there. water splash

[@carson5110]

But the upper stage kept going? yeah makes sense, use an OZ of logic bud.

[@treek10k]

​@@carson5110the upper stage looked like it was falling down. Stop being a sheep bud.

[@carson5110]

@@treek10k brother I’ve launched model rockets with action cams on them MYSELF, I’ve seen it FOR MYSELF. The firmament is our atmosphere, that is all.

[@itsover6082]

@@carson5110there’s literally a thick sapphire glass above you! That is how The creator made it, and it is perfect, makes perfect sense as to why the beast of revelation rises from the sea, and all the ufo footage you saw, they were coming from the sea. So many things happening in the oceans, pay attention, these are the last days

[@carson5110]

@@itsover6082 IVE SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES😭😭 The firmament isn’t a glass dome it’s our atmosphere, The firmament USED to be a structure until the flood and that’s where the water came from. Now it is our atmosphere because something had to replace it for our protection

[@leeg75]

Looks like it splashed through the fermament😂 nice show elon

[@TrillStylesz]

@ElMAPHANGAwhen did you land on the moon ?

[@felinaoreite]

🍋

[@cecepgorbachev_]

Tesla said "earth is a realm, it is not a planet" No one learn... 😭

[@GiancarloDiamond]

Yeah he said that indeed. The humans had the brain more clear amd intelligent than people todays. He had thousands of patents. He was a genius. Who think nasa and other arguing peeps think we are stupid ? How about the sea captains of the ancient were they stupid also when they ficked the entire sea of the world? They made a different map to what we have today.

[@elijones4052]

The firmament can’t b broken

[@harlemworld4169]

It broke

[@harlemworld4169]

And sealed

[@rwooshme1118]

​@@harlemworld4169still not happen tho

[@vince5973]

Mfs think there is water in the sky. I think we’ve started to go backward

[@tubecated_development]

@@vince5973 Internet dun gon and BROKE everfin

[@JillianSmall_ChildofGod]

Turned my phone upside down. It's like looking at something heavy smashing into the ocean. God is amazing.

[@lowlightevangelist9431]

The explosion looked like a nebula.

[@dcorman]

Or a Supernova

[@lonespanker2823]

im glad someone else noticed

[@josevillagomez2567]

The firmament

[@meth8848]

The waters Above

[@lowlightevangelist9431]

@@JF32304 you judged wrong

[@netdgfazo3492]

That dang firmament man 🤧

[@Ilovemydogssssssss]

it's still there

[@terrell757]

The firmament is real that’s why they keep testing it… we can’t leave earth which means the WHOLE NASA Organization is a fraud and so called space isn’t real!! 😂😂😂

[@thomassolomon-hd1jz]

Finally found some one who believes in flat earth

[@2Bad2Real]

​@@thomassolomon-hd1jzthey become the norm brother. The people keeps getting dumber and dumber, look at all the comments

[@Ancientumoto]

What the fuck are you guys talking about

[@the_gunners]

So now i understand why , sometimes rain 🌧️☔ falls with some fish 🐠🐟 from above i have witnessed this

[@anton972yehuda]

Great hint ma guy

[@Aworldwithoutcash]

It does make sense now that you e mentioned it.. it’s like a window opens up In different parts of the firmament for travelers beyond, then some water and fish falls … maybe

[@kdramalovers3813]

Damn that makes sense. It was kind of mysterious

[@LeDrew8]

The rocket hit the firmament

[@Geomar74]

Thank you

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

No it did not. Second stage flew on for minutes after 1st stage blew up. It blew from flight termination system. Multiple engines blew up.

[@Modz01Won]

​@@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alotstill believe we went to the moon huh? Let me guess🤔 the reason we haven't went back to the moon is because we lost the technology in a fire right👍

[@AngryAmericanPrepper]

Exactly what I was going to say

[@hdirkfosd2546]

​@@Modz01Wonno but because it costs billions of Dollars and wasn't worth it. Are all countries in on the conspiracy? Because the japanese fotographed the landing site and the soviets would've had to be in on it too

[@johnt3ducati]

Why did it look like that? The shockwave looked like it pierced something

[@henrysteel4049]

Attempted to pierce. I cannot figure out.... Why. Why do they feel they can even penetrate Gods FIRMAMENT.

[@ieashawoods3663]

It did, the firmament, the dome lol

[@HmImAnonymous]

Not really, I think you're just blind

[@ايوبالواعي]

​@@henrysteel4049There is no god but Allah alone with no partner

[@henrysteel4049]

@@ايوبالواعي In other words.....SATAN??

[@ciscosand]

Big splash of the waters above 💯 It hit the firmament

[@henrysteel4049]

Omg it sooo did.

[@treek10k]

​@@henrysteel4049we never went to the moon.

[@henrysteel4049]

@@treek10kNot even close

[@KpTheFth]

it is in the Bible, first page, ppl blind these days

[@Ilovemydogssssssss]

truth@@treek10k

[@jonEmontana]

The cry at the end of video was priceless!

[@gutluckbro9802]

????

[@billlance6211]

Little boy was upset his widdle wocket xsprowded...

[@ThePopularCult7]

Psalm 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

[@mimz1555]

And even NASA's very own Wernher Von Braun has that verse on his gravestone! All there in plain sight for those who have eyes to see.

[@GiancarloDiamond]

What did he mean ?

[@ThePopularCult7]

@@GiancarloDiamond There is a solid firmament encapsulating the Earth. Wernher Von Braun put Psalm 19:1 as a reference to the fact that NASA cannot break through the firmament.

[@thekinglionofjudah]

How long are they going to play this game?

[@christimueller4412]

It did exactly what they wanted it to do…well, sort of. They wanted it to go through the firmament. It hit it, but it didn’t go through it!!

[@Ghee768]

Maybe the rocket did break through but the firmament closed back up like a body of water would if you dropped a rock in it. Does that make sense? Or maybe it did not make it through but still caused the firmament to lose its shape but close back up. It definitely looks like what dropping and rock in a puddle would look like ripple out and around and then regain its normal shape of water.

[@christimueller4412]

@@Ghee768 That’s does make sense. I’ve read where there was a place that was being drilled into and it closed back on the drill and they had to stop.

[@DonnyBrisco]

Job 37: 18= the waters above the unbreakable firmamet.

[@SeKretMarie]

That why the baby cried They know what's up

[@macs3948]

@@christimueller4412Kola Borehole is what you’re thinking of

[@jasondelaloire9167]

Looks very similar to the operation fishbowl footage.

[@anton972yehuda]

Great hint man! Respect 🥷🙏

[@leolira9462]

Pink Floyd were just two lost souls swinging in a fishbowl year after year

[@kylebatteson9572]

The most expensive fireworks show ever.

[@kedrednael]

The explosion looks so white and splashy because it happens so high up. The rocket is just two big pressure vessels, one filled with liquid oxygen and one with liquid methane. When the rocket crashes on the ground that oxygen and methane is kept close to each other and mixed because it hits the ground-level-pressure air. This enables it to explode in a massive fireball. High up (90km), the oxygen and methane can just expand away quickly. They do not mix, the pressure is very low, and the methane does not encounter much oxygen from the air. This 'explosion' is absolutely huge by the way, much larger than a ground level fireball explosion. The rocket is 71 meters tall and you cannot even see it, you can only see the gas it is emitting. It may be several kilometers large. The 'explosion' dissapears like that because the liquid evaporates. It's similar to how the rocket exhaust (from falcon 9, which burns oxygen and kerosine) is an intensly bright, narrow flame at ground level, but when the altitude increases the exhaust expands and the fire dissapears.

[@OkOk-sx7tx]

Blah blah blah blah......Long story short....It it hit the dome.

[@roycampbell3433]

Nice story bro but I've got a better one but my one's fact it just hit Gods dome above the earth.

[@tubecated_development]

@@roycampbell3433 ‘but my one’s fact’ You forgot that beliefs aren’t facts. You don’t get your own set of facts when it comes to physics. They are universal.

[@kedrednael]

@@roycampbell3433 it's weird how God's dome is selectively destroying the rocket AT A LOWER ALTITUDE than the one that continued on.. And how it let through the hundreds of other rocket launches which are filmed and have put their satellites into orbit, which you can see at night yourself. Really quite weird isn't it. If you have a mobile phone you can download an app to access al your sensors. Your phone has an air pressure meter. You can measure how the air pressure drops if you go higher (climb stairs or whatever). What's so hard to believe that a powerful rocket explodes.. very high up, thus at low air pressure.

[@DARKENEDDAYZFILMPRODUCTIONS]

Bro the fuel was already spent. Lmfao 🤡

[@timalexander6252]

"Thou shalt not pass!" - God

[@philipchesleyiii]

120 Falcon 9 launches in the past two years. They all made it through just fine.

[@jockcity]

Gold comment. 🏆

[@anton972yehuda]

@@philipchesleyiiinope nothing ever left the earth realm son.

[@philipchesleyiii]

@@anton972yehuda So all the launches are CGI, except this one because it helps support your delusion? Try listening to yourself.

[@philipchesleyiii]

@@anton972yehuda On top of that they knowingly and purposely flew a rocket into it? Airing it on TV? Edit - it didn't hit anything in my opinion

[@loveistheway8417]

Annnnnd then it hit the firmament 😂😂😂

[@rikormsby943]

thats why they dont go straight up it banks ;) lol glad some1 in the comments got it right

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

The ONLY shocking thing here, is how badly the Forbes News headline writer is. This TEST flight nailed all the important moments for this TEST.

[@travis8180]

Lmao it's literally a factual title..

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

@@travis8180 The only people it is 'shocking' too, are those too imbecilic to understand what a TEST flight is for. Like 'journalist', and 'copy writers'.

[@HelipOfficial]

@@travis8180 technically the 2nd flight was shocking because it achieved all the necessary checks. Of course it almost reached orbit, hopefully by the third launch we can finally have near-orbit results on the ship

[@gjpercy]

@@travis8180 "shocking" is not part of any purely factual report.

[@markmontagna7637]

⁠@@travis8180yes it’s factual in the same way that the title “vehicle crash safety test ends in massive wreck” is a factual title.

[@somewhereinseventhsontime]

Why in 50+ years can't we go to the moon again?

[@pingpongpaddlehead]

Again?

[@kristannchigro2074]

A lie.

[@garlandhadley2159]

Again? You believe a man on the moon before you believe a God in heaven, Why?

[@captglenn100]

Who says we cannot? NASA is launching Artemis II late next year (2024) which will be a manned flight around the moon. This spacecraft is the test vehicle before sending Artemis III. Artemis III will actually land a manned spacecraft on the Moon.

[@andyman8630]

@@garlandhadley2159 yes! i believe in facts rather than imaginary friends

[@evolveintelligently]

I’ve never seen an explosion quite like that

[@MrItaliano1900]

Il firmamento è una cupola di acqua

[@kedrednael]

No one has I think. This is the largest rocket, and it "exploded" at 90km altitude, basically in a vacuum. That's why it's not like a normal fireball explosion. In the vacuum the liquid oxygen and liquid methane (fuel of the rocket) just expand away quickly without mixing, quickly losing pressure.

[@rwooshme1118]

​@@kedrednaellol

[@anton972yehuda]

Water splash

[@OkOk-sx7tx]

blahblah blah long story short.....firmament @@kedrednael

[@russt.1535]

Kinda looks like it splashed into some water no? Looks like if you flipped it and I was coming down into the water here, it’d look similar.

[@Dp3.16]

Firmament waters above

[@rodrigoo0102]

Genesis 1:7 Deus fez o firmamento, que separou as águas que estão sob o firmamento das águas que estão acima do firmamento.

[@cotystory]

This one is freaking me out

[@coolchoicebro1988]

It did look exactly like that!

[@anton972yehuda]

The separative dome! You see he/those who created our realm had to create an air bubble in the Devine unknown to us earth realm creatures ocean for us to be able to exist. Now the satanic rulers of this world are trying to hide it for more then a hundred years (if you research deep enough you reach information that Antarctica is the edge of our realm and we live on a plane level surface covered by a dome) and this is factual and also proven countless times.

[@donnacreamer4123]

It’s not good to fire rockets up trying to “break through the glass ceiling!”

[@njiomonansichristianfreder6374]

Firmament.

[@nathanacreman7517]

Guess its a good thing there is no such ceiling.

[@JulietSpoto-pn2lx]

Ain't that the truth though sister! ❤

[@JulietSpoto-pn2lx]

​@@nathanacreman7517Lies and more lies. People aren't as dumb as some think.

[@willardwayne3]

Betcha these rockets NEVER experience "outer space ". I'll bet that NO rocket has ever experienced "outer space"!

[@isaiah82682]

It was no malfunction. It hit the firmament an exploded

[@carson5110]

then please do explain how the second stage continued going

[@isaiah82682]

It didn't reach it yet. It's high up their. Why would it explode if we been going to the moon an space for years now. Why would it explode if we have the tech already to go into space. A rocket isn't anything new. Rockets just fly out of our sight so we think they in space. This the longest distance a rocket has traveled

[@nothingheretowatch7371]

WTF It looks like the rocket hit something in the sky, weird

[@tsangaarmand]

He it the firmament its writte in the Bible

[@nothingheretowatch7371]

@@tsangaarmand where?

[@tsangaarmand]

@@nothingheretowatch7371 Genese at the beginning

[@juanadames2267]

Ain't nothing passing that dome

[@anton972yehuda]

It was absorbed by the dome ! Lookup project fishbowl

[@Ghee768]

I’m convinced that’s definitely a miraculous dome. The rocket penetrated the dome blew up or maybe even made it all the way through. Judging offf the speed and force of the rocket after penetration the dome reshaped and closed up. It literally looked like what would happen if you dropped a big rock from a distance in a deep body of water.

[@407dayday]

my mother was saying something similar. to me it just looks like gases releasing and expanding at a rapid rate

[@malika.k]

It’s a spiritual seal no one can break it. Only God when he break the last seal . The sky will crack open , split . And the heaven will show they’re waisting their time

[@ieashawoods3663]

@@malika.k exactly, they keep trying to break it but they can’t and they won’t.

[@jessicachristmas7898]

If it got through do you think it’s just floating in the firmament? Serious question

[@DualApproachGolf]

​@@407dayday No

[@pvgodchaser]

It is water above us, this is what you seen

[@theTruthLifeNWay]

Psalm 19:1❤

[@ThatShitGood]

❤️‍🔥

[@alexsanchez3635]

The waters from Above are Deeper then the waters from Below ,it's like trying to put a Rocket through the Atlantic Ocean not happening

[@quantutem4096]

The baby cry was everything 😂

[@goodboy2022002]

Elon Musk just showed you the firmament pay attention people !!!!!

[@hfbpa8896]

Look at all the clapping seals watching that rocket hit the firmament.

[@GamingWithHybrid]

" Clapping seals " 🤣

[@Jesus_Christ_loves_you_alot]

No? Second stage flew on for minutes after the 1st stage blew up...

[@mardocheeahama9213]

😂😂😂😂 best one I ever heard

[@cocodalish]

You need to stop looking at them as if they are your own kind. I see humans clapping because I'm a human but a seal sees other seals clapping, because they are a seal.

[@mardocheeahama9213]

@@cocodalish 🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂

[@theantiband3777]

That was NOT a failure. It was an incredible success. The ammount of data is priceless, they fixed what went wrong last time an proved the concept. Find someone who knows anything at all about space flight to report on this please.

[@jamesxiaolong2199]

Generally speaking when it comes to spacecraft meant for humans. It’s a failure if it explodes.

[@georgeslupski5987]

Lol

[@camaro25]

Yup. Their only goal for this launch was the separation of Starship from the first stage booster. Once it separated, this mission was considered a success. Anything else that happened afterwards wasn't a big deal so the booster blowing up was fine.

[@theantiband3777]

And they proved the FTS so the incident report should be minimal.@@camaro25

[@christophersmith49]

stop kissing as. I saw same in the 1960's first color documentaries. Not realy a quntum leap. Even shape is still the same, as are the engines. Where is the warp drive lol and puls drive or at least solar wind drive or something moderrn and different from burning our fosil ancestors lol

[@mannysykes]

Guys… it looks like how water looks when you drop something heavy onto it. It even settled like water and disappeared

[@LerrTV]

I already guessed , neil armstrong never arrive at to the moon.

[@MrEagle2704-OFFICIAL]

All the news outlets give the impression that it failed, when in reality it went surprisingly well

[@veganconservative1109]

The News Industry wants failure. Failure breeds depression. Depressed people are more likely to comply with any fake news.

[@repentorperish133]

It sure did! Elon refuses to take note of what happened to those in Babylon who wanted to build that tower reaching past the firmament! I tell you what though - he's a little persistent one, isn't he? But he ain't, nor will he ever get past the firmament!

[@Gaming.hubb1]

Its questionable why these tests always end up in explosions

[@johnsmith23ist]

@codyfrisch4378No I have a better answer… it’s simple, they are trying to penetrate the earths dome

[@ronrowefc]

The firmament that God created my boy

[@unknownwarrior5672]

Let’s see. Could it possibly be that the whole purpose of doing tests is trying to reach new heights and see what goes wrong to collect data from errors? Jeez who would have thought

[@damiann123]

because rockets are untested new machinery that are 200 tons worth of metal travelling 3000 mph burning 3000 degrees of straight fuel and we have barely an idea on how to create them and use them

[@Kartoffelmoses479]

Didn't explode. It's called the Twilight effect

[@MetalMakeover]

Applause got louder when it exploded, thought it was like a fireworks show, yay, look how purdy that one was.

[@thangpongplam9556]

Hit the firmament

[@Maxlly]

Exactly

[@ItsAllLuv]

🎯🎯🎯

[@kedrednael]

You should see the hundreds of rocket launches that did make it to orbit or even other planets maybe.. You can find many livestreams on SpaceX channel. Or you can google when you can see the ISS for yourself and see it with your own eyes, coming over brighter than Venus exactly when predicted.

[@thangpongplam9556]

@@kedrednael All cgi launch.

[@Maxlly]

@@kedrednael you mean the Green screen stuff. Look at how realistic Marvel movies are. They use the same movie tech to fool people. None of it is real. Space is water and nobody can break the firmament

[@AnotherKid23]

This is why ALL of NASA’s spaceships curve instead of going straight up.

[@anton972yehuda]

Fact!

[@Ethan_Roberts]

It's called orbit

[@k.m.8299]

@@Ethan_Robertshello. How do you know? Do you know from personal experience? Have you orbited the earth yourself? Have you traveled to outer space yourself? The objective should be to get or discover the truth of the matter, whatever the truth is. What if we have been lied to all of our lives about the world in which we live. We don’t know from personal experience, that we can orbit the earth in a space ship. We know what we are/have been told, and we assert that as factual. What if it isn’t?

[@Ethan_Roberts]

​@@k.m.8299 yes, I do know from personal experience and observation. I take photos of spacecraft, such as the ISS, using my own telescopes and I can see what orbits the earth. We're not being lied to when a simple observation from home confirms what everybody says about orbits or space travel. Here you can see footage of the ISS I've taken: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4eapIKeh7yle9E And footage of a Falcon 9 second stage performing a deorbit burn about 2 hours after it launched Starlink satellites: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sInJlZiqq9GDqrs There is no conspiracy about space, just willful ignorance.

[@AdventuresAwait123]

@@k.m.8299do satellites work from within the firmament? Honest question

[@for1t]

so... waters above?

[@anton972yehuda]

Exactly!

[@bukoyzzztv1134]

Fr

[@amr1tdl]

The Rocket hit the domo!

[@jabarijohnson4531]

They hit the firmament and it was splash above. Look how it hit and the reaction of the pattern of it shown. Also, cmon now haven’t gotten a new picture of the earth in years. 💀

[@imbored1514]

Legit how are these people functioning it's insane.

[@damiann123]

we have, and i could take one with a weather balloon right now

[@paulmiller7396]

The only thing shocking is you didn’t even watch spaceX’s live feed before launch wherein they explained the goals for this test. You are not news, you are drama.

[@weakish]

Cope.

[@mastercats]

You stan so hard.

[@zachmoyer1849]

@@mastercats he is right though the information is there

[@markmontagna7637]

@@weakish cope is shifting goals afterward he is comparing the launch to the goals set before and correctly stating that this launch met those goals

[@paulward4268]

So pleased to see that the media STILL have No Idea what the flight plan entailed. But dont let reporting on the successes of the flight get in the way of some good old fashioned sensationalism, right?

[@bigd60]

Water above reacting to the hitting of the firmament.

[@soahc-chaos]

It was a successful test of the booster and stage separation.

[@JulietSpoto-pn2lx]

On a positive note

[@SirCavas]

And for the Water Deluge System, and for the AFTS.

[@tylerdurden4006]

Lmfao, bcoz america has never had a rocket that is capable of going to the moon and having stages separating the last 6 decades? Weird flex but okay 👍 what a success we have to learn everything all over again and blow up every launch despite having rhe technology for over 6 decades already...😂😂

[@anorak-adenoids]

@@tylerdurden4006 these new rockets are capable to land themselves and bring up such heavy payloads never fathomed before. For the last 6 decades we've been a space travel equivalent of destroying an airplane after every flight. Space Shuttle was an exception, as it could return, yet no longer flies, could never reach moon, and could never bring anywhere near as heavy payload. To Mars and beyond!!!

[@Reanimator7336]

Lol. You are funny. Nothing leaves Earth. It hit The Firmament. Its Gods world not the rich liars world.

[@LegalFiction.]

Does anyone not see what there trying to do? There trying to break through the glass dome. The biblical and very real firmament.

[@anton972yehuda]

They have eyes yet they do not see, they have ears yet they do not hear, they have a mind that is controlled.

[@carson5110]

@@anton972yehuda Get a grip dude. The firmament is our atmosphere, God created it to separate the elements we need to live from the ones in space (the waters above) that don't support our life.

[@GiancarloDiamond]

Facts bro

[@Antstrumentals]

Man i hope we get the close up footage of the explosion from that piece that separated

[@IronScytheGamers]

so quite literally another successful test then. Why do Forbes continually do this in their titles? such a joke of a media outlet.... GG Musk, GG!

[@rudolphna54]

All media outlets do this, because "BIG ROCKET EXPLODES!!!! FAILURE!!! draws more clicks than "BIG ROCKET SUCCESSFULLY REACHES SPACE"

[@abdou.the.heretic]

​@@rudolphna54hold my hyperloop

[@sircaliber1]

Its a fail dont cry

[@rowanreid836]

It’s not really a faliure if it’s not expected to succeed

[@paulmagid]

@@sircaliber1 You are saying that like failure is a bad thing. Musk and Spacex believes in "fail fast" and that is why he is doing things that NASA and the US government could never do.

[@JHeinz-td4jd]

2:36 Don't think about this rocket hitting anything.. Don't think about water... Don't think of a firmament... *It's just a normal explosion... 🤫🧠*

[@DonnyBrisco]

Yup, Job 37:18

[@anton972yehuda]

Good joke ❤

[@straighttalk2069]

The engines (ALL THE ENGINES) performed perfectly. The hot staging however caused more problems than it cured. After hot staging happens and the booster separates you can see an explosion in the top of the booster that destroyed everything.

[@nathanacreman7517]

I watched the separation several times, did not see any explosions at all. The phase 2 rocket is designed to ignite prior to separation and the ring is designed with cutouts to allow flames to escape from the sides, maybe what you noticed was that, but that is the system doing exactly as it is supposed to do. It looks like the issue they were really having was the stage one had reignition problems.

[@RandomRoulett3]

@@nathanacreman7517 And the first stage is also designed to use cold gas thrusters to flip itself around for the deorbit burn. So the poster might also be referring to the outgassing seen right after stage separation.

[@rowanreid836]

The explosion was on the engine, and a failed real turn to launch Site is not mission critical, especially when it’s only got a 50/50 chance of success

[@johnnichols8553]

The explosions on the booster came from the engine end, not the hot staging end. One engine failed, then another, then another. SpaceX will figure out why and fix it.

[@tylerdurden4006]

All the Russian proton engines, even Russia couldn't get them all to fire, congrats.

[@alfhid1947]

The amount flat earthers in the comments demonstrate the education system in the United States has failed

[@unknownwarrior5672]

Yep

[@Angelesoflordgod]

The truth is stranger than fiction.

[@Jvriiin]

Sleep tight 💀👁️🛸

[@logooniguy1426]

That isn't just America that does that 💀💀

[@damiann123]

yup

[@GiancarloDiamond]

That looked like a splash in a water 💧

[@haroun7777]

Firmament

[@sprinklelouis]

And……SPLASH!

[@Soulizto_Beyondae]

We are really living in a dome.

[@light5699]

It's a bummer, but it is encouraging to see them not give up. That's why they got this far with so much. Failure isn't final.

[@rexrocker1268]

They all assumed it would have a problem. It’s tests. I didn’t see it as being shocking like the story title claims. I expected it. I think the Starship was lost too.

[@JulietSpoto-pn2lx]

Failure is a reality for mere humans, not for The King of Kings!

[@letterkeys4440]

It wasnt a failure though?

[@truewax257]

Amen to that!! @@JulietSpoto-pn2lx

[@KNETTWERX]

@@letterkeys4440no. They had a full flight plan set up, however the goal was to just make it to hot staging. Anything after that was just a bonus. With the rapid reiteration capability, and the data and knowledge gained today, they can make improvements. Failure is only when you don’t learn from what goes wrong.

[@indigobluu]

Stage two separation and seco also happened for the record. Great flight! 👍

[@michello-ve759]

In fact, the firmament

[@unknownwarrior5672]

@@michello-ve759go away

[@Ron-jw3ty]

Another hit the firmament. They will never break through it

[@anton972yehuda]

Amen

[@jomarleyduncan8575]

why does it look like water, the spaceship hit

[@anton972yehuda]

Because it did hit the dome separating the waters creating and sustaining our realm of existence. It’s so simple yet the program has a firm grip over your mind (mind control)

[@Ahahahahahah2]

​@@anton972yehuda100%

[@damiann123]

because there's low air pressure that high in the atmosphere which is why the explosion looked white

[@fbm9001]

@@damiann123ok but why does it seem like the exploded rocket got swallowed by water/it seemed it submerged?

[@ITZZZ_POODAAA]

Yall really think we can get to “space” like cmon we live under a firmament aint nothing going past it 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@MrHoward0007]

WATER ABOVE US

[@gioc2825]

Water is above us! You can’t brake the dome.

[@chrisjamesjr]

So where did the rocket go

[@bukoyzzztv1134]

​@@chrisjamesjrit broke probably

[@taylorallen4359]

@@chrisjamesjrit literally exploded lol

[@alexb3479]

That was the most majestic looking thing, ever

[@4RingsOfSaturn]

Looks like a underwater explosion

[@haroun7777]

The firmament of earth, you should know that there is no space

[@AstralApple]

​@@haroun7777 It's not the firmament. It's just an aetherically rarefied ocean on high, or aetheric sky ocean. The first major firmament could be as high as 18,000 miles high above the Earth.

[@kittitaskid]

I was in the rocket launching business for a long time. Sometimes they blow up.

[@DonnyBrisco]

Firmament = Job 37:18

[@lorren2002]

Google Hebrew cosmology of the earth. Those images are the true depiction of the earth. The earth is not a globe. It does not rotate. It is stationary, and in a fixed position.

[@LordiscomingTV]

The spaceship hit the firmament , the hardest glassy ceiling.

[@Ethan_Roberts]

There is no firmament

[@lorren2002]

@@Ethan_Roberts There most certainly is, and you are going to find out very soon, but by then, it will be too late. Many of us have faith, to know that this is true, but for others, they must see with their own eyes. Well I can give you this proof if you are serious about knowing.

[@Ethan_Roberts]

@@lorren2002 go on then, what's your proof? I bet you avoid that question anyway like every other reality denier pushing the same lies

[@Sikkid]

The firmament is strong with this one jedi

[@chrisjamesjr]

So you mean the rocket went into water

[@orlandorosado2157]

Successful despite experiencing "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly".

[@pingpongpaddlehead]

Double speak is so common

[@KeepItBrief89]

Firmament 😂😂😂

[@saideduardo6764]

In the bible, the firmament means sky😃 please re-read the bible!!

[@saideduardo6764]

But either way they always launch other rockets and they don’t explode🗿

[@Caesarz2010]

Amen... the waters are ABOVE AND BELOW the firmament. They almost got it Wright. That rocket hit the water above

[@bukoyzzztv1134]

​@@saideduardo6764well you didnt need to say that its sky cuz he never said its never a sky

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

I saw this live with my dad on the KZbin livestream. It scared the s*** out of me when it exploded because I thought there must’ve been at least a dozen people dead. Thank god that wasn’t the case.

[@TommyGun-mv9xn]

Word on the street is that Musk paid San Fran homeless to jump onboard.

[@AntiAzovIndividual]

Watched it live too and took a video of it in case they pull that 2001 event censorship and they take down all the evidence and say “well there’s no videos to debunk it🤷‍♂️” better safe than sorry

[@7cheland]

Ppl rlly think u can leave earth

[@sebastiannolte1201]

Well, you see a video of a rocket that leaves earth. Every airplane leaves the earth.

[@ChickenJoe928]

Can’t break the firmament

[@9917plkk]

Touched the dome

[@emetpowell7346]

Oh wow, the firmament

[@anton972yehuda]

Indeed

[@johnnyboyer8851]

The amount of people that take the firmament as an actual dome and can’t see that Genesis is just referring to the atmosphere is beyond me. Science and religion can coexist.

[@Kartoffelmoses479]

It did NOT explode, it's called the twiligt effect. It occurs if the launch takes place either 30 min before sunrise, or 30 min after sunset. Something with the shade cast on the night side of the globe, and illumination of the day side of the globe. Then it will look like this, when it pierces the atmosphere. It is rare, and it looks spectacular, but it did not explode, and it had nothing to do with "NoT bEiNg AbLe To LeAvE tHe FiRmAmEnT" or the sky being water. It is simply science, and "normal" ecen tho it does not happen that often, u less it is times right. Nothing exploded and no one died.

[@Ethan_Roberts]

It exploded

[@repentorperish133]

@@Ethan_Roberts yup! LOL! It sure did!!

[@Ethan_Roberts]

@@repentorperish133 you literally see it in the video and the cause is well understood. What else would it be?

[@Coldspark5]

They are trying to break the firmament

[@Ethan_Roberts]

There is no firmament

[@bukoyzzztv1134]

​@@Ethan_Robertsyah i agree but pls replace your "no" with "a"

[@Ethan_Roberts]

@@bukoyzzztv1134 why? There is no magic firmament that you blindly believe exists

[@hfbpa8896]

“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt”…Elon Musk

[@LCM-kj7ct]

If they are happy with bread and circuses they require leadership. - common logic.