Ignition of the Most Powerful Rocket In The World: SpaceX's Starship

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[@illusiveelk2558]

"sir, we've already spent 25% of our fuel." "What is our altitude?" "40ft, sir."

[@eribertoacedo9505]

Sergeant do you see the sky? Yes sir I don’t want it there. Yes, sir.!

[@SurajMapariPrivate]

😂😂😂

[@miguelcorcos6234]

Yeah right ,and that is how the vulcans comes to hear about us ,🖖🖖🖖

[@thomasmartin7425]

Lol. Switch to economy mode.

[@MrIzmirli35]

There is always a ideot like you but funny ideot 😂

[@BoostedMike2]

The world's largest excavator, and also the world's largest sand blaster all rolled into one

[@debug8377]

world's most powerful rocket, most powerful excavator and sandblaster. a 3 in 1 package

[@wdwerker]

30 engines to begin with! They stated that 3 were not lit for the launch.

[@DIAZEXMACHINA]

Engines were damaged by debris; if I was an investor I would be enraged. Basic launch engineering.

[@wdwerker]

@@DIAZEXMACHINA what part of test to failure then modify and try again don’t you understand? They build these fairly rapidly for the aerospace industry and try innovative solutions to achieve the results. It wasn’t ever going to fly again so there wasn’t a big loss. When the Soviet N1 failed it destroyed the entire launch site. They already had a water cooled steel baseplate in fabrication before the launch so some damage was anticipated.

[@dislike__button]

​@@DIAZEXMACHINA lol, you would never be a SpaceX investor, even if you had money.

[@alexxbaudwhyn7572]

There is no more sound left on Earth. This rocket used it all up

[@salmudeen7620]

😂🎉❤❤❤😢😮😅😊

[@salmudeen7620]

😂🎉❤❤❤😢😮😅😊

[@danielebiundo6373]

😂😂😂😂

[@farmerjohn2262]

I've never seen a rocket launch where flames shot out from the sides. 😮 Amazing!🎉

[@kampretmemanggila8649]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh fuck

[@AmericanCrusader222]

I don’t think people understand. That’s a 40 story building taking off with the power of an unimaginable amount of thrust.

[@Drew-be5dh]

That’s because people are f’ing stupid.

[@shayorshayorshayor]

You thought wrong.

[@vikinginfidel4293]

To me that's the beauty of what these rocket engineers deal with, they have to strike a perfect balance between thrust and overall weight of the rocket, fuel, AND payload. Every nut, bolt, rivet, and weld has to be added to the equation to make sure these machines can make it to orbit. I'm not taking anything away from the SpaceX team but it really makes me appreciate what NASA in the early days accomplished without all the powerful computer tech we have nowadays to simulate this stuff before the first part is even built. NASA deserves a bigger budget than they have at the moment, these private companies are making them look like the old man in the neighborhood lol

[@mikemars5984]

​@shayorshayorshayor why?

[@mrlightseeker2556]

It's not an unimaginable thrust... It's a defined and correlated with proper sync...

[@andysedgley]

"Damn, she's in neutral, shift her into first my man!"

[@ruffryder8125]

😂😂😂

[@arsalan8927]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@matthewmartinez3774]

😂😂😂👌🏾👌🏾

[@awesomo9262]

Oops! stalled it😅 ugh embarassing

😂😂😂😂

[@MasterSethern]

This Rocket didn't lift itself, it simply pushed the earth away from it. Now that's a powerful Rocket!

[@user-vy8eh3op4e]

Actually you could be right. The rocket very well could be pushing the Earth away from it and staying totally still the whole time. No evidence that that's not the case, just a matter of perception.

[@user-vy8eh3op4e]

@fruit-punchsamurai4452 then let's just agree by saying instead of just pushing the Earth the entire universe is what's moving, not the rocket. There, now the sun is still the same distance from Earth in this scenario =P

[@charlesdarwin6224]

​@@user-vy8eh3op4e there's plenty of evidence to show a rocket can't "push" earth away from itself.

[@middletownislandersbasketb364]

Not quite. It’s like a balloon: air goes one way and balloon goes the other. Not pushing the earth. Newton’s third law

[@MasterSethern]

@@middletownislandersbasketb364 Dude... Wow, lol.

[@fishhunt9874]

Love how he made it “Pointy” 😂

[@Jeremy.Bearemy]

I mean that's the shape rockets usually are. Do you want it to be flat?

[@fishhunt9874]

@@Jeremy.Bearemy Ugh! Admiral, General Aladeen “The rocket is too round at the top,it needs to be pointy. Round is not scary, pointy is scary” The dictator scene. Elon Musk made his rockets more pointy all because of this movie scene. There is no aerodynamic benefit to this, there could actually be a slight deficit but they are pointy because Elon thought it was funny.

[@user-ie7vg7ht7w]

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤐

[@droiduser1984]

​​@@fishhunt9874 true -- he mentioned that on Joe Rogan's podcast

[@davidpawson7393]

​@@fishhunt9874His cars can fart when you use the turn signal. Who does that? I would.

[@bradgrier4228]

That changes my perspective on my neighbor starting his car in the mornin

[@HALOasmr108]

😂

[@howdywowey2165]

Real tribute to the structural integrity of the Starship. Sat there for 4 of 5 seconds on the pad at 80% thrust and it didn't rattle itself to death.

[@oljimeagle6779]

Mfer did cartwheels and never even seperated... Auto strut for the win.

[@totorochan-yk9mj]

It's all water under there. Flowing like crazy, tons of it.

[@jonathanhinds7117]

​@@totorochan-yk9mjnot at this launch ended up being a pretty big problem

[@sticky170]

Sure looked like it did😂

[@scottishadonis]

@@totorochan-yk9mjThis is the launch where the rocket destroyed the launch pad then went bye bye…

[@rogergregory5981]

It's a wonder it didn't just explode before it cleared the tower from all the shrapnel flying up from the blast

[@dogwalker666]

That's exactly what it looks like, The flame tunnels appear to be blocked.

[@CognizantApe]

Yeah, I wonder if that's why a handful of engines were not firing

[@tobiandobito3736]

@@dogwalker666 That's the thing. I'm sure this launchpad did not have a flame tunnel.

[@dogwalker666]

@@tobiandobito3736 Rumours are that it didn't, Very expensive mistake.

[@FrankyFeedler]

@@dogwalker666 In fact, design has it that it didn’t. There really was no flame tunnel. Well, there was after the launch 😅

[@abomabom-wn1rb]

Jees the vibrations came straight through the phone till I realized someone was calling lmfao. Seriously those guys what an amazing congregation of brains, Respect....😊

[@premm23]

When NASA says you are fired. You fire NASA 😂❤🎉

[@brucerogers3253]

That could take care of the fire ants in my yard.

[@Limey2632]

It would take care of the yard, the house and you might upset the neighbors.

[@leestewart72]

Got any suggestions? I'm tired of playing wack a mole with fire ant hills. The Orthene doesn't really get rid of them, just causes them to move a few feet away.

[@Seanpence04]

Well, they say don’t fight fire with fire. I’d probably use this on a dolphin instead.

[@jeffstablein7206]

Eeh… I dunno. You ever had fire ants before lol

[@johnpob2486]

ROFL!

[@traviswilliams9104]

That thing was throwing house size chunks of concrete. Insane

[@robindehood207]

That launch platform is feeling the same way you chair feels the day after you eat curry.

[@wahed123as9]

❤

[@johntempest267]

Verner is smiling approvingly.

[@wahed123as9]

😢

[@andres1xy]

When 8 seconds feel like an eternity.

[@tokethedude1103]

That was much longer then 8 seconds what are you talking about?

[@gavinrush4995]

I thought it was gonna explode for sure watching it live, when all the huge debris started flying and no lift… I lost my shit when it started moving upwards. Freaking unbelievable achievement.

[@AllergicFungus]

Imagine being a bird near the launch pad just minding your own business, unaware of what catastrophe is coming.

[@heidifisher7693]

😆😆😆😆😆🐣🐥🕊🦅💣💥🚀⚰⚰⚰⚰⚰

[@-GoldenSTAR-]

They wouldn't just let any birds fly into an airspace like this. They have ways to deter flocks of birds and I'm sure just the sound from being even a couple of miles away is loud enough to do the job

[@rocklife1802]

🤣🤣🤣Random Bird: Holy bright light

[@ianzander5057]

​@@-GoldenSTAR-i think he was talking about the sound.

[@sgtgiggles]

@@-GoldenSTAR- no actually there’s footage of birds flying away from the site. SpaceX doesn’t exactly adhere to rules. The locals absolutely hate the launch facility

[@jkutnink87]

30 engines vs one which is the F1 used on the Saturn V. I'm extremely proud to say my family helped conceive, build and implement the engine for the space race.

[@Sycophants_should_suffer]

So what? It's completely irrelevant to life nowadays.

[@Chatta-Ortega]

The Saturn V had 5 F1 engines on the first stage. I don't like Starship having 30. It increases the odds of an engine failing.

[@justinejeffostansegovia7414]

HAPPY NEW YEARS 2024

[@philh8829]

You can see the sonic oscillations in the smoke and gas, so cool.

[@natecousins6264]

explain?

[@josedemorla5211]

What are sonic isolations

[@mikeiscoo2]

@@josedemorla5211 hes talking about the ripples you can see on the rocket right when ignition starts, they are the white lines

[@randygonzalez6250]

​@@mikeiscoo2Wut uh nurd, i bet u aint git no puhssie u dum nurd, syeins iz ghey & lerning iz dum u stoopid nurd i hav overr 20 chyldrin cuz i git so much puhssie & u dun git ne puhssie u dum nurd

[@kamratframjandet]

I love the fact that SpaceX actually have pricetags for space missions and rockets on their website, just like any online store. ”You want to bring an object weighing 40 tonnes to space? Yea that’ll be $140,259,000, cash or credit?”

[@bensharpe64]

Do they take Wendy’s gift cards?

[@baldmista1907]

@@bensharpe64 if you have several billions of them I’m sure they’ll accept

[@wilsonrawlin8547]

Absolutely insane amount of thrust energy being expelled by all of those rocket engines. Shock and Awe at the max.

[@RtB68]

I remember watching this holding my breath and turning blue waiting for the damn thing to just move. Heart pounding moment.

[@ottosboyen]

Ive been waitinf for this for years and seeing that thing lifting gave me goosebumps. I stood in my sofa screaming. Its unreal what Elon started. Amazing work by the SpaceX Team Cant wait for the second test !

[@digi3218]

All i could say and kept repeating was holy 'smokes' as I watched it take flight lol

[@gregtroufas8066]

we still cant travel anywhere in space with that not even mars

[@Big74Mike2012]

Lol You can't wait for the second test?! This was the THIRD test... all of which have exploded and/or broke apart in flight, including this one. *facepalm* You fan boys crack me up!!

[@loganford1220]

Liftoff looked impossible about 5 seconds in. Its just such a beast.

[@anthonydawson9700]

Ha the concrete hairdryer again 😅

[@psh951]

​@@anthonydawson9700oh yeah one of those cheeseburger stopwatches

[@djaa7]

The space x program basically works in the following way "just put more engines until it goes up."

[@PrimeGaming10]

Bro the rocket's stuck in neutral ! Put it in gear man ! T_T

[@AlexHumphries2314]

With the amount of potential for an explosion in the first 8 seconds I'm amazed it actually took all that beating and still managed to then move away. Solid booster! I did always say to my brother that it would need the flames to be diverted or lift it up higher off the floor.

[@AaronRich-so7ql]

You sound like Elon musk's brother 🍻

[@robertolima9696]

TAMBÉM ACHO !

[@watchm3ll0uai]

But it's obvious

[@infamoustimes2927]

There's a shit ton of extra flames coming from the middle to near the top that no other rockets had before. I hope those were planned and if so why?

[@AlexHumphries2314]

@@AaronRich-so7ql hahaa I see how I've written it lol

[@michaelhanson5773]

The real amazement is how that launchpad was still standing there holding the rocket for that long under all that heat and different forces... Especially when you see what the surrounding area looks like after a launch.

[@IrvRat1982]

What was all that stuff flying around? It looked like it destroyed something unless that was supposed to happen, like some breakaway holding part. Some like of shrapnel.

[@HaseenSiddiqi]

De CV rfffffg

[@BrianBallinger-gv6ck]

Another right turn and splash 👍

[@blueprince2330]

I'm already impressed with model rockets, describing this is beyond my vocabulary.

[@PoPphys]

If they made the top more pointy it probably would have been fine

[@francom6230]

So funny cuz Elon said they DID "made it more pointy" on Joe Rogan Show.. just because it's funny.. (movie: The Dictator, 2012)

[@bryanreilly4117]

​@@francom6230whooosh

[@trancetechkid]

I love at the end of that part of the interview when asked if making it pointy made it better and he says “Arguably slightly worse.” Joe just cackles..

[@ebybbob]

Haha brilliant comment

[@user-yz6rw3si3e]

Should have taken design tips from the pointy polygonal breasts of the Great Fairies from the Nintendo 64 game, "Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time."

[@Wilhuff_T]

Love the amount of experts in the comments section.

[@mystuff1405]

I would expect a lot of physics and engineering experts to be watching this. What is your specialty?

[@DeyRapingEveryone]

@@mystuff1405youtube shorts

[@davidbagley1783]

I'm a proud lib too the world owes us

[@arcare001]

@@davidbagley1783 Why do you think it owes you? Be specific. Thnx

[@imbeaultdaniel]

This is a free country and we can say whatever we want... It's why Elon Musk bought Twitter, to be sure to speak remains free.

[@Kaviranghari]

The fact that it took the raptor engines that long to generate enough thrust for liftoff tells me how massive that rocket is cause those engines are damn strong. And still take their sweet time to life the rocket

[@RandysFiftySevenChevy]

What my neighbors think every time I start my car

[@juanjodpr]

That sure was a very expensive excavator

[@VahSy-sc8cm]

U jealous ?🤣🤣

[@larryrayner8188]

@@VahSy-sc8cmlooked”o Oxider-rich!- Larry, the Ronkeyman!

[@exteriorized]

but wat more fun to watch

[@amostake]

Did anyone else have Challenger flashbacks when they saw the small thrusters on the side of the rocket firing? Made me freeze for a moment, until I realized it was supposed to do that.

[@davidlol1983]

Well considering that happened on solid rocket boosters no... only you thought that.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

These are not thruster, it's venting excess oxygen.

[@amostake]

@@SierraSierraFoxtrot Ah I see.

[@davidlol1983]

​@@SierraSierraFoxtrotwhat they saw may not be but there are most definitely thrusters on both the booster and star ship.....I don't understand why people who have no fucking clue comment.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

@@davidlol1983 no one said there aren't

[@agceh]

My sound on the toilet the day after eating at the local indian restaurant

[@blue_ish4499]

😂

[@charlesseymour1482]

Nasty

[@deanbrunner261]

now that's a real burnout

[@NadineLynch10]

Amazing, it still awes me to this day at the shear power of those 33 engines even though some got destroyed. But boy oh boy wasn’t she just magnificent

[@maxokream6269]

We are watching the history of the galaxy be written before our very eyes

[@HTOP1982]

Its strange that the Apollo missions 50 years ago had a 100 % launch to orbit. They designed and built those things using slide rules Yet techno-bros don't even think to built an appropriate pad. Go back to school.

[@iBittz]

​@@HTOP1982 Starship needs to be reusable and be able to be launched from Mars

[@MARSO-yz1ey]

​@@maxokream6269 😂

[@mudit1]

​@@HTOP1982 spacex don't use taxpayers money💀

[@ibo-milyar4847]

ايلون ماسك لقد بنى شيء استثنائي . انه سفينة فضائية بكل معنى الكلمة . ✌️👍

[@RichardParker-hj4up]

That landing pad got freaking rocked!!!

[@oreosandwich1519]

"Everything after the ship left the launchpad was icing on the cake" -SpaceX after the crash

[@Shuizid]

So that would mean the "cake" was, what? That a tube full of flammable content does indeed burn? What a waste of time and resources...

[@oreosandwich1519]

@@Shuizid that most of the merlin engines were working. The structural integrity of the rocket was good. The launching pad, although damaged, did a good job without a flame diverter/suppressor. The Navigation and Guidance system did all good. They were able to fire soooo many merlin engines at once controlling them together. That was the cake. Had you studied a little in your school, your little punk mind wouldn't say a non successful launch "waste of money" or call a rocker "tube full of flammables". Stupid

[@nielnielsen4822]

There told us that more than once before the lunch.

[@Kevin_Knox]

@@Shuizid Starship lifted off and cleared the tower, that was the "cake". Also, not a waste of anything, they gained a MOUNTAIN of telemetry data during the flight. In fact, it clearing the launch pad and not just blowing up on the ground saved them who knows how many millions.

[@Shuizid]

@@Kevin_Knox They also got a mountain of lawsuits due to the damage done to the environment, the surrounding area and peoples property. And seeing how half a dozen boosters got damaged because Elon was to cheap to install a proper launchpad - imagine how much more useful data they could have gained if the thing didn't need to be detonated. But sure, let's look at this failure caused by the insane ego of a cheapstake, rich-born brat and his desperate need to be a cool memer (4/20 launch) and just re-phrase it as a success because it didn't do a u-turn and launch downwards.

[@andrewhillis9544]

THAT FLYING DEBRIS IS INSANE ! ! !👍

[@olinfulk3805]

Love it! Mars here we come!

[@randallsmerna384]

That bored a 25 ft deep hole into the Earth and damaged the landing pad. Now they're going back to basics and putting in the blast diverters.

[@Figjamfishslayer]

One mans drive to succeed has provided so many incredible first for humanity. Keep it up E.

[@michaelsmith7425]

Yeah I respect him for that. He needs to keep out of current events though. Kids in caves, tyrants invading other countries.

[@DougieBarclay]

Neuralink is literally giving future ASI a headstart in dismantling humanity.

[@theonlycolby]

​@@michaelsmith7425 freedom of speech says otherwise 😂

[@theonlycolby]

​@@DougieBarclay at least he has been very vocal about the dangers around that type of stuff

[@user-tc8iq3sp5g]

Just imagine what he could do if the powers at be were on his side.

[@JULIAN11.]

I hadn't seen that lateral shot of the liftoff before. It's incredible how much concrete you can see being launched into the air even while the engines were emitting so much light. This gives you an idea of the potential damage that could have been caused It's amazing that it flew so far, and it's a testament to how good the booster engineers are

[@refulgent_fanta]

Surprisingly sturdy rocket.

[@kayshaver3702]

All i see is fire & smoke. How are you guys seeing concrete, shrapnel, other debris flying around?

[@JULIAN11.]

​​@@kayshaver3702A tiny bit before the rocket actually starts moving the concrete cracks, so there shouldn't, emphasis on shouldn't, be any flying concrete before that point An easy piece to spot in right when Starship begins to move, an entire slab of concrete (it was poured in big slabs rather than all at once) goes flying, you can see it at about the height of the booster (and right in front of the booster) grid fins And besides that there are countless pieces of concrete flying, in this footage is not that visible, but in others you can easily see the sand getting blown away by the impact of giant pieces, or impacting the water which is hundreds of meters away

[@lazarus2691]

"Sir, we've lost 3 engines! Should we abort the launch?" "Negative Corporal, there's nowhere left to land"

[@CEOofMpreg]

Starship has 33 engines (the booster). They're fine.

[@lazarus2691]

@@CEOofMpreg I'm aware. I was making a joke about the fact that this test flight had 3 engines fail immediately, but since the launch pad was destroyed they couldn't abort the launch.

[@CEOofMpreg]

@@lazarus2691 Rockets are out-of-this-world.

[@sebastianjarvie543]

The fact that this sound is real and isn’t bass boosted 😂

[@PhiloSage]

Every time I see that I feel the excitement of the launch.

[@hurithinkbefore1340]

When I saw her the first time years ago I was so looking forward to seeing her taking off! What a giant! What a beauty! THE POWER!

[@oeliamoya9796]

This has to have made new world records for loudest man made sound. My headphones practically vibrated out of my ears

[@alejandroberthel1387]

Es hermoso ser testigos de esta parte de la historia!!! Desafiando todá ley

[@deang5622]

It is obviously male looking at it, not female. You should refer to it as either he or it.

[@Aigentcy]

omg

[@eltonzandamela3747]

They are doing a great work

[@user-uq3su1ek7m]

I never seen a10 story building fly like that before. 😂 go space x yall rock.

[@Deetech1970]

Debris flew almost over the ships height

[@David-js6sg]

Sky Rockets 🚀 in Flight ✈️ afternoon Delight!😊

[@davidmcclosky705]

Well Yeah, there's always that ! 🤭

[@niftybass]

This was flight 1 in April 2023. KZbin is showing it like it's new. This is not flight 3.

[@SimonsAstronomy]

Thats a really heavy rocket when it stayed at the launch pad so long

[@Markgeoghegan100]

To be able to take off with the violent destruction happening below it is amazing... The booster took a serious beating from the concrete and still made it to 39km.... Hopefully the pad won't cause that on flight 2.....

[@erzahler1930]

An astronaut once said that a rocket is really nothing more than a controlled explosion.

[@patrickzimmerli9032]

That was one of the greatest moments in man's quest to explore space. It's too bad that Starship and it's booster decided to misbehave.😢

[@tobiasdelafuente2032]

It was an amazing success. If they waited a tad longer to install a water deluge system or something like that, rockets wouldn’t have failed and super heavy might have separated. All they wanted to do was to clear to tower! Cheers

[@Casperdghost618]

​@@tobiasdelafuente2032 would have liked to see starship seperate and attempt to reach orbit, hopefully the next iteration!😊

[@tobiasdelafuente2032]

@@Casperdghost618 yess

[@sexpistill]

Umm the engineers are responsible for negligence here, look at the pieces of the ship flying right on the pad

[@AG-ig8uf]

@@sexpistill Engineers knew and advised all along, flame trenches and water deluge systems were common practise since before Musk was born, but he insisted on "genius" cheap shortcut of using concrete.

[@user-dt5eo9sx7p]

다음번에는 테이프로 감아주세요 혹시 모르니까 😅

[@Sovietfoxx]

"Se me olle bien?" *Lo que escucha mi amigo*

[@clarencehopkins7832]

I never tire of watching this beast come to life and fly

[@ericblanchard5873]

Crazy to watch the giant pieces of concrete fly everywhere and probably put dents into the booster and lower parts of starship

[@digi3218]

Yeah the rocket is pretty resilient.. if it wasnt it most likely would have been punctured and exploded on the pad IMO

[@user-lq6vm8yt4h]

Everytime i look in disbelief how this giant just gets off the ground at all , i truly love what space X is doing been a space enthousiast since i was a little kid and was always facinated by the Saturn V story and the moonlandings This rocket will bring us back to an era just like it but this time we will go much deeper into space for the first time and its just unbelieveble

[@GENERALTIM21]

Would love to know what this sounded like in real life, the distortion from the recording and the playback through my speakers detracts from the awe that this event must have given in person

[@ljre3397]

The sheer power of that machine is incredibly impressive. Research Development can be helped when you don’t stick humans on top of everything you launch.

[@BC-ec9jz]

Whilst this was an amazing feat in every sense, the more you view some of the various footage, the more it appears that it was indeed a miracle she got off the pad because there was too much damage done during ignition. Still immense qudos to SpacEx. Commercial pressures aside, I hope they take their time to make sure the next time is everything we all want...a dream realized.

[@nanolog522]

Yeah, immense qudos (?). They managed to build a pad in a worse way than NASA did fifty years ago, damaged half their infrastructure, lost their vehicle to a bunch of stupid mistakes, got grounded by FAA and NASA, had a bunch of transport vehicles neatly lined up to be destroyed, and essentially just learned that they are too incompetent to even build a launch pad that doesn’t immediately destroy the craft. I mean, imagine the stupidity of not using flame trenches or a water deluge system on a rocket twice as powerful as Saturn V, when even the Space Shuttle relied on those systems to reduce damage to its own engines. I just can’t imagine how anyone could call this failure an „amazing feat“. The only thing amazing about this it the fact that they decided they would be go for launch when they decidedly were not.

[@juan_matus]

are you perhaps the BC i know from the ISS app ?

[@randomgamer3645]

@@nanolog522 i am pretty sure that the amazing scientists at spacex thought of that but there might have been other issues at hand

[@nanolog522]

@@randomgamer3645 Yeah... no. Or, I assume they thought of it, but Elon wanted to launch at 4/20, so they launched on 4/20 regardless of what the scientists thought. Because that is exactly how Musk, the withering narcissist, operates his companies. Look at the stream they did after their launch failed, or preferably the discussion of it by Common Sense Sceptic. Not only did Musk say that his rocket failing to fire up 10% of its engines, loosing a further 15% during flight, just reaching mach 1, failing to fire the flight termination system, destroying the pad and his tank farm, and the craft loosing total control at T+85 seconds "exceeded his expectations", he essentially admitted he just launched for the fun of launching something at 4/20 and essentially to try and dump a flawed rocket into the gulf of mexico so he did not have to get rid of it the correct way. Another fun part was when he said that the pad would be replaced by a water cooled metal plate that would fire water up against the engines "at enough pressure to counteract the power of the engines", obviously without realizing that this would entail firing water at a similar power as the engines itself against his pretty fragile rocket. His obvious lack of understand of the garbage he put out was astonishing. And bevause I assume SpaceX only hires competent people, I would assume that the person responsible for this absolutely embarrassing failure was the only person that nobody hired and that even has a track record of turning stupid ideas into even stupider failures, the one and only Elon "Look, I commit a financial crime and get thrown off the CEO position at Tesla for a weed joke" Musk.

[@carlosescobar5995]

​@@nanolog522 wow dude!

[@shishuchaudhary3806]

Sky rockets in flight afternoon delight ❤

[@BrianBoese-im8jm]

Light this Candle!!! The balls it takes... Awesome

[@gurusarabadagi1922]

Round is not scary , Pointy is scarryy💀

[@tkuvma4372]

Just imagine aliens seeing a d*ck the size of a building heading towards them 💀

[@user-iz2ln5fb4k]

I know that came from a movie.😅 I can't remember.

[@okat32]

@@user-iz2ln5fb4kthe dictator

[@Aid-kd5nx]

​@@user-iz2ln5fb4kthe dictator I'm pretty sure

[@jamiegardiner1407]

A great effort SpaceX! Very inspiring! Looking forward to the next test flight!👍😃💖💖

[@omermagen824]

Really cool to see this after the recent launch, with the water deluge added

[@FDXman65]

NASA is now a bridesmaid

[@chebrneck]

got damn that's a blast

[@smurp_com]

Gives “blowing chunks” a whole new meaning

[@CFLsurfr]

Sarge : You see that ground? Yes sir! Kill it.

[@ASH_EDIT07]

I seems to be going toward jeffry!!💀

[@Servant-of-Christ88]

Good God that thing is impressive

[@stevemorris6270]

Look at the 17 second mark. You can see flames coming out between the starship and first stage! I find it hard to believe no one thought about some kind of blast deflector/ tunnel for 15 million pounds of thrust! 😂

[@archer1133]

The real mistake was only supporting the pad where the engines were instead of the entire thing. Caused a structural failure in one corner of the pad allowing the rest to blow off.

[@bensharpe64]

That’s regular venting being lit up by the flames underneath

[@Donkeymaster9000]

U owe me new speakers, thanks for exploding my set

[@bdw9096]

One day we didn’t have this incredible technology and then the next day we did…

[@lancevoorhees7318]

I was hoping they’d launch it next to my house, give my neighbors a thrill? Lol

[@Matu1]

Huge concrete slab rises up right after it starts moving. This is a miracle it even got away from the launch pad.

[@Allegheny500]

I believe that was ice from the side of the lower stage not concrete.

[@danieldevito6380]

​@@Allegheny500It was concrete. The insane amount of thrust completely destroyed the entire launch pad. After the rocket took off, there was just a huge crater where the launch pad used to be.

[@Allegheny500]

@@danieldevito6380 While the launch did destroy the pad, the shape and thinness of the object as well as the height it appears indicates ice, not concrete.

[@Matu1]

​@@Allegheny500no

[@Cleptro]

God damn, all that debris in the cloud. Yes, Starship looks epic; yes, I'm glad it flew, but holy sh!t. With the size of some of those particles, no wonder the launchpad was destroyed. Jeez.

[@raykonga4924]

Obviously the size of the booster and the number of engines have to be reduce otherwise is not going to work.

[@Cleptro]

@@raykonga4924 Nah, the size and number of engines are fine. But SpaceX will have to add a proper flame trench, and likely a full water-based sound suppression system.

[@woodsmaneh952]

Every time I watch these videos it shocks me more and more. Some of that concrete debris is MASSIVE

[@kriley9386]

Yes! Exactly right. None of the comments mention this. Strange that SpaceX made this beginners mistake.@@Cleptro

[@lingaddoncarlos5447]

Russia be like: I dont see competition on my face SpaceX: 🥱

[@brandonknight6575]

You can see the heat tiles already falling off on the ground. Definetly need to improve that. But my god! What an incredible beast it is!

[@christianaguilar5486]

I feel like they lunched it like that on purpose just to see how much damage it would cause if they use the bare minimum

[@digi3218]

The water deluge system wasnt ready and the concrete in theory should have held up better so they went for it

[@danielboatright8887]

Like a year prior Elon even made a tweet hoping replying on the concrete wasnt a mistake, which makes it eveb funnier.

[@leechowning2712]

Remember, this guy wants to be landing on Mars... he needed to know exactly how much damage this would do to a minimally prepared surface.

[@timjay1859]

that is so awesome! all those raptors really packed a punch. Can't wait for the next test launch.

[@robertnicholls9917]

1-2 months. - Elon Musk, lol. I'll be happy for 1 more test before years end.

[@usdarkejo]

@@robertnicholls9917 They'll probably get 2-3 more in before the end of the year. Next launch will be beginning to mid August. That was confirmed a couple weeks ago.

[@mmb811]

Most impressive, I did not know that large concrete blocks could be propelled that high and far

[@lawrencestrabala6146]

I can’t even imagine the thunder and sound pressure wave of that monster

[@awuma]

It was quite the moistake to have neither a water deluge nor flame deflectors. Even the N-1 had a very elaborate launch pad flame deflector system. No large launcher has gone without one.

[@sootytheteddy]

Without context I could turn this into a missile

[@WendelFeroz]

Isso é tão lindo 😍

[@rova3308]

ICE ; Internal Combustion Engine This Starship : EEE : External Explosion Engine

[@Team_Fortress2]

The sounds in the bathroom after my family has taco bell.

[@BenjySparky]

That was amazingly awesome! Just the sheer power of that rocket just blows my mind! 🤯Peace

[@kolloduke3341]

The most inviromental horror LEAVING our air space ALLEGEDLY 😂

[@youreyeonconstellation1969]

Good thing they gave the nosecone that extra-aerodynamic shape