Why Is SpaceX Cutting Up Tanks?

I explain why SpaceX is getting rid of some very large GSE tanks at Starbase!
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[@michaelotoole1807]

seems like anyone could see that the tanks were in threat of damage.

[@chunfu2]

exactly...Not sure why they went with that idea

[@anthonypelchat]

When they were first installed, there were issues getting the horizontal tanks.

[@geesehoward700]

@@anthonypelchat so the rocket was in the wrong place?

[@anthonypelchat]

@@geesehoward700 No.

[@ashleyobrien4937]

@@geesehoward700 nice one...lol...

[@mikegardner107]

“The workers decided to cut the tanks…” No. No they didn’t. The workers decided to keep their jobs and do as they were told.

[@ke6gwf]

Yes, they did. Workers include the people who make these decisions, because they work for SpaceX... Lol

[@Urlhere]

I'm not a rocket scientist or engineer but even I know you don't store fuel next to a raging inferno.

[@audistik1199]

I still don’t understand why they put the new tanks so near where a starship could fall on them.

[@TheCho22]

“That’s a tomorrow problem.” Probably lol

[@mikegardner107]

For the tanks to be 100% safe they would have to be in a deeply buried concrete bunker several miles away.

[@robnobert]

By the time Starship has launched and come down to crash, these tanks are mostly air by volume and provide cushioning to the Starship, a feature that has won them an 5-star safety rating from the NHTSA.

[@Anonymous8317]

Not to mention that whole area is cleared out by miles if that whole thing exploded there is nobody near it

[@UshankadMenace-ti9xi]

SpaceX is doing their own thing

[@wouldntyouliketoknow9891]

Yep, reminds me of the German army in 1945. One domineering lunatic in charge and all the real professionals know damn well everything he says is a bad idea, but they dont have the balls to tell him or refuse to do it and just go do all the dumb shit anyway.

[@UshankadMenace-ti9xi]

@@wouldntyouliketoknow9891 true

[@anthonypelchat]

@@wouldntyouliketoknow9891 Oh brother. No, that is not the case. They couldn't get the other tanks at the time, so used these. And the engineers have multiple times changed the design even if Elon Musk didn't want it that way. They do so because they have a good reason and HE actually does listen to them.

[@searchwikipediafallacy5567]

Everything is a prototype for them. No product is final for them. What difference does it make if you learn, move fast and provide the best price per ton launched?

[@elbob1491]

​@@UshankadMenace-ti9xi lol yeah not only is there so much proof of this you'd have to be a sycophant to deny it. But elon keeps bragging about how his engineers keep telling him it won't work. I especially like the interview where he said this exact thing about the steel construction. Lol. Selling non space age materials as new ideas. Not the discarded ideas because they are ignorant ones.

[@thatjoeguy7348]

The first time I saw the layout of SpaceX's Launchpad I knew those tanks were too close. I still think they need to build a separate isolated landing tower versus having the OLM in danger of major damage if Starship were to crash. A crash at the OLM stops all launches irregardless of whether they planned on landing the booster, a crash at a landing tower would still give them the option of launches.

[@jarjarbunks2844]

Since they plan to make them rapidly reusable in the future they would have to revert back to this system anyway as moving the boosters and ships after every landing would take hours in between flights. A crash would definitely hinder progress in the short term more than having to move boosters around, but they are in the process of building a second OLM anyway. Hopefully there isn't a crash at the launch mount during testing, but we all know SpaceX's philosophy is crash now, ask questions later so I guess we'll see 😅

[@xploration1437]

Irregardless? 🤦

[@jarjarbunks2844]

@@xploration1437 I mean, irregardless is still technically a word

[@xploration1437]

@@jarjarbunks2844 I know, it’s just funny.

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

"So where should we build these high pressure tanks that store highly flammable fuel? Hey, how about right next to the launchpad?"

[@defaultHandle1110]

Everyone always was a little concerned (in their gut at least), at how close all that stuff was to these test rockets!🚀 💥 and we’ve had a few starships go boom already!!

[@wettale]

I feel like someone could have told them that their tanks would be in a dangerous place being next to prototype rockets

[@amptunes]

Now that's rocket science.

[@MDSBock]

Thats what I said about putting this tank farm so close to his launch pad and once Elon starts catching rockets he should build just a catch tower away from all his expensive fueling equipment and tank farm.

[@alandavis6429]

SpaceX has a bunch of engineers who are educated beyond their intelligence.

[@mariano7699]

Looks like a successful in home sabotage 😮

[@fett4life250]

This is why SpaceX is not in charge of Superchargers

[@kilmarde]

Why didn't they just put a protective housing around the tanks? Like a warehouse or something with fire resistant coatings...

[@yamspaine]

I would use them as shrapnel absorbers...

[@nezaujato]

Bullet tanks is also not good idea. The cold and warm cause a scratch and leak. They will return to vertical, but this time buried 78 percent underground.

[@Eatswell]

"tank farm" "torch party" these are some of my favorite things. Whennnnn Space X..... Okay you finish the song

[@rifqitaqiuddin]

Who would have thonk? I know, it could be budgetary, testing, Scale creep, or just Land limitation. But its been 3 orbital launch test. Not counting many static fires. Everybody has been saying this since the begining.

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

Sparkle wrench is my favorite wrench!

[@beverlychmelik5504]

SpaceX reinventing the wheel as far a launch support goes.

[@PWATR]

but thats about it. SpaceX is such a huge waste of money

[@bazoo513]

I wonder who could have _possibly_ guessed that vertical fuel tanks, built with disregard for fuel tanks regulations, right next to unprotected concrete pad blasted by 33 powerful rocket engines might be a bad idea? Not Musk, apparently...

[@ravshanoday1073]

Could SpaceX dig like, holes for the hotdog tanks or would that make the tanks vibrate and be unstable or something of the sort?

[@M8KES]

It's kind of hilarious that this setup is kind of ridiculous from the beginning. Pretty obvious for a 6 years old.

[@hottub2249]

I don’t understand how they didn’t know that from the jump. Speed of testing, etc is t everything. Pays to take time and think some things through. An ounce of prevention is a pound of cure.

[@anthonypelchat]

While you aren't wrong, they couldn't get the other tanks and so used these at that point.

[@hottub2249]

@@anthonypelchat That makes sense if that was the case as to why them used them in the first place. I just wonder if there's a lack of oversight/decision making somewhere in their chain as they develop this beast of a machine. NASA takes so long, the second and third coming will have come and gone if left to them. However, when they do do something, it tends to work when they finally go live with it.

[@NOM-X]

They cut them in that fashion to on have to lift 70% up, and make it easier for removal. Along with less weight, scrapping, and there is always a reason.

[@paulbarrow2497]

I know more about manufacturing than anyone on earth

[@kevintyrees8756]

If it’s built like the Tesla Truck, look out below

[@ed4141]

That's against Osha sitting on the second rail😅

[@ryelor123]

I'm guessing in the future there's plans to put the tanks underground or inside a concrete bunker.

[@thimitri1]

Those were water tanks!

[@douglascunningham6319]

duh. Burying also good. Or burm with a protective cap.

[@pyotrberia9741]

Sorry, I am not a genius. Why do propellant tanks need to be right next to the rocket launch pad?

[@TheJusnic82]

Why cut them?

[@SPDATA1]

Why!? Because now the know they can't go through the FIRMAMENT. 😊

[@xhames61x]

Elon had a torch party and didn't invite me? SMH (o:

[@anthonygriffin6868]

Bullet tanks?

[@jaywomer2313]

Workers didnt decide anything what so ever

[@hbwblacksmithing]

So they have all those geniuses working with them and they realize having rocket propellant next to the rocket is bad I'm a blacksmith and a welder with no high school diploma I can tell you if there's gas near me when I'm getting ready to weld or ether I move it away because I have the common sense evidently I'm a genius that Sparks and gasoline and or ether next to where I am might be catastrophically explosive might hurt my well-being and the shop that I'm welding in but evidently SpaceX on the other hand you think they'd put it underground you know it's really hard for fire to go underground

[@ejicon3099]

This doesn't explain WHY the tanks are being cut.

[@yankee1376]

Crane is probably not big enough to lift the entire tank at once, or the trucks hauling it out are too short to take the tanks in one piece. Just guessing.

[@ghost307]

As opposed to being abandoned in place? Good point.

[@stevenknox2083]

Exploding is no fun.

[@vetondedushaj699]

God, another Muskquito

[@v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096]

It is really rude to pass your channel off as🔴 live when mostly it 😠shorts. I despise shorts.

[@jackieking1522]

Makes me wonder what else is not thought out. Like many of Eion's ideas.

[@xploration1437]

I’m sorry you have a sad life, but why spread your nastiness to others? Didn’t your mother raise you right? Or are you in a funk? Here’s a hug Jackie.

[@goodwinter6017]

The Mars landing itself is the biggest red flag.

[@xploration1437]

Not thought out? Have you been in a coma?

[@searchwikipediafallacy5567]

A bold person accomplishes much more than a smart person.

[@coreymelanson5139]

Ahhh,whoops.....😮

[@marcusjava9999]

Why do you care? Let them learn. People have to learn somehow. All you want to do is make them look bad for wanting trial and error objects we don’t know much or anything about. So while you sit behind your safe computer and complain, they’re actually making discoveries. Who should I watch more? A pension that complains and whines over everything or actual significant scientific breakthrough.

[@Whataboutit]

Are you kidding me? Go look up WAI and take a look at our content! ❤️

[@NOM-X]

*only

[@elbob1491]

Wow the thing everyone predicted would happen if you didnt have a flame trench happened. Im shocked well not that shocked. Almost like elon has no idea what he is doing. Maybe the tanks are just a metaphor of his wateful useless bragging and bravado with nothing to show for it. Sad

[@ioanbota9397]

I like

[@JurassicJenkins]

Elon, “I know more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet”. It’s my tank farm, in fact I invented the tank farm, the wheel, and everything in between 🚀

[@Bat_Lion]

Second pin me

[@UshankadMenace-ti9xi]

Naur

[@xploration1437]

He doesn’t pin babies.

[@5cloudwalker]

duh

[@vesawuoristo4162]

Sheesh , rocketry for dummies

[@michaelpanico9398]

No sh*t Sherlock.

[@SwifeysliceyYT]

First pin me

[@leschortos9196]

Space x does a lot of dumb things....

[@reinhartvonzschock357]

Who cares

[@Greatestswordsman69]

I bet ur miserable in life

[@NexusVR_heinzbeanz]

About what

[@RocketPal]

I do

[@haehaehaehaehohohoho]

I don't know maybe the millions of space fanatics out there

[@user-cx8xt1sf6l]

Pretty much anyone that's interested in space travel and all that SpaceX continues to achieve !! Falcon 9 rockets taking payload after payload into orbit ...(including Starlink internet satellites) making KZbin etc accessible in more places than ever before !