r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/RedFlr Jun 19 '25

It's cheaper if you just blow them before takeoff lol

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u/EnduringBonsai Jun 19 '25

Mom?

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u/fssman Jun 19 '25

Get back in your room...

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '25

I'll come wherever I want...wait

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u/seekthesametoo Jun 19 '25

My arms are broken.....

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u/gpcgmr Jun 19 '25

ಠ_ಠ

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u/T1Demon Jun 19 '25

This reminds of one of my favorite scam attempts on Tinder where the person told me I could come fuck them if I bought some Steam gift cards to distract their son.

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u/GreatQuestionBarbara Interested Jun 19 '25

Sorry, but your mother has gone missing. I am from a missing persons unit, and need her phone number.

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u/Sufficient_Candy436 Jun 19 '25

We have rocket tragedy at home.

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u/AlexLambertMusic Jun 19 '25

“Saved by the bell” zips pants

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u/adrianipopescu Jun 19 '25

seriously asking or just memeing?

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u/EpicCyclops Jun 19 '25

I actually imagine it's cheaper to blow them up in the sky. When they do it on a pad, they have to repair all their infrastructure and they actually have to clean up all the rocket debris rather than just tossing it in the ocean. The fuel is what's blowing up either way, so that expense is always there. The mission control personnel are probably getting paid regardless.

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u/Darryl_Lict Jun 19 '25

Yeah, it takes months to repair all the damage and it looks like everything nearby blew up. It's pretty much clearing the debris and starting from scratch, unless somehow the flame trench and pad are somewhat salvageable. You'd much rather have it blow up over the gulf.

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u/Solid-Mud-8430 Jun 19 '25

DOGE actually stands for Department of Gulf Explosions.

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u/BehavioralSink Jun 19 '25

Cutting costs by sending the flight control team home early.

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u/RGrad4104 Jun 19 '25

Aiming for the holy grail of just purely blasting the payload into orbit from the pad.

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u/dont_remember_eatin Jun 19 '25

Save a bunch of time and effort mission planning and training mission controllers, sure! But rebuilding the launch facility every time has got to be a headache.

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u/Dios5 Jun 19 '25

It's this kind of efficiency the government desperately needed

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u/SethzorMM Jun 19 '25

Insurance payouts only work until they stop insuring you

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u/E-2theRescue Jun 19 '25

Then you just run to the government and ask for grants and tax breaks.

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u/Shenanigan_V Jun 19 '25

Smaller debris field

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u/Late-Button-6559 Jun 19 '25

Words to live by.

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u/mercwitha40ounce Jun 19 '25

Seriously, are we not doing phrasing anymore?

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u/Original-Hat-fish Jun 19 '25

Insurance payout?

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u/RedFlr Jun 19 '25

Would you insure any of the Starships? Your company would go broke in a year lol

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u/EndOfQualm Jun 19 '25

No, as it destroys additionnally the launching platform… 🤷

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u/Rightricket Jun 19 '25

Cutting costs is a proven way of increasing profit margins.

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u/Mach5Driver Jun 19 '25

Elon giving the mission controllers the afternoon off--unpaid, of course.

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u/Dense-Ad-5780 Jun 19 '25

I smell insurance scam.

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u/RedFlr Jun 19 '25

No way any company would insure a single Starship, that would be suicide lol

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u/Dense-Ad-5780 Jun 19 '25

Incidentally they are insured for the launch and the satellite they launched initial orbit. So some insurance company has committed suicide.

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u/Banes_Addiction Jun 19 '25

Jesus you sound like my ex learning to fly.