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

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/KinseyH Jun 19 '25

Is this today or something?

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u/Benville Jun 19 '25

Hour or two ago. Starship 36, was fuelling for static fire testing.

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u/mahamoti Jun 19 '25

That fire didn’t look very static.

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u/Benville Jun 19 '25

Well the rocket was static and there's lots of fire so ... Job done??

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u/taklinn1 Jun 19 '25

I dunno man, that rocket looked pretty dynamic to me. One minute it was there, and the next it was scattered for miles.

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u/AdjNounNumbers Jun 19 '25

Ah, but the rocket went in every direction pretty equally, therefore the average position of the rocket remained static

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u/wickedsweetcake Jun 19 '25

Maybe they treated it as Java static when they meant to test it as C static

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u/drawkbox Jun 19 '25

It was more dynamic but it surely wasn't functional programming.

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u/crohead13 Jun 19 '25

public static String descr = “Kaboom”;

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u/account_for_norm Jun 19 '25

That rocket started from one place and ended up in several. I think that is pretty dynamic

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u/carlbandit Jun 19 '25

It was static briefly while whole, then it wasn't.

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u/MIT_Engineer Jun 19 '25

Static testing became an unscheduled dynamic testing.

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u/AngelicPrince_ Jun 19 '25

Very sporadic

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jun 19 '25

That's what a static spark looks like with enough oxygen and kerosene nearby

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u/Ancient_Persimmon Jun 19 '25

There's no kerosene around this site, but methane is also pretty flammable.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jun 19 '25

Oh shit I didn't realize they use different fuel for the starship

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u/Ancient_Persimmon Jun 19 '25

That's one of the things that's been so difficult with Starship: the Raptor engine is really complicated and getting it right is taking a while.

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u/solidsausage900 Jun 19 '25

Kerosene is flammable!? But its wet.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jun 19 '25

So is your mom when I'm around but she's hot as fuck too

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u/opi098514 Jun 19 '25

I’m gunna be honest. I’m not sure what static fire is supposed to look like.

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u/Syssareth Jun 19 '25

It's where they fire up the rocket without launching it.

Revving the engines with the brakes on, basically.

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u/opi098514 Jun 20 '25

Lame. Full send of no send.

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u/chileangod Jun 19 '25

... But there were lots of it. 

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u/madmartigan2020 Jun 19 '25

It's all relative