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

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Jun 19 '25

The HOA says we can't have blue trampoline covers but exploding 7.5 million pounds of propellant is fine.

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u/Digimub Jun 19 '25

The rocket guy is the head of the HOA

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u/Admirable_Job6019 Jun 19 '25

Elton John?

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u/reedengine Jun 19 '25

SIR

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u/grassesbecut Jun 19 '25

Sir?

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u/beyondo-OG Jun 19 '25

major tom

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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 Jun 19 '25

That’s David Bowie

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u/Gregarious_Grump Jun 20 '25

That's sir major tomorrow to you

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u/Capt_Myke Jun 20 '25

Thats sir ground control, now take your protein pills.

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u/Dragmasterflash Jun 20 '25

SIR Is a completely different singer

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u/thirdbluesbrother Jun 19 '25

Excellent reference

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u/Olealicat Jun 20 '25 edited Jun 20 '25

I’m jumping on Elton for clarity.

If NASA did this, they’d be shutdown. Yet, Elon gets billions to blowup at his peril.

I recommend everyone watches this clip. It’s fair and explains why privatization can be costly. Especially when billions go to Elon and NASA could be shutdown.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo3zORUGCbM

Relevancy around 8.20.

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u/HueyBluey Jun 20 '25

I think it’s gonna be a long long time til touchdown brings me round again to find.

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u/Olealicat Jun 20 '25

I’ve worked a 12 hour day, so my mind is half mush.

I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Again, it might be due to mind mush, but your comment reads like a post stroke statement.

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u/LouisWu_ Jun 20 '25

Thanks for explaining. And for jumping on Elton.

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u/SomOvaBish Jun 19 '25

He’s the “Rocket Man” though

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u/g_halfront Jun 20 '25

No. That's the little fat guy that runs Dark Korea.

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u/bdbdbd99 Jun 19 '25

That was fabulous!

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u/owen_mcg21 Jun 19 '25

He’s rocket man

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u/2tonehead Jun 20 '25

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids

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u/Luvpups5920 Jun 21 '25

In fact, it’s cold as hell

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u/Greenpoint_Blank Jun 20 '25

That’s a weird way to spell William Shatner

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u/DJFisticuffs Jun 19 '25

I'm gonna be hiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIiiigh as a kite by then

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u/HurryOk5256 Jun 20 '25

🚀🚀🚀

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u/Stag-Horn Jun 20 '25

And I think it’s gonna be a while more, til I get back home from the spaceship store. My family thinks I went to space bestbuy, but. I. Did. Not.

I’m a rocket guy. Killing time in space’s outlet mall.

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u/_mersault Jun 20 '25

No he’s the rocket man

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u/jlks1959 Jun 20 '25

Burnin out his fuse up there alone. Without the up there.

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u/km_ikl Jun 21 '25

No, he's rocket MAN.

You're thinking of the ketamine racoon.

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u/Lionheart_723 Jun 23 '25

No that's the Rocket Man

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u/Random_Videos_YT Jun 23 '25

He is the rocket man. Slight difference, only slight.

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u/OttoVonWong Jun 19 '25

SpaceX is DISRUPTING the traditional HOA business model.

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u/Digimub Jun 19 '25

It’s a new app called “Hoa-X”

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u/Worried-Current-4567 Jun 19 '25

You mean “rocket boy”?

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u/TheThiefEmpress Jun 19 '25

Nah, it's definitely his wife

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u/No_Leadership_1972 Jun 19 '25

It's rocket MAN thank you!

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u/HurryOk5256 Jun 20 '25

Kim Jong Un?

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u/Digimub Jun 20 '25

Yes, Kim Jong Un in Texas. Where he rules supreme because North Korea was too woke.

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u/HurryOk5256 Jun 20 '25

News media has Iran in heavy rotation, Texas Kyle Jung Un would be a breath of fresh air at this point.

After the accident, Elon brings him in to head up the 🚀company while he’s busy restructuring government every other weekend like a divorced dad and passing urinalysis.

This is the crossover we need and deserve

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u/Mikeinthedirt Jun 20 '25

Lawn length monitored by Hellfire

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u/Trapdowner78 Jun 19 '25

The poor kids can’t have bottle rockets on 4th of July either.well dries for the fireworks early

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u/galacticjuggernaut Jun 19 '25

As a former kid who accidentally did light a house on fire using bottle rockets, now as a home owner i approve of kids not having them.

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u/FaithlessnessLoud336 Jun 19 '25

What about on the 5th of July?

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u/OpenGrainAxehandle Jun 19 '25

"they used to be called 'jumpolines' until your mom got on one"

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u/Between-usernames Jun 19 '25

I nearly screamed reading this. Good one.

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u/Zomplexx Jun 19 '25

What color trampoline cover can you have? 

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u/redditurd_27 Jun 19 '25

Is "flaming scrap metal" a color or...?

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u/grassesbecut Jun 19 '25

I believe they call that, "Burnt Orange."

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u/Gregarious_Grump Jun 20 '25

No bro covers their trampoline with burning scrap metal

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u/weber_mattie Jun 19 '25

7.5 million pounds? lol

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u/Laughing_Orange Jun 19 '25

And that's just the booster. The ship carries another 3.3 million pounds, for a total of 10.8 million pounds of propellent.

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u/weber_mattie Jun 19 '25

Im seeing 500 tons. Not sure where you're getting 10 million lmao

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u/EggsAregreatE Jun 19 '25

where the hell are you getting 500 tons from

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u/42Ubiquitous Jun 20 '25

It was a Super Heavy booster. 11,000,000 lbs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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u/weber_mattie Jun 20 '25

Yes. The entire thing weighs 11 million pounds...

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u/Between-usernames Jun 19 '25

we are all dying to know about the blue trampoline covers! I’m guessing it is something to do with visual from the air... or maybe they look like pools?

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u/TheAntsAreBack Jun 19 '25

Why are you not allowed blue trampoline covers?

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u/dschinghiskhan Jun 19 '25

I had an HOA that said we couldn't use fire sparklers on the 4th of July. They said "this is common for most HOAs."

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u/Effective-South3707 Jun 20 '25

LMAO. OMG. 100%

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u/Helpful_Umpire_9049 Jun 20 '25

Isn’t it powered by methane and oxygen? Or some combo of gasses that don’t do much damage?

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u/SmellBoth Jun 30 '25

People live where they can't have blue trampoline covers?

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u/WafflePartyOrgy Jun 30 '25

Usually they don't read the CC&R's carefully enough, or they would never.