Genius takes flight
hey we’re gonna get a lot of great data from all the crashes
Hey now, rockets are hard.
(Elon tweeted that in case you didn’t know)
As opposed to air traffic control which is notoriously easy /s
Fuck Elon Musk, Fuck Privatized Flight Control, Fuck the entire Trump Admin
But in all fairness, they’re intentionally trying to build rockets with cheaper materials, them blowing up is expected for a very long time going forward, and is definitely worth it in the long run. If somebody like Blue Origin were in charge, the fucking Natural Gas rocket company, that would be much worse.
Trump appointed Bridenstone his first term. There was an explicit goal of privatizing space exploration and moving programs from in-house NASA (“failure is not an option”) to the wonders of letting Musk and Bezos light our tax dollars on fire.
If Trump keeps this shit up I might have to stop blaming everything bad on Ronald Reagan, soon.
the fucking Natural Gas rocket company
What does this mean? Starship uses methane too, you know?
SpaceX uses natural gas on anything equipped with a Raptor engine, this is true, but it wasn’t the company’s primary accomplishment or field of research like with Blue Origin.
It looks like starting with BE-7 Blue Origin started using Hydrogen and are now researching potential nuclear fuel options, I hadn’t even heard of these engines before today, it looks like they’ve never been used outside of testing phase, so I suppose I might have been overly critical.
So what were you trying to say when you said “fucking natural gas rocket engine company?”
If you read my comment you will see that Blue Origin has primarily developed and sold Natural Gas rocket engines. Blue Origin is the Jeff Bezos owned Fucking Natural Gas Rocket Engine Company. What part about this is unclear to you?
The part where your not calling Elon Musk’s fucking natural gas rocket engine company a Fucking Natural Gas Rocket Engine Company
SpaceX also had the Merlin, Kestrel, and Falcon series which were LOX/RP-1 fueled and they also had the Draco series which were Hydrazine fuel.
Fuck both of them, but Blue Origin is most well known for their Natural Gas rocketry.
Importantly they use methane because you can generate methane on Mars(especially if you bring some spare hydrogen).
They say this a lot, so I expect they have some machinery running to demonstrate the technology here on earth? We have plenty of hydrogen here after all.
Isn’t one of the other options a company that left 2 people in space?
