Everything is terrible and so today I offer this moment of happiness:
"That's not good."
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T04:22:58.063Z
Another view:
SpaceX Starship rocket explodesABC: A Spacex Starship rocket being tested in Texas exploded Wednesday night, after the craft "experienced a major anomaly" while on the test stand preparing for the tenth flight test at the firm's Starbase facility.
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) 2025-06-19T09:19:56.328Z
More:
Another angle on tonight's SpaceX explosion for the real sickos
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) 2025-06-19T05:24:32.845Z
A little closer in:
For you weather fans:
SpaceX Starship explosion as captured by the Brownsville weather radar
— Steve Paluch (@brewcitychaser.com) 2025-06-19T05:11:08.157Z
From a narrated online broadcast:
Here’s some eyewitness video:
And there’s an explanation for what happened:
There's not even anything to learn here – it didn't even *get to the part where they tested it*. It's such a bad failure that all you can learn is "how you fucked up so bad in the first place". Oh, and, again, it's just blowing up the whole pad now.
Elon fucked NASA, too:
NASASpaceflight is apparently saying that test articles for the upcoming V3 Starship booster, a new version that's supposed to explode less, was on a test stand at this site and is also probably scrap metal now too. So this not only blew up the one for this month, but a *future* one too.
Sometimes good things do happen.
I’ll leave you with this:
I know he’s cancelled for a very good reason, but in the before times Bill Cosby had a very funny bit about the word “oops” and what it means in various contexts. Applies to this “oops” as well.
I like how the minions described this as “a major anomaly.” That’s apparently Muskese for “rocket done blowed up.” I imagine there’s a pink slip in someone’s next pay envelope for the guy who said, “That’s not good.” Like what are you – some kind of rocket scientist?