IGNITION….BLASTOFF

WTF? They’re not even safe to park next to?

Bwahahabababa

Leave it to the weekend crew to screw things up. Don’t worry, the regular guys will fix everything on Monday

Im posting as Anon here, just for personal reasons. I post here semi-regularly under an actual screen name, but not for this….A few years back, I had a lady from Space-X with me on a boat offshore during a launch. I was out there to keep people out of the launch zone near the pad, offshore security. It was, of course, during the one that exploded about 20 seconds or so after lift off. The first time they tried re-using a rocket. Had someone’s super expensive satellite on it. We asked her what had happened, and she said nothing, as far as she was aware. We asked if they were doing something new with the booster separation or anything like that, because that didn’t look right, and she no, its the same Falcon-9 as always, this is just the first time we’ve reused a rocket. I said ‘Im pretty sure that thing blew up’. My buddy and I, who were standing behind her, made eye contact and kinda smiled, because we’d seen tons of these things, Atlas-V’s and a few Delta-IVs go off, and had never seen it look like this before. We knew, we were just being polite because she was a nice lady, and had brought us some snacks and space-x ‘swag’ for the boat ride. It was hard to see from the ground, just a long contrail, a puff of dust kinda spreading in a couple directions, and then no more contrail. She’s trying to make phone calls, figure it out, I pulled out my phone and went to fucking Zerohedge, because I know how much they loathe Musk, and sure as shit, they had already posted a video and an article of it, not 2 minutes after it happened. I showed that lady my phone while she’s trying to get a hold of someone, and she looks at it and said “who is this tyler durden guy, and how was it possible for him to post this so fast?” I explained to her that it was just a guy who wants to remain anonymous with his writing and who happens to REALLY hate Elon Musk. ZH had that shit posted faster than this space-x employee could even figure out what had happened. A few minutes later, she’s getting frustrated, and Im like ‘if this is anything like an Air Force launch, the people in that room aren’t going anywhere, or making or answering any phone calls, for a long time, and not until they make their statements’. You don’t want to be in a mission control type room when something like that happens, you aren’t going anywhere for a while. Also, plan on peeing in a cup, just because you were in the room, even if you had nothing to do with the rocket or activating the ‘range safety package’. Again, with Space-X it might be different, but with the .gov birds thats how it goes down. But she still can’t get ahold of anyone, and now I got her reading about it on ZH, and watching the video they posted on my phone. It was a quiet boat ride back.

Rockets always have issues…even the ones that we have been building forever. I am disgusted that MY money is being stolen for some of that work, but at least when a rocket explodes, I am nowhere around, don’t live anywhere near where they are launched, and won’t be onboard any of the fantasy rides.

Now a car is another thing. They have been building cars for well over 100 years now. They still can’t seem to get them all right so that they don’t kill us. Folks who are inventing a new wheel, like Elon, or AI driven vehicles, are going to be out on the road with the rest of us, running over passengers, being unable to handle snow-covered lane lines, ice, or sometimes even bicycles in the roadway.

And as I have said before, I guarantee that legislation has already been drafted that will protect ALL of the “driverless” automakers from any direct liability for deaths, injuries, etc. I suspect it will take a form similar to the fee all vaccine victims must pay as part of the vaccine cost, that will then be put into a special fund, and administered by a special court, so that all of the deaths and misery can be kept out of public view.

I have nothing against innovation or progress. But I do demand that it come on ITS OWN TERMS, paid for by VOLUNTARY investors/contributors, and be accompanied by explicit liability for any harm caused by the product.