Starship blowing up is an absolutely perfectly fine outcome for a test flight. This is what you get from a rapid prototyping engineering process. It’s why SpaceX has become so successful it’s doing multiple times the space launches of the entirety of the competition put together.
I have problems with Elon as an individual, but that rocket launch is an absolute win. They caught the booster for the second time, which is absolutely insane.
Also, that was a very pretty light show as it burned up.
Turks and Caicos holiday makers in the Caribbean got a free fireworks display.
The word you’re looking for is cringe
Cringe is so cringeworthy it’s cringe? Got it.
The truly pathetic thing is that for whatever reason, the gaming community is exactly the sort of community that Musk most desperately craves approval from, so this sort of thing will hit him much more personally than any considered evidence-heavy opinion in media etc.
I’ve seen mid-life crisis guys start to act as if they were 22 again. This is the first time I’ve seen one regress all the way back to an awkward 13. Sheesh.
The cosplay, the tantrums, the wanting to be ‘Alpha’ but just simply not having the personality for it, the please like me…
All of it is kind of sad, on a personal level.
And funny/sad when looking at those who idolise him.
Dangerous on a global level, of course. But it seems like people have figured all of that out now.
I don’t know if it has been noted here, but lately any video i watch on twitter is immediately followed by an elon musk posted video. He is destroying the platform for his own vanity
A while ago he was dragged hard for his Elden Ring build, which was shithouse. His gaming-related antics since then seem to be a reflex based on that.
Looks like Andrew Tate snr
I thought it was Comic Book Guy
The line going out is “from my heart to yours”. The expression in the shot kind of gives the lie to that. He was seeing what would happen. And as soon as he’d done it he had that look of a dorky schoolkid who thinks he just did something cool but wonders if it wasn’t a bit much.
Back atcha Elmo
At very best this is some edgelord ■■■■, allowing twitter trolls to have some wonderful “triggered much?” takes for the next few days.
Someone mentioned on BlueSky tonight that BlueSky now has 27.4 Million users, which is greater than the population of Australia.
Or looking at it another way, the whole country gave Elon the salute for “go forth and multiply” 