If only they add access to some sort of tool, some sort of machine, that they could use to move a lot of earth from very specific places.

His stubborn, based on “his” intuition that no flame trench was needed, and the resultant failure of his biggest toy are indicators that this thing is a LONG way from flying all the way to space.  If they try to put a flame trench into that sand bar they launch from, they’ll hit water in ten feet.  That means the…

N1 was literally designed with Slide Rules. Today we have server farms with trillions of operations per second performance.

Well it did better than the N1 rocket the Soviets were going to use to get to the moon. The N1 had 30 engines and never got close to even what Starship accomplished on its first failed launch. It blows my mind that a flame trench and water suppression system weren't a part of the launch system from the beginning.  I'm…

Meanwhile, Elon simps are insisting the launch was a success even though, you know, the rocket catastrophically failed and exploded in midair.

This definitely feels like more of a foul-up on Musk’s part:

It didn’t blow up on the launch tower. That was a big win in itself. It survived MaxQ, another big milestone. For a test flight, it did pretty well.

I noticed that it blew up 4 minutes into a 90-minute test flight, yet people are calling it a success for some reason.

“I have no clue why they thought they didnt need it...”

Any data on why the stage separation was unsuccessful? Super cool to see the launch btw and highly recommend seeing it in person.

and especially a serious modification to the ground environment.

Side drift could be intentional to minimize risk of falling back to the launchpad

Why the hell am I surprised you made this into a slideshow. What was I thinking even clicking on it?...

If anyone can get those needed improvements done in the next three years, it would be SpaceX. But it is quite a modification, and especially a serious modification to the ground environment. It might be enough to hit them with another EIS for the earth-work needed, although I’m hopeful it won’t.

I wonder if he’s delusional enough to actually lie in court and get hit with perjury charges.

Lindell, on the other hand, told the outlet “This will be going to court.”

Smell? You should taste them, they’re taste like sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

I wonder if they’ll take $5M in returned MyPillow merchandise in lieu of cash. Pretty sure Mike’s probably got that on hand.

Ah the sweet sweet smell of conservative snowflake tears