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[Jinzo Prime]

One news programme here in the UK announced this with glee and how China might beat the US to the Moon because their recent rocket launched successfully. I'm fucking sick of it.

Yeah, the US helped stymy our own rocket programme decades ago, but I just hate the pettiness and loathing.

The US are operating in space while the UK does piss all. The same people will happily talk about 'us' when it goes well though like with Artemis.

It's funny how countries like the UK and Canada always hate and laugh at us, but we don't really think about them at all.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Yikes.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

White supremacy?

 

[Brucey]

White supremacy?

LDS (Mormon) References, Utah Character in movie "Contact" (1997) and in novel by Carl Sagan

 

[YCoCg]

It's funny how countries like the UK and Canada always hate and laugh at us, but we don't really think about them at all.

It's because your actions always screw things up for us. Our screw ups are contained.

 

[TastyPastry]

remember your carbon footprint and not using plastic straws while billionaire assholes like bezos are allowed to blow up rockets like this

 

[German Shocks]

The cost of progress

 

[RavageX]

1. So anyone can just go fire rockets off?

2. Why don't these fuckers do something worthwhile with their money?

 

[The Fartist]

 

[LyricalShrike]

1. So anyone can just go fire rockets off?

2. Why don't these fuckers do something worthwhile with their money?

1. Only those with approval from the government where they launch. Private spaceflight is tightly integrated with governments.

2. Many people would say finding a way for humanity to leave the confines of earth is the only worthwhile endeavor at this point.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

LDS (Mormon) References, Utah Character in movie "Contact" (1997) and in novel by Carl Sagan

Now, there's a movie I haven't seen in forever. No wonder I didn't know who that was. I was kidding, btw. I don't care about shit like "social constructs"

 

[RJMacready73]

It's funny how countries like the UK and Canada always hate and laugh at us, but we don't really think about them at all.

It's because when your orange leader shits his pants the world has to smell it....

Also lol@one of largest non nuclear explosions Evar... Bitch did we all forget about Brexit?

 

[Goalus]

One news programme here in the UK announced this with glee and how China might beat the US to the Moon because their recent rocket launched successfully. I'm fucking sick of it.

Yeah, the US helped stymy our own rocket programme decades ago, but I just hate the pettiness and loathing.

The US are operating in space while the UK does piss all. The same people will happily talk about 'us' when it goes well though like with Artemis.

Leftist magazines in Germany are exactly the same. Doers vs. Don'ters.

 

[thefool]

Spacex raised the bar so much we expect this to never happen. And tbh this also happened to them but they had more facilities.
Let's see if they recover from this.

 

[poodaddy]

It's funny how countries like the UK and Canada always hate and laugh at us, but we don't really think about them at all.

They're not worth thinking about.

At all.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

 

[P:axMagellanic]

It's funny how countries like the UK and Canada always hate and laugh at us, but we don't really think about them at all.

You're always in our threads?

 

[Dorago]

Blue Origin explodes during a test at Cape Canaveral, no one was hurt but one hell of an explosion

Directed by Michael Bay

What I've dooooone!

 

[Saber]

Well, guess we know now which services gonna get price increases to cover up the costs lol

 

[Insane Metal]

Well... rocket science is not exactly easy.

 

[jason10mm]

remember your carbon footprint and not using plastic straws while billionaire assholes like bezos are allowed to blow up rockets like this

As impressive as that explosion is, I bet the carbon footprint is exceeded by the cars in a fairly small town.

Though this was a methane fuel load, apparently, which does combust with CO2 as a major part of the end reaction, but really, the load released is the same whether it takes off or blows up on the ground, high atmospheric CO2 is probably more harmful anyway.