No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’

Ooo, me so sad…

Call me old-fashioned (I am a bit) but these effing billionaires burn money and pollute their undeserving little botoxed faces off while there is so much that such money could do to improve conditions here on Earth.

  • No1@aussie.zone
    41·
    10 days ago

    When an expert was contacted for comment about why the rocket exploded, Katy Perry said “Cause, baby, you’re a firework!”

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 days ago

    I don’t think a single poor person would be better off, if no money was spent on spaceflight. In the grand scheme of things, space budgets are hardly even a rounding error.

    • arbilp3@aussie.zoneOP
      6·
      10 days ago

      I see it differently. Even one thousand dollars, let alone 20 billion, which is the ballpark for expenditure on NASA for example, spent wisely, would help disadvantaged people as well as nature. Even though it is a small part of the overall US budget, it’s still a lot of money.

      I am not against funding NASA, not at all, but the billionaires who spend money on rockets for space tourists and the like, annoy me no end.

      • ikt@aussie.zone
        2·
        10 days ago

        I am not against funding NASA, not at all, but the billionaires who spend money on rockets for space tourists and the like, annoy me no end.

        Why? This is probably one of the things I least hate about them, at least they’re advancing humans in a positive way unlike say a superyacht

        • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          Are they though?

          NASA did shit and had to create new clever things for budget reasons. And the end goal was information, understanding, science.

          These rich assholes are basically burning money trying to make Space Yachts.

          • ikt@aussie.zone
            32·
            10 days ago

            So you don’t think much of Starlink? Reusable rockets?

            • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
              3·
              10 days ago

              Sattelite internet sucks.

              For the cost of Starlink we could have run fiber everywhere, twice.

              Plus any money put into Space X enriches Nazi asshoke Elon Musk. Even if Starlink cures cancer its a net loss because he is such a collossal drain on society.

              • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz
                2·
                9 days ago

                Idk about the curing cancer bit but yeah, starlink can fuck all the way off. It would be a great worker-owned resource but it’s just greed for musk et al.

              • ikt@aussie.zone
                12·
                10 days ago

                Sattelote internet sucks.

                Yeah it did, until starlink came along