• hybridep@lemmy.wtf
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    8 hours ago

    They’re simultaneously testing hundreds of little to big changes to the vehicles with every launch. Stuff will go wrong along the way.

    If that results in their rockets exploding, perhaps they should not be allowed to do this? That’s not how science is performed.

    Exploding rockets are not exactly friendly to nature or people.

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      5 hours ago

      That’s quite literally how it’s performed. You make a hypothesis, then you test it. If it fails, you alter the hypothesis and try again. A single rocket exploding once every couple months is absolutely nothing to the planet compared to all the other activities humans do.

      They aren’t just randomly lobbing these into the sky over populated areas (like China likes to do). The paths they follow are very much planned to account for accidents. That’s why they launch them over oceans. And they will deliberate blow them up using what’s called a “flight termination system” if it looks like things will get hairy.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s not how science is performed

      Starship is not a science project. No scientific breakthroughs are made or expected. It is an engineering project. And this is exactly how that is performed.

      Also, how many people crashed how many planes before the Wright brothers managed to achieve powered flight ?