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   Glen Downton (glendownton@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:29:49 JST Glen Downton

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs That'll buff out ...

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     bigiain (bigiain@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:41:55 JST bigiain

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs “Good news: We have finally perfected reusable rockets!” “Ok, what’s the bad news?” “Well, ummm…”

     (Is that real??? Part of me wants to say “surely that’s some factory on Ukraine, not a SpaceX launch site?”, but another part of me is “Yeah well, of course. Twitter guy runs SpaceX as well, this is kinda obvious given his recent track record…”j

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     Chris Jarvis :battery_full: (jarvisscript@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Apr-2023 10:47:33 JST Chris Jarvis :battery_full:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Did he confuse SpaceX and Boring company? Cause it's believable he did.

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     tard (tard@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 01:26:15 JST tard

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     Does not look like rapid reusability. And it is even more amazing that the rocket even left the pad.

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     Rupert Reynolds (rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 03:11:28 JST Rupert Reynolds

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I was thinking that they must have known it would blow chunks (of concrete) and that some of them would be knocking on the hardware (my pet theory for the engine-rich exhaust and subsequent failures).

     Perhaps it was the cheapest (hah!) way of seeing what might happen during take-off from planet surface with no launch pad?

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     Rupert Reynolds (rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:24:29 JST Rupert Reynolds

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I guess that depends on how dense and numerous the rocks are :-)