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SpaceX’s Starship rocket system reached several milestones in its second test flight before the rocket booster and spacecraft exploded over the Gulf of Mexico.

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[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

And what of worker safety at Space X?

Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds and one death.

It's not the rocket or the engineering I'm concerned about, it's the push to meet deadlines at the expense of safety.

[-] kobra@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You literally said you were concerned for manned flight in your last comment. So originally it was the rocket and engineering you were concerned about.

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I said I was concerned because of the corner cutting, which isn't an engineering problem

[-] kobra@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That might’ve been what you intended but it is not what you said. You didn’t bring that up until your 2nd comment.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You literally said you were concerned for manned flight in your last comment

You're oh so slightly twisting the dude's words. What he said was:

Which is why I'm nervous for when they decide to start doing manned flights.

This could be expressing concern about the flights themselves, or about something that happens around the time the decision to start doing manned flights is taken - like cutting corners that leads to employees getting injured.

Dude even clarified what he meant, and you're like "nope, I won't accept that"?

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