Don't forget to tap it while saying it. Otherwise it doesn't work.

Those ratchet straps have the word "Aliexpress" printed on them.

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 It's important to support your national industry !

Straps must have been twisted. 😞

​@@Rob-ky1obno, it needs a hardy slap. A tap is not sufficient enough for the magic to work.

Immediately followed by a GALB (Gravity Assisted Litho Breaking) - and a classic BARP (Bucket Assisted Recovery Procedure) ... 😀

hehehehe.... love it!

Anybody remember the old movie from the 80s, called, "Space Camp"?

@@johnnemeth6913 What's Chinese for 'Jinx' ? Because I'm not sure Jinx sent anyone to space this time...

We darn near had RUUD: Rapid Unscheduled Urban Demolition. But luckily this would be the exception to the RULE.

the better question is "why the fuck didn't the engines turn of"???

"should have ask for more funding. but private investors won't give more. Suck to be a private company"!

Rocket scientist #3: We follow the schematic from spaceX pixel by pixel. Wait... what? The document supposed to be 1000 pages and not 50?

@@berkeliumk I think this is a clear case of "copying the form but missing the substance", in this case the software. Because Falcon 9 is made of tech that the industry has had for decades, just more optimized. The real magic however that makes it a falcon 9 is the software. Remember that the rocket has to come to a complete stop at the exact moment the legs touch the ground, if the timing is of it either hits the ground hard or goes back up (which also ends in it hitting the ground hard). This means it has to make thousands of adjustments to it's landing approach that are unique to every single flight, and it has to do so completely autonomously.

wait, we were ment to clamp it down

... bruh

like ccp cares about people.

Not unprecedented. The Soviets used to test rocket engines in St Petersburg on an island in the river... surrounded by the actual city a few hundred meters away. Only engines, I believe, not large launch vehicles, but still... Quite a good little museum now, though... a variety of Soviet rocket engines on display.

Should tell your people to quit being stupid and quit trying to badly copy everything

Should probably tell your people to quit being stupid and quit badly copying everything the next time your handlers call you from the CCP Intel

Reminds me of the F-16

CCP guy: "SUCEESS!!!"

such extreme pioneers it even launched before they wanted it to!

Why? ​@@TonyChan-eh3nz

Boeing SLS, Starliner listening?

I’d expect nothing else from China

This statement sums it up perfectly.

Don't be so harsh on Blue Origin.

Let's hope they don't copy Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia etc

They'll produce it improved and cheaper soon enough.

Thank you for this!

See! See! The Chinese _are_ copying the US space program! 😘

Technically they did terminate the flight of number 8 by commanding an inflight engine shutdown. I think Viking 10's tail explosion on the launch fixture was one for the oddity books when during the firefighting efforts they equalized a tank by shooting it with a rifle to prevent a catastrophic implosion allowing for recovery of the payload.

That was about 75 years ago.

Americans = NASA? this chinese project is a privately funded company which can disappear tomorrow with investor pull the plug.

I mean, this is the same country who thinks it's okay to drop spent hypergolic stages onto villages.

It's probably a test stand, not a launch site. If the worst you're expecting to deal with is the explosion of a fully-fueled booster - well, it's still reckless, but they probably never expected to fly from there.

one cloud seeding rocket came back down through a concrete ceiling into a guys body making a hole in his head

isn't favorable? are you mentally challenged or you are you a narrowminded ameritard? china is huge. there's tons of free empty space suitable for it in china. just look at a map ffs

You mean their habit of dumping toxic waste where people live gave off a sense of otherwise caring?

Ships in 2 months

It delivers itself..... somewhere.

That made me laugh out loud 😅😂😅😂😅!!!

Only dropped once.

Yes, that is actually embarrassing because Amazon is not capable of doing that.

That would be entirely reasonable… If only the restraints keeping it static weren’t made in China.

I wonder if they knew it was about to explode so they just let it go lol

Why expend time, effort and money on a self-destruct system when a nearby village will do much more cheaply?

I know they didn't say "it's not going anywhere", otherwise it wouldn't have. You MUST say those magical words. 🤔🤔

Honestly, a self-destruct is overkill for a mission like this. Much more reliable to just turn off the engines the instant the rocket is no longer physically attached to the test stand. Of course, they didn't manage that either.

They copied the SpaceX files far too early in Falcon 9 development. 😁

I'm trying to figure the joke, but since SpaceX rockets blew up into pieces over an area where it wouldn't destroy homes, as opposed to Chinese boosters which have fallen to the ground and even killed people or left their homes and land a toxic mess, I'm just not getting the joke since these boosters disassembled stuff on the ground including homes. There are many videos of boosters from Chinese rockets hitting the ground and exploding over rural areas and then they show the aftermath. And these are from ACTIVE programs, not test programs. That's the sad part.

@johndoh5182 Well firstly, it appears the Chinese may have copied the Falcon 9 initial designs a bit too faithfully. The other funny thing us that, if it wasn't for the pesky FAA and other regulatory bodies, SpaceX would have probably blown up or poisoned people on the ground too...

And just like the Falcon, it had some engine rich exhaust..

​@@johndoh5182 One Falcon 9 blew up when it was refueling for a test fire. I think that's the joke

One of the early US Vikings broke free from a static test too, as I recall.

Answer - hilarity ensued. (Unless you live near these clowns)

China is first in many things....paper, print type, gun powder....copying stolen blue prints and failing miserably.

If that rocket had flown like my first model rocket, it would have left the pad, then flown horizontal at full thrust at the launch controller (in my case, me and a lantern battery about 20 feet away). Weird things happen when one fin breaks off right at launch. Our SECOND launch was done with my half-brother's car between us and the launch pad. That one flew perfectly.

Now I wonder what you were wondering _would_ happen... Like... sure it has a couple options when going up, but after that the directions it could go become rather limited.

NANI?!!?

@@Flumphinator 什么！

Don't you mean "We hava rift-off"

@@StonyRC I think they "riffed-off" Space X.

China forgot to copy the hold downs... ^-^

"CHOW-FUN" (spit!)

Lol queue kevin Malone quote

Far Out Space Nuts!!! Us 70s kids get that one!

😂

Wonder if someone yelled "This is going to be loud!"

I'm a small woodworking shop and the competent ish woodworker and I have roughly 40 clamps. I just moved my gigantic Bessie's which I think 6 ft long. For clamping oddly-shaped stuff, I've got two rolls of that rubber tubing the half inch and the big 1-in that I can wrap around to clamp oddly sheep things without marring it

​@@weedmanwestvancouverbc9266 You claim to be a small woodwork shop, but your YT handle indicates a *completely* different profession... 😏😅

@@DUKE_of_RAMBLE Woodman by day, Weedman by night.

@@SuperCatacata Ha!

underrated comment!

The worst part is that SpaceX designs are all open source. They have access to all SpaceX data

Granted if someone asked me to write a manual in Chinese i would probably *not do the best job* myself.

When the manual is written in Mandarin and given to a person who speaks Cantonese or vice versa. I worked in marketing and some brainy executive decided to do an ad campaign targeting the Chinese community. Problem is the ads were in Mandarin running in a Cantonese speaking area. Executive was shown the exit door.

The Party is disappointed with your performance comrade.

And then they take you out back and shoot you 30 times as part of your severance package..

Recruiter: We need a dynamic personality for this job. U: Oh I know how to be dynamic! Everything I do is dynamic!

@@GetInMyMinivan Why my carrer is soaring to new heights?

@@GetInMyMinivan Party there doesn't work like that anymore. It's really more a super "Democrat" party without a Republican Rodeo Clown party to make it look like things are normal.

When you put the engines and launch clamps on the same stage by mistake

​@@dominichines9996 I basically came here to say similar lol "Check yo stagin!" S0 - blow hold-down bolts S1 - ignite engines

​@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEYou got those stages mixed up. You light the engine before you release hold down clamps lest you risk dropping the whole thing. 😅

@@fcgHenden The main point was _"Check yo stagin!",_ and so my example still does a great job of doing that 😁

Where is my Return To VAB button

For real, that's obviously because, well, you won't installed FTS for a stage that wasn't supposed to *actually take flight.*

That shouldn't have made me laugh quite so much as it did LOL

Technically US does the same but their "village" is called "Gaza" at least for 2024

I don't get it. It MISSED the village.

@@IiIytIi 🤣

probably was a little bit more focused on figuring out whether or not he was going to be injured in the blast.

Some people prefer to view the world with their eyes rather than through their phone.

It's quite understandable, imagine you're filming something then unexpected event happened and you want to see it by your eyes instead of by the viewfinder, and lost the object in the film.

He suddenly realized that the ccp would probably not want the crash on the net

Because China state police were closing in, arresting them for filming a secret rocket launch. "But officers, I love the smell of rocket fuel in the morning.. smells like.. authoritarianism."

Temu bolts

Like Boeing getting a new plane to their customers. 😐

@@my3dviews They learn from the best 😅

You mean those 'super hd high quality professional industrial grade bolts' that started to pull the threads as they attempted to torque them.

Well, that's what the safety bailing wire ties are for. Just in case the special high temper +++ATH grade bolts fail. But, for the wire ties, bread ties and hook and loop fastening system to fail, unimaginable!

To be fair, Scott mentioned it's more likely the rocket structure tore. Which meant the clamps were fine...the ROCKET wasn't. Which IS a bit harder to manage right. Because you have to build the thing LIGHT. Not strong. So the fact it failed is a bit more understanding. But why the full fuel tank for a 30s flight? And why so close to people? I don't care how grounded it was supposed to be. That's close enough an explosion could launch shrapnel that could kill. They majorly failed and screwed up in multiple major critical ways. But it doesn't look like it was the clamps...At least directly. Perhaps if the clamps were designed better they wouldn't put as much shear on the rocket for the rocket to then fail.

Safety ain’t quite the emphasis there…its “catch up to the west” as fast as possible

@@MrBoatman46 Exactly. In these autocratic countries, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...

Is this the comments section for autistics who wouldn't recognize a brilliantly adapted classic joke?

​ @ feldamar2 _"why the full fuel tank for a 30s [burn]"_ Additional weight? Testing of full tank under vibrations and what not?

Or Alibaba?

more like flight termination system.

@@ThatOpalGuy Launch inhibitor..... Flight Termination. huh, sounds oddly similar for some reason. Almost like these are inaccurate claims for this stage of testing and they were actually supposed to lock the rocket down to a structured scaffold that holds it in place.

Yeah, they just got a bad spin of the wheel.

@@Mad_Catter_ that's just crazy talk! Everyone knows one just needs to use hook and loop fasteners to hold a rocket to the launchpad supports.

Amazon bolts, made with fresh chineseium

@@whateverwhenever8170The state of the art in beer can alloy technology.

Someone couldn't follow Elon's translated instructions?

​@@whateverwhenever8170 you mean Temu bolts

@@armastatUsing Google Translate doesn’t always convey the correct information 😂

I once was once working on a prototype engineering project for a customer. My team sent them the latest drop of test code, which they loaded on the equipment. In the next weekly call, they started the call by describing they were astounded by it... by how broken it was. Oops!

there’s a thing called ITAR..

​@@somewhere-elseITAR protects against shipping and selling items. Not gonna help when the China patent scrappers are living in the patent off to return home with the info

Not just American, i was at a Chemical process, distillery, and waste management site and had the opportunity to ask the staff some questions on my visit (Sweden), they stated very clearly they keep their work as company secrets and file no patents specifically because they know China will steal it right away.

Pretty sure publishing rocket patents is illegal because it is military technology.

Elon years ago publicly said SpaceX would not do the whole patent thing because of one word: China. He wasn’t afraid of any US company. - Dave Huntsman

Well, the management was objecting to the cost of such static fires and demanded some distance traveled for the expense...

Hold onto your papers 📃 👋🏼

I am not like that. I will state clearly that china is a 'one-copy-country'. you don't like to hear that? I don't care.

@@EditEvidence Well, the rocket may be copied from visuals, but still developed by them since it isn't as if SpaceX is giving the whole blueprints or allow you to buy and study one...

⁠@@EditEvidencewhat about all the US companies copying the falcon 9? You seen the Terran R?

​@@EditEvidence Being from the EU with the not all that innovative Ariane 6, I kinda wish our ESA would have done the same, lol.

@@EditEvidence It´s a phallic object that is supposed to fly. Nobody is reinventing the wheel here, perhaps with the exception of SpaceX and I am quite certain that when the first "car" was invented people were not thinking... I should have mine with 5 wheels instead of 4 so I am better and people don´t think I am copying the other guy. It´s a bit like AK-47 is supposed to be a copy of StG 44 because they look similarly or vz. 58 should be a copy of AK-47 despite having different internal mechanism. Just grow up.

its china

newsflash: China doesn't care about the peasants

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Who’s gonna tell them not to?

Only some innocent people may die. So what?

So which one of you has the small penis?

When I was a kid my parents had several dogs and cats living together. They were the best of friends.

"Fly... not like that."

That's beyond reckless behavior! Hope China could get their own FAA after this ridiculous accident.

Isn't the reverse of a launch failure? You did not want it to fly, but it did.

​@@danuttallrapid unscheduled flight

Personally, I liked the launch last year that went sideways.

But once those clamps failed to hold, then the rocket has to be let leave. Otherwise it would fall down and explode at launch pad and destroy everything. So it looks reasonable up to here. However the auto destruction should have been activated in safe altitude, manually from control room. Certainly they didn't expected it will launch so explosive charges wasn't installed? It might seem funny but from engineering stand point there not much you can do when the rocket flies off during static test. It reminds me grasshopper explosions. However Chinese have some balls to fly these experiments in close urban area 🤟 Looks like China doesn't have Bezos who will sue and slow you down for any bended grass straw.

@richard.20000 there was no FTS since you do not usually install one before any flight operation since it is not needed. Also, China routinely has first stage boosters uncontrollably land near or into populated areas, which has caused casualties. They also have yhe 5B which leaves its entire first stage in orbit to uncontrollably re-enter anywhere on the planet. Having a rocket accidentally flies, while only a few KM from a population center is not going to bother the Chinese gov.

Something got built TOFU, the metals might have been the same quality as what Boeing bought that was CCP counterfeit.. Chinese titanium is actually gold anodized cast aluminum, so maybe those bolts that were specked to hold 10,000 pounds each at 4,000F held 200 pounds and melted at 500F.. This is the same reason engines fall off of passenger jets when they are taking off..

In all likelihood they just forgot to account for the extra thrust from not having a second stage on top. Rookie mistake honestly, but would result in exactly what we see here.

​@@PsychoticWolfiethat is a biG oversight ..but a reasonable possibility too.. 😮

Oh yeah, the CPC is the root cause for all Boeing’s problems, there’s no limit to US “exceptionalism.” 😂

you do know CHinese rockets have the HIGHEST launch success right?

would have made Bhopal look benign

@@recurvestickerdragon Intelsat 708 launch ('96). Chinese rocket went sideways, crashed into nearby village. Hundreds dead. The village no longer exists and has been scrubbed from places like Wikipedia (thanks, CCP), but you can find old news articles talking about it since the Intelsat team was on site for the launch. That launch basically killed export licenses to China singlehandedly and is the reason American companies won't launch Chinese, NASA won't cooperate with CNSA, etc.

Looks like you've had too much to think!!! Don't speak out or question. Closed minds Stop thought crimes!

Save Face > Safety

It wasn't supposed to launch

Virtually everywhere in eastern China is within 20km of a city - 1.5 billion people take up a lot of space. OTOH launching it from western China means it has to overfly those cities anyway. They really needed to be launching from Hainan, not Hunan - but then their recovery barge would have to be in the South China Sea with obvious political difficulties.

Um... Kennedy Space Center is within 20km of a city lol. This looks closer than 20km tho.

The communists don't really give a crap about their citizens. Look at all their test launches over the last 5 years. Lots of launched material landed in high population density areas.

If you say so, I find him rather dull and boring

​@@user-od1fo3lj4q Then why are you here?

@@user-od1fo3lj4q Then WTF are you doing here?

If you can dodge a ball, you can dodge a rocket.

to be fair, I dont think they *intend* to launch rockets from there. i laughed though

Well, there's the US model of small airfield layouts. Where at the end of every runway is a school and a church...

Starship OLM is located only 8km from the closest 2 populated areas. That is literally nothing.

@@spvillano i mean most planes aren’t loaded with hundreds of tons of toxic hypergaulics.

It ain't western media. Lol

“china has launched its first commercial missile”

@@danielxia7708 And like most commercials, it only lasted 30 seconds.

Underrated comment

check yo stagin'

They learned it from NASA.

And why most other countries tend to test their rockets at the ass end of nowhere.

@@sigmasquadleaderReally? Where are NASA’s reusable rockets then? Why does NASA rely on SpaceX to launch astronauts to the international space station? Why didn’t they just build their own rocket to do that? Not saying that NASA couldn’t do it, but SpaceX deserves all the praise and credit for what they are doing.

@@filanfyretracker It's not even that China doesn't have uninhabited areas... They just don't seem to care :D

@@filanfyretracker You mean like SpaceX testing their biggest rocket two kilometres from a village?

It all depends on the internal structure of the tanks you can't fully fuel one section of it and leave the others empty because it won't hold the other section up

@@weedmanwestvancouverbc9266 It depends on the rocket. Some rockets have a rigid enough structure they're not relying on take pressure. I'd imagine that a rocket designed to land would be more rigid.

@@ryelor123 it would be designed to land on completely empty tanks, but not with probably much more than a partial fuel load

And that would help a lot to the Apollo program, which the Russians didn't want at all...

First, the Soviets weren't going to say anything for two important reasons: 1. To be open about any of their failures would, in their eyes, make them look weak to the rest of the world. They wanted to look like a powerhouse to the rest of the world and any failures, even those that were considered learning experiences during testing, could never be seen by the rest of the world. 2. To be open about the failures would also give the United States an advantage. You are likely correct that NASA would likely have evaluated the design and made modifications, but that could mean the United States gets to the Moon sooner. The Soviet government was not going to have that happen if they could help it. Second, comparing on how NASA has treated safety issues during the Shuttle program, I would doubt that anything would change, even if the Soviets were opened about their incident. The United States government were just as hellbent on beating the Soviets to the Moon as the Soviets were to the U.S. They would likely deny that there were any issues with their craft, even go as far as claiming that their Apollo capsule is superior in design over the Soviet's. This would likely still ended up with the on-board fire that killed those three astronauts. NASA may have some of the most skillful engineers and scientists out there and those guys would likely see the flaws in their design if the Soviets were more opened and would go to great lengths to fix it if given an opportunity, but I don't hold the same feeling for NASA's management. History showed time and time again that NASA's management is more concerned about looking good than safety concerns.

@@ki5aok You’re saying contradictory things; that NASA would have acted on any Soviet release of information, or NASA management would have ignored it. I spent 46 years at NASA; started as a GS-3- lower than most secretaries- up thru 9 years as a Senior Executive. If you have any specific questions about the agency, just ask; don’t pontificate. - Dave Huntsman

@@dphuntsman Am I? Wouldn't be the first time I contradicted myself. What sounds logical in my head doesn't always come out on paper that way. Well, I guess my thought goes back to the Challenger incident, where engineers were telling management that it was dangerous to launch with a frozen o-ring, but management pressured Thiokol to give the green light. Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, no more shuttle. Then, four or six launches later (forget how many, but it was not long after the Shuttle launches restarted), a piece of foam insulation hits the leading edge of the wing on Atlantis, causing damage to the wing. The only saving grace was that the foam insulation it an area that housed the communications antenna, which was reinforced. NASA didn't do anything, and in 2003, Columbia was hit with a piece of foam insulation, only this time, it hit an area that wasn't reinforced, causing the loss of Columbia upon re-entry. Maybe NASA wasn't like that in the 60s and 70s and I'm just projecting my bias on those people responsible for getting us to the moon based on more current events. If so, then that''s wrong of me to do, and I apologize.

@@ki5aok It seems to me Apollo 1 was simply a matter of not respecting the difference between pressure and partial pressure. They knew the difference, but they didn't act accordingly. I think they knew that exact fire scenario was a possibility even without knowing the nature of the Soviet accident, but they didn't appreciate how much the risk was made worse by their wiring. I mean, the whole point of pure O2 is to allow breathing at a much lower pressure, allowing a lighter pressure vessel structure, so it's the pressure (& therefore density) of the O2 only that matters. Other gases are irrelevant. Adding N2 or Ar to allow the correct partial pressure of O2 would not have interfered with their testing. It was a stupid risk (in hindsight), but I think they took that risk knowing what could happen.

I think it is a village, look at the style of building

Well, they simply cut corners similar to SpaceX, but the blast deflector held, instead the backup Temubolts failed and the primary hook and loop fasteners failed, resulting in the unintended lock release of the spacecraft. Should've had a third backup of zip ties...

​@@spvillanoAh, that was where they made the mistake... Rookie move using velcro instead of duck tape! 😅 If you're going to use velcro, you've *gotta* supplement it with zipties.

They had another rocket failure, literally landed on villagers homes, burning their homes, killing people and CCP absolutely WILL NOT compensate. In fact if you complain and make a big fuss on it, your social credit score could get low enough that you cant go to school, hold a job, board trains, even leave the country. And that's why North Korea and China are BFF's with Iran too

@@draker769well actually it’s near by a city with population of 800K

Ohhhhhhhhhh...... Love it. ROTF-LOL

It’ll come down when SpaceX deorbit the space station.

Zing!

🤭

Best comment. Hands down.

you can never have too many

Yeah, I think that's an engineering thing, not so much science.

@@beenaplumber8379 Agreed. Mechanical, structural and civil engineering. I don't recall there being a "clamp scientist" course being offered. It just struck me as really funny terminology. 😂 I have designed material storage devices, does that make me a "rack scientist"? lol Going forward, you know I'm going to attach the word "scientist" to every mundane thing I design. I once had a friend who also went to university for engineering. One area of study for him was "computer science". He ended up helping to design an artificial heart among other electro-mechanical devices and some purely electronic ones. He does write code. However, when asked what his job is, he will say he is a Computer Scientist. He is not. He's a skilled and gifted engineer, but he did not invent the transistor. I would like to design a clamp that restrains his ego and put it in one of my storage devices. Perhaps then I could call myself a psychiatric engineer. Such a device would be made entirely out of words. They could be written, spoken or beamed directly into his brain.

@@Greenmachine305 Rack Science sounds like a course I would have taken in college! As a retired (neuro)scientist, I don't think the terminology of scientist vs. engineer means one is more important or more prestigious than the other (unlike Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon). I credit engineers for our space program, not scientists. I don't know what Von Braun called himself, but to me he was an engineer and a visionary (and all that ugly stuff from his earlier career). Most of the knowledge to get us to the moon and beyond was already there. Maybe they needed research in materials science, maybe fuel chemistry (did they already have hypergolic fuels?), but not much else. It was mostly a matter of applying existing knowledge in incredibly clever, complex, and surprisingly robust ways. I can understand the basic principles behind most of the Apollo & Saturn V systems, even its navigation, in broad, general terms, which is what NASA engineers had to start with (plus mad, mega-nerd math skills and the almighty slide-rule), but I wouldn't have had a clue how to turn that knowledge into something as magnificent as an Apollo-Saturn vehicle. That's way above my head. I generally tip my hat to engineers. I could never do their job. It's FAR more complex than science. Scientists are generally into generating, validating, interpreting, and disseminating knowledge and its meaningfulness. (We do experiments, write papers about our experiments, attend research conferences where we drink a lot and talk about our experiments, consult statisticians to help us with the tricky parts of our experiments, and usually teach at some level.) Engineers have to figure out what the hell to do with it all. They're also the ones who often have to tell us what we got wrong. And as a retired scientist, I'm also a nerd with a lot of time on my hands. Sorry for the long post!

@@beenaplumber8379 Thanks for the reply. An interesting read. I'm such a nerd it took me a minute to catch on to what you meant by a college course in "Rack Science". 😂 Are you a Rackologist? Racks aren't gonna study themselves, you know.

His family's going to be like, 'what's this bill for a single bullet?'

Rapid Unscheduled Hop Right Over Henan province. Or, "RUH ROH!" for short.

When there is a technique that works why reinvent the wheel? Totally standard in any industry to look at what works on a competitors product and reproduce it.

SUP? Short, Unscheduled, Parabola.

@@ATH_Berkshire Yep. Elon even said that he's hardly patenting any part of it, and if anyone has the balls and the funds to copy it, have at it!

@@Sableagle heheheheeh love that one.

Bruh, what are you people even on about? This is a private company. Of course they will face failures while trying to master such a complex technology. SpaceX and NASA also experienced a lot of failures while developing rockets...

@@SifisoMoabj I think the point is that the site was surrounded by densely populated areas. NASA and SpaceX have never done that. A test like this should be done in a remote area, even without the launch.

@@beenaplumber8379 that's incorrect.... SpaceX starship launch site in Boca Chica Texas, is located close to populated areas.... Literally there are houses close to the launch site. Also, 6 miles from the site, there is a highly populated area called "port Isabel". A rocket could easily fall in that area if it experienced a similar failure... And in other directions, there are highly populated areas like 7/8 miles from the site... Don't try to claim "but 7 miles is very far" LMFAO. That's literally nothing for a rocket that is falling uncontrollably.... It's absolutely nothing.

@@beenaplumber8379 it all boils down to the anti China narrative. However, I don't think these people understand that being this dramatically negative against anything China does, won't stop China from developing advanced technology. People clowned Chinese EVs in 2008.... Even Elon musk himself. Now, Chinese EVs are literally turning heads around the globe.

@@SifisoMoabj No private company in China sneezes without getting permission from the government. They clearly had permission to build there.

[shakes fist] Damn you intrusive thoughts!

And flight termination

When copying designs, make always sure you got an hold on the according German rocket engineer.

And the location which is away from cities.

@@TheWebstaff Don't need flight termination when the vehicle isn't flying... isn't meant to be flying.

And dont use chinesium for clamp metals

As if SpaceX didn't get any help from NASA

You're kidding right? Who do you think is funding Starship significantly.

There is no real difference between public and private in China. The state has absolute power and can purge anyone at any moment, so all private companies try to pro-actively work towards state policies and national interests. The CEOs essentially are allowed to manage their companies as long as they follow objectives the state sets. So really, everything is Public. It's just that some public enterprises are managed autonomously by businessmen, some are managed by co-operatives, and some are managed by the government directly. If the CCP told Tencent to close all it's games immediately, it would do it without question. Remember that the richest man in China was just made to disappear for months without a trace.

​@@whocares427That's the same in US, the government and national intelligence agencies would be all over a rocket launch and have ultimate control to shut it down. The crackdowns on tech giants was an attempt to pull them inline and control them, the patriots act allows for further monitoring and control, investment from politicians and military industry and tax incentives/tax cuts are all ways the government controls in thing ls like this.

SpaceX wouldn't even exist without NASA funding Falcon 1, not to mention the huge amount of money in development contracts (F9, Dragon, Crew Dragon, HLS and now ISS deorbit) as well as government agency payloads. Obviously they have done exceptionally well, but you just can't develop these kinds of launch vehicles without substantial state backing...

Said NASA before getting the bill for a family's roof and upper floor repairs when a battery shelf from the ISS blew through that roof and upper floor. And SpaceX, before a chunk of their upper stage hit someone's roof in North Carolina and a 90+ pound chunk hit a popular hiking trail on private property in the same state.

That's not my department says wernher von braun. Thanks now I have this in my head for hours 😂

I really need to figure out where the rest of my Tom Lehrer CDs went, so I can rip them...or find them for download somewhere, 'cause this song is not on Revisited, the only CD I've found in my messy house. This song is particularly vicious in the way he went after Werner von Braun...but the truth is, he deserved it. Without him, those rockets might never have crossed the channel.

@@TheEudaemonicPlague yeah but also without him the Americans probably never would have landed on the moon until this day

Man I was gonna say that

Yeah, work out whether they would survive when the enormous tube of fiery liquid came down. I might be a little distracted in these circumstances.

Yes, survive.

😂😂😂

@@robbybobbyhobbies The breaking glass all around might have been a little distracting.