I Have No Choice But To Love Elon Musk Releasing A SpaceX Explosion Blooper Reel

Tech Crunch- SpaceX has now managed to land a total of 16 Falcon 9 first stage orbital boosters, and it’s been a while since it lost one in the attempt. But things didn’t always go so smoothly: It took a number of failures, resulting in what are cheekily known in the industry as ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly events’ (aka explosions) for SpaceX to refine its process. Those attempts are now available to recap in full in one convenient fail video, created by SpaceX, which provides an amazing look at the price of progress when it comes to rocket science. We get some never before seen looks at all the ways the Falcon 9 first stage landing process went wrong before it started going so right, both at land and at sea aboard SpaceX’s floating autonomous landing vessels. Elon Musk himself posted this to Instagram and Twitter, as the SpaceX CEO continues to celebrate the failures that lead to eventual success. In space tech, as in other technology sectors, you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette – but in SpaceX’s case, those broken eggs just happen to result in spectacular explosions.

Well shit. That was really good. I have a long history of hating Elon Musk. That’s well known. I think he makes grand promises to sound cool and then nobody pays attention to whether or not he follows though. I think he’s gonna turn heel at any point and enslave the human race for one BILLION dollars. He’s gonna be Dr. Evil. That’s just a fact. It’ll happen eventually. BUT I refuse to hate on self-awareness. That’s what the company I work for was built on. That will make me like you no matter what. Not to mention it’s just a barrel of fun watching rockets crash and explode. It’s awesome. That scratches every action movie itch on my body. I will say that I hate that he put the successful landings at the end. That almost made me hated the whole thing. It needed to be all fails. It kinda felt like the whole point was to show the landings. But the self-awareness was there so props to Elon but also fuck you cause one day you’re gonna turn into a super villain and blow up the world.