Once again the leftist propaganda press takes out its knives to stab SpaceX and Musk
Superheavy captured safely yesterday by the chopsticks,
for the third time in four attempts
As should be expected, the destruction of Starship yesterday just before it made orbit on its eighth test flight was immediately used by partisan leftist media outlets to play “Let’s beat up on SpaceX and Elon Musk because he’s a friend of Trump!”
- Politico: FAA grounds traffic at four Florida airports after SpaceX craft breaks apart
- CNN: SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft explodes midflight for a second time, disrupting Florida air traffic
- Washington Post: Another SpaceX test flight ends in flames, with debris grounding planes
- CNBC: FAA briefly halts flights to several Florida airports after SpaceX rocket testing failure
- BBC: SpaceX rocket explodes, raining debris from sky for second time in a row
- San Antonio Express-News: In second-straight test flight failure, SpaceX loses control of Starship
All these outlets decided to emphasize the falling debris and disruption to air traffic, but in doing so they all spun the story in a very dishonest way. First, both SpaceX and the FAA had been prepared for this possibility, and had used well-established procedures — in league with all other involved nations — to respond to the launch failure. The air space was cleared for only about fifteen minutes, as only this Florida Today article noted. Take-off delays at affected airports ranged from minutes to almost an hour, but hardly much different that normal delays seen every day.
Most important, no one was hurt, no planes were damaged, and there were no negative consequences. If anything, yesterday’s Starship flight illustrated the competence shown by SpaceX as it runs a very ambitious and radical development program of the most powerful rocket ever built. For example, why so little mention of the successful catch of Superheavy, something SpaceX has been able to do three times in the first four test flights? That achievement is truly mind-blowing.
The obviousness of these attacks is truly getting tedious. Moreover, why the hostility to one of the most spectacular efforts by an American company? Shouldn’t the American news outlets above be enthused by this effort? Have they become so hateful of their own country in all things, they want it to fail, always?
Sadly, I think we know the answer to that last question. The leftist indoctrination effort that now dominates almost all of America’s universities has produced a generation that does hate America, because they literally know nothing of its history except the distorted lies put forth by these Marxist colleges. They would rather destroy success than have America succeed.
It is both tragic and shameful, and a perfect example of someone cutting off their own nose to spite their face.
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Since failing upward is a Leftist trait, they’re actually cheerleading.
We really do need a sarcasm font.
They all LOVED Elon Musk and everything he was doing . . .
. . . until he made Twitter a platform for free speech.
Now, he is Public Enemy #2 (behind Donald J. Trump, of course).
I particularly notice how many critics think that NASA partially funding the development of Dragon, the vehicle by which dozens of Americans visit the ISS, is “freeloading”.
No, freeloading is when you paid almost twice as much like Boeing was, and deliver no reliable capability at all.
Ray Van Dune: It must also be noted that Starship/Superheavy is being developed with practically no government money. This is an entirely private operation, the way things should always be.
Yes, and of course the SLS has been a money pit and may yet deliver nothing of significance, even though it reuses significant amounts of “proven” technology!
I have no problem with NASA coordinating with scientific institutions in developing major space probes, but developing “production” rockets is industry stifling.
I count the second SuperHeavy as half a success. It wasn’t the booster that had the problem – it landed upright where it was told to – but the chopstick tower.
How does Nancy Pelosi have a net worth of $202 million making $174,000 a year?
Clip from Joe Rogan’s Elon Musk interview the other day:
Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes
“I can’t understand how this one statement alone by Elon Musk wouldn’t immediately trigger DOJ and FBI investigations into Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi”
Joe Rogan “Have a spouse that’s really good at insider trading, like Paul Pelosi”
Elon Musk “It’s a lot more than insider trading. The way they’re acquiring wealth”
Joe Rogan “What other methods?”
Elon Musk “I mean, this is really gonna get me assassinated. It’s like, I’m not lengthening my lifespan by explaining this stuff, to say the least. I mean, I was supposed to go back to DC How am I gonna survive? This focus is gonna kill me for sure. I actually have to be careful that I don’t push too hard on the corruption stuff because it is gonna get me killed.”
11:39 AM · Mar 6, 2025
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1897733730191511901
Villagers React to Starship Flight 7
Feb 4, 2025
https://youtu.be/aM8GILDoyB8
20:30
“…actually, this is the main purpose of tests.”
“Villagers React to Starship Flight 7”
Villagers cowered in fear as molten pieces of a billionaire’s failure rained from the sky. The masses lives were put on hold as air travel was suspended across the region. As if to grind his heel, perpetrator SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk was seen smiling as he announced more Federal layoffs. Musk DOGE’d, as the sky burned.
Sorry, Wayne. I just had a vision of torches and pitchforks.
The animosity towards anything Musk is simple – CORRUPTION! The left is NECK DEEP – some even PENCIL NECK DEEP – in the most massive Corruption the world has ever seen! The amount of STOLEN US TAXPAYERS’ MONEY is – is – I can’t find a word disgusting enough! Mr. Musk has lent his expertise and his KNOWLEDGE to put people in place who, in a very short time, have created ROADMAPS of the FRAUD! The LEFT does not cotton to that since it puts THEIR illicit funding in jeopardy and, HOPEFULLY, their FREEDOM in LEGAL jeopardy! I’ve posted many, many times that the DEMOcrats should be FORCED to change their name to the HYPOCRITE party. Maybe if enough DIRECT criminal fraud can be shown they’ll be known as the INCARCERATED party!
Nancy Pelosi and family–
It’s time they all took a vacation to a labor camp.
Blair-
Hilarious!
“It’s OK if there is a loss but testing means checking all this….”
Babu
(Indian Villager)
Mark Sizer says: “We really do need a sarcasm font”
I’ve been using the off sarcasm tag for years at then end of whatever sarcasm I (try to) write: (/sarc)
Cheers –
“As should be expected, the destruction of Starship yesterday just before it made orbit on its eighth test flight was immediately used by partisan leftist media outlets to play “Let’s beat up on SpaceX and Elon Musk because he’s a friend of Trump!”
I can think of a far worse example of slanted coverage–The New Space blogosphere going after Dan Dumbacher over a rocket that *didn’t* tumble out of control.
Pot, kettle, Mr. Z
pot–kettle
I for one am tired of the Musk haters equating selling a service and delivering it to the government as being funded by the government.
By that logic every company that takes a contract or sells to any government agency as being funded by the government.
I have seen a local government office buy everyone working there an ice cream cone from a local ice cream shop. Would that be “funding” from the government or just buying something from them? How about office paper and staplers?
They have weaponized the word funding. They should use another term like procured.
Funding is a bad word across the board.
Only a couple or three decades back—jobs were touted by most space advocates—-now it is attacked.
I have lots of old pop mech type magazines.
One issue had a focus of an isolated rail-line or other.
In today’s parlance, some cutie-pies would call that a “bridge to nowhere” or some such invective.
Many letters to the mag and the articles themselves swelled with pride as taxpayers beamed about Man’s reach into the wilderness.
What I have been trying to do over these last few years is to get knee-jerk libertarians to see that their own attacks on such programs are as corrosive as the Greens—who would also be aghast at rails in Alaska—or whatever.
Both Rachel Carsons and William Proxmires are stumbling blocks to progress.
By the way how many flights failed for Falcon 9 before they had a completely successful landing from orbital heights?
I’ll worry about Starship then.
If you count parachute attempts….they had six failures before the first landing on land (Dec. 2015).
Another two failures after that before the first barge landing.
Honestly, what they are trying to do now is much harder.