LRT: I can't think of a more techbro mindset than trashing nature reserves with a poorly-tested rocket that blew up, and calling it "entertainment".

And when your biggest competitor launched cleanly to a perfect orbit on first launch literally days earlier, "space iz hard" is a lame excuse. The reality is that the Starship program is very poorly run, embarrassingly so. The fact that they have almost zero employee retention is a huge factor in that.

am imagining a rule that everyone in charge of rocket launches live in the likely debris path

yes, many practical problems even for the most scrupulous, but BETTER THAN THIS

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@clew The rule right now is to make sure the debris path doesn't go where people live.

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