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Comment by BenoitP | Hacker News Reader

Scrub reason (from Elon's twitter): "A pressurant valve appears to be frozen, so unless it starts operating soon, no launch today"

T-2: New launch attempt in min 48h

T-8: Launch scrubbed (pressurization issue), still proceeding on some things for rehearsal

T-15: Pressurization issue on stage 1, but the countdown continues. Still one boat to remove from area

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Update: it will be a minimum of 48 hours until they can try again. Maybe the rocket will get high on 4/20 after all.

Elon is now saying there was a frozen valve, which seems fairly tractable.

This would not be out of character for Elon

Please let's not have another boo-vs.-yay $celebrity war. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

in an earlier thread i half joked going to Matamoros and paying a fisherman $50 to take you out to see the launch. just for the record, that boat in the area is not me! ;)

In terms of boats encroaching into the exclusion zone it should be fuck around and find out IMO. Crazy to cancel a huge and expensive launch just because one idiot can't follow the rules.

That doesn’t work though - without consequences you’d have hundreds of idiots wanting to fuck around and find out, with kids on tow, because freedom.

Then launch and issue severe fines to discourage them.

Or just let them. The sea is big, it's not going to hit that many. Not everything needs to be 100% safe. We let people chase storms, or fly wingsuits (1 death per 500 jumps, according to [1]). We also have ways to deal with parents who endanger their children past what we as society consider acceptable.

[1] https://explorersweb.com/wingsuiting-dance-with-death/

SpaceX would still never let it happen due to liability issues.

Thanks for proving the point!

earliest window for a new attempt is 48 hours, not tomorrow.

Saying 48 hours now.

Weather is also poor for the rest of the week so I doubt launch will be within a couple days

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