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tbh the journalists have been juicing this one highlighting the explosion.

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Easiest newsday in ages :

-Billionaire entrepreneur news? Check.

-Biggest rocket ever news? Check.

-Explosion that makes Michael Bay seem like an amateur? Check.

-Environmental disaster news? Check.

The list could probably go on for a while.

Musk and hype, sure to get clicks. Increased 10 fold for impressive explosions. And it was an impressive explosion.

I just wonder how the public perception, explicitly including on HN, would have been if SLS had blown up. I remember some people calling them out for delaying the initial launch.

Right now, I love seeing two options. Even if NASA cost a gazillion more dollars, we have two mechanics at work : cathedral building (NASA) and Bazaar building (Iterate quick, learn of mistakes)

Personally I think the budget of NASA is inconsequential to say the defense budget. Not sure what the general HN vibe is, but probably mostly leaning towards “waste of my tax dollars / inefficient”

Problem with SLS is politics changed design decisions. There shouldn't be solid fuel boosters on it at all, but NASA was ordered to put them in.

Why?

I don't know exactly in this case, but congressmen have always been making NASA rockets more expensive. They often made it so that at least a part of the rockets were built in their respective states, making things more expensive than needed.

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