Watch This Space X Rocket's Insane Explosion That Was Deemed a Smashing Success Despite The Whole Exploding Into a Billion Pieces Part

Before we get into the meat of the blog, let me just say watching stuff blow up is awesome when it doesn't result in any catastrophe or deaths of any kind. It must be so cool to be as rich as Elon Musk is and be able to blow stuff up for fun while calling it a success. That's living. Okay now to the point of the blog...

The word success gets thrown around a lot these days with reckless abandon. Sports teams all over the place hang banners just for getting to the championship game, even though they end up losing. Aaron Boone was asked if he thought the Yankees 2020 season was a success after losing to the Rays in the ALDS and he didn't think it was. It's sickening. Well, now we've got these nerds at Space X calling this starship prototype rocket launch a smashing success despite this bad boy being blown to kingdom come. Maybe it's because I grew up a Yankees fan and demand perfection, but this my friends is a failure no two ways about it. I mean if we're going to eventually be putting human beings into this starship we've got issues. I'm far from a rocket scientist, but we can't have the starships smashing into the ground like that. Back to the ol' drawing board. 

Now why are the scientists and space people across the board calling this a success? Pretty much everything went to plan except for the landing, which I guess doesn't matter to some people (IT SHOULD). We had a successful launch, a planned free fall, and the re-ignition flip maneuver to get this rocket in position to land at its target. All of that went perfectly to plan, but the whole landing thing resulted in the entire starship exploding in spectacular fashion. If we're calling this a success then anytime I engage with a girl at a bar, hit it off with some good conversation, but fail to leave the bar with her/get her number then I guess I'm calling that a win moving forward too? I get that the missile rocket thing did exactly what you wanted, but we can't be throwing the 'success' word around when the rocket's landing resembles an atomic bomb going off. Fuck I'm going to have space twitter in my DMs all day aren't I? Dammit. 

Imagine being the dude/team that was tasked with the landing part of this mission? Literally everyone else smashed their goals. The people focused on the flip part are popping champagne right now and must feel like they deserve an award of some sort. Then there's the landing fellas who thought they had this in the bag, but ended up holding everyone else back of perfection. Going to be some awkward stares at Space X headquarters tomorrow in the hallways. 

Side note, the fact that we can get missiles/rockets/starships to re-ignite their engines and flip on a dime during a free fall like that is truly unbelievable. That rocket is the size of a 16 story skyscraper and basically everything they made it do was just a theory before yesterday. The landing part seems like an easy fix (I have no idea). 

This footage they got is AWESOME. 

Elon Musk might be the worst guy on Earth in terms of making accurate timelines for his insane projects, but that man is a genius with what he can do with technology. What he does is some real life Tony Stark shit. The end goal here is to put people on Mars and it seems like we're actually getting there. 

Here's the full launch