shackleford posted:

https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1649799938006728706

the milk machine posted:

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1649884329240141828?s=20

They got matt too. elon is truly giving custom titles to his biggest haters lol

Mr Hootington posted:

Cool shirt

DesertIslandHermit posted:

https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1649799172101664781

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/02/26/after-2016-rocket-explosion-elon-musks-spacex-looked-seriously-at-sabotage/ posted:

“We literally thought someone had shot the rocket,” Musk said in an interview last summer at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. “We found things that looked like bullet holes, and we calculated that someone with a high-powered rifle, if they had shot the rocket in the right location, the exact same thing would have happened.”

If someone did shoot the rocket, SpaceX knew it needed to collect whatever evidence it could as fast as possible. “So for sure, we put pressure on the Air Force and the [Federal Aviation Administration] to go collect whatever forensic data was possible,” Shotwell said. “The first thing you do is think it’s some outside force, right. Because we couldn’t figure out how in the world this could have happened.”

Early indications were that something caused an upper-stage helium bottle to explode, and at the SpaceX test site in McGregor, Tex., engineers were trying to replicate the explosion. But “we were having a hard time blowing these bottles up,” she said.

So, instead, they got a rifle, “and we shot it,” Shotwell said. “And the signature on the bottle was just like the signature on the bottle that we recovered. That was an easy test to do. It’s Texas, right, everybody’s got a gun and you can blow stuff up.”

But who would want to?

About two weeks after the explosion, a SpaceX employee suddenly appeared at a Cape Canaveral facility of one of the company’s chief rivals. For years, SpaceX had been battling the United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, over lucrative contracts, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to launch military satellites. […] The SpaceX employee who showed up at ULA’s facility had an odd request: Could he have access to the roof?

The reason, the employee explained, was that SpaceX had still images from a video that appeared to show a shadow, then a bright white spot, coming from the roof. ULA’s building was about a mile away from the launchpad and had a clear line of sight to it.

ULA was incredulous, and refused to let the SpaceX employee into the building. Instead, it called Air Force investigators, who inspected the roof and found nothing amiss.

It took months for SpaceX to complete its investigation into the cause of the explosion. Ultimately, it concluded there was a problem with a pressure vessel in the second-stage liquid oxygen tank. The FAA ruled out sabotage -- by rifle shot or any other means -- as a cause, and granted SpaceX a launch license so that it could return to flight.

shackleford posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ&t=68s

haha back in 2016 a musk rocket exploded on cape kennedy. it's so beautiful

apparently musk thought boeing shot it with a sniper rifle and they hosed around for a few months trying to recreate it until they found the actual problem

the milk machine posted:

it was today that i learned tim sweeney is not also tim schafer

aRudeTeen posted:

Advertisers are returning to twitter:

https://twitter.com/enigmalabs/status/1644403921799237632?s=20

LGD posted:

dril got forcibly blued

https://twitter.com/dril/status/1649865374954061824?s=20

e: got pulled but

Mr Interweb posted:

probably easy mistake to make, but remember that shafer is the good tim

Dr. VooDoo posted:

https://twitter.com/jchybow/status/1649809364306255876?s=20
https://twitter.com/jchybow/status/1649840012106629120?s=20

Man’s getting dunked on so bad in the replies he had to quote tweet himself to get some cope from other check mark suckers

deadwing posted:

i wonder how many tesla engineers elon is going to assign to making dril's check permanent as he outsmarts them at every turn

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

*wills a blue checkmark into existence for everyone posting in this thread*

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1649884329240141828?s=20

They got matt too. elon is truly giving custom titles to his biggest haters lol

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

lol the ending to halloween 6 but instead of the mark of thorn loomis screams in horror and despair as a blue checkmark appears on his arm

Dr. VooDoo posted:

Wait…does Twitter have some kind of refreshing backup tick built into it that makes sure verified accounts remain verified in case there was a hiccup with it perhaps?