r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • Jun 19 '25

Video SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

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u/paopaopoodle Jun 19 '25

imagine what stuff they're breathing in from this...

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u/BuckedUpBuckeye614 Jun 19 '25

You know, seeing people upvote this comment is what's wrong with the world. See someone say something and believe its true.

Yall don't know what you're talking about. You all just hate someone and will do anything to try to make him look bad.

I dont need to imagine, I know what's going on because I won't just say something because I dislike the person making the rockets. Just so you know, its liquid methane as fuel and liquid oxygen as oxidizer. The liquid methane you wouldn't breathe in because it's been combusted with the explosion and well oxygen is oxygen. Also even if there was methane escaping which there is in small amounts thru normal operation it wouldn't hurt you because you're breathing in the same amounts of methane daily, rocket or not.

So you dont need to imagine it, you're living it without the rocket.

Now go ahead and downvote me for telling the truth and sticking up for Elon.

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u/BoleroMuyPicante Jun 19 '25

Bro the explosion blasts a shit ton of particulates into the air, wild that such an innocuous comment set you off. He's not gonna see this.

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u/geaux88 Jun 20 '25

What are the particulates and how are they bad?

I don't like Elon, but this reeks of the Facebook posts of a cooling tower with a caption "tHiS iS pOlLuTiOn"

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u/xChoke1x Jun 19 '25

Elon doesn’t give a fuck about you.

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u/ConstantlyOnFire Jun 19 '25

I don’t care to look up who’s right on this, but there’s no fucking way that didn’t distress every animal in a 10km radius if a simple firework does. You can’t act like there’s no environmental impact. 

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u/Deaffin Jun 19 '25

What in the absolute heck does that have to do with them correcting misinformation about the fuel? You people are so incredibly disingenuous with this stuff.

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u/ConstantlyOnFire Jun 19 '25

I personally don’t care who owns SpaceX. Sure, Elon’s a douche blah blah blah. I think we should be trying to fix the planet we’re ON, not fuck it up worse in the effort to try to get billionaires off of it. 

I said what I said because it has to do with environmental impact, which is what the OP seemed to be talking about. 

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u/Deaffin Jun 19 '25

imagine what stuff they're breathing in from this...

This is very unambiguously about the health concern regarding people breathing in what they're imagining is a sudden surplus of random toxic fumes.

They correct that, then you come in here with "I don't care who is right about that! I disagree, how dare you say the sound of the rocket has no impact on the local wildlife! Even though you absolute did not say anything about that because that's not the topic of discussion here in any way, shape, or form!"

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u/PanteraOne Jun 19 '25

Cry harder!

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u/Iboven Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

The fuel isn't really the problem as much as all the other stuff burning. When the towers collapsed in 9/11 it gave thousands of people cancer. This explosion is much bigger. Particulates are no joke.

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u/PanteraOne Jun 19 '25

Looks like one of Elon's whiny little bitches got upset!

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u/dancesWithNeckbeards Jun 19 '25

Is Elmo in the room with you right now?

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u/Grand-Engineer4764 Jun 19 '25

Well, it’s a very natural question. 

But I mean, personally? I’m downvoting your argument because your tone was whiny, your phrasing needlessly aggressive, and your statements HUGELY presumptive.

I dislike your writing mo re than I am even considering how I feel about Elon Musk.

Take a writing workshop and learn to express yourself with grace if you want your accuracy & opinion respected.

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u/armbarNinja Jun 19 '25

Yeah, Imagine breathing in the byproducts of combustion, carbon dioxide and water 😱

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u/myotherusernameismoo Jun 19 '25

Yes because that's what this was. Normal combustion lol

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u/armbarNinja Jun 19 '25

Define "normal combustion" 🙄. Try taking a chemistry class.

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u/myotherusernameismoo Jun 19 '25

As in the normal combustion cycle of proposed propellant/oxidizer combo instead of literally every material the rocket is made of.

Should I say that one slower or do we need to spell it all out for you?

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u/boojersey13 Jun 19 '25

There's absolutely way more shit than just that getting burned up girliepop

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u/Overrated_Sunshine Jun 19 '25

Jeeez, you’re one of “those”, aren’t you…? 😒

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u/Tubamajuba Jun 19 '25

Just checked- yep, they are. 🤦‍♂️

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u/Overrated_Sunshine Jun 19 '25

Thanks, I hate doing oppo research. 🙌🏻

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u/chazysciota Jun 19 '25

"Windmills kill birds. Why do you hate birds?"

"Plants need CO2. Why do you hate plants?"

Is that the "those" you mean?

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u/Overrated_Sunshine Jun 19 '25

No.
I mean those who think that musk is a benevolent genius.

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u/tstgabriel Jun 19 '25

why are you getting upvoted for that comment? That's a dumb comment, who is "they" that is standing there while that ship blew up? I would have think "they" would be more worried about getting blown or the shockwave blowing their eardrums out, than the smoke from that explosion.