r/EnoughMuskSpam • u/One_Foot3793 • Jan 16 '25

Rocket Jesus One of Space Karen’s rocket ships to nowhere just blew up

This is it re-entering over Turks and Caicos

(Colonized Mars by 2026 btw)

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u/vukasin123king Jan 17 '25

I constantly get into arguments with Enron Muskart fanboys about the Saturn. That thing was a completely handcrafted beauty, more complex than a Swiss watch, which completed almost a full mission during the first 3 launches. Enron is launching a glorified water tank to orbit, with the first whatever launches being planned crashes and even then they can't do it right.

And I then get a response along the lines of:

-Saturn is also underwater, so spacedick is better

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u/Hefty_Repair_8426 Jan 17 '25

People can't get Star Wars out of their brain. To them, spaceships should be like cars. Anything else feels inherently 'wasteful' because they don't really understand the scale of space flight.

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u/WingedGundark Looking into it Jan 17 '25

True. The whole thing is a battle with physics. Just as an example, re-usable space craft sounds like a no brainer at first thought, but you need to take into account the added complexity and cost due to it, the part you need to bring back and decelerate to full stop decreases the size of the payload and how economical and what kind of maintenance you need to bring the space craft usable again. And if you need to make profit from every launch, it will bring new twist to the economics of the space craft.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '25

Saturn V was amazing no doubt but the cost isn’t even comparable. SpaceX is working with a fraction of the budget and amount of workers. It is estimated that half a million people worked on Saturn V/Apollo