Exploding Rockets, Exploding Twitter

Or, why Elon Musk can learn from his mistakes at SpaceX, but not at his social network

Clive Thompson

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A Spacex Rocket taking off
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash

You probably saw the dramatic explosion last week of SpaceX’s humungous Starship. It made it 24 miles up, but a few minutes into the flight some of the 33 engines on the Super Heavy rocket failed. It began corkscrewing erratically, and an automated safety…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net