>>12338405I'm not fucking concern trolling, jesus. I'm saying it's plausible that Raptor burned its guts out due to transient stoichiometric mixture ratios. As for why propellant may be running through the engine 1:20 after shutdown, I don't know, maybe Raptor having blown its turbine out of its ass earlier during the static fire could have hurt other parts of the engine leading to a trickle of liquid methane leaking out later on and igniting? There are plenty of plausible things that could have happened to lead to that.
Again, I'm not concern trolling. This event is going to have a bunch of FUD posted about it for two months until it becomes undeniable that the Starship development program is proceeding just fine. Remember that time they straight up deflagrated a prototype on the pad and people thought we were gonna see program on pause for half a year? SpaceX was able to easily bounce back from that, and that's a way more catastrophic event than this little whoopsie daisy.
