>>12356161I'd love to hear an actual rocket engineers take on whatever the fuck they trying to achieve down there in Boca Chica. Because as a layman i can't decide wether the way they're doing it is actually brilliant or if it's just plain retarded. The whole thing looks like madness from the outside (and maybe it's realy not that bad as it seems) but on pics you always see shit like:
>handwelded propelant tanks>critical flight hardware lying under the open sky>rocket engines on fork lifts>...etc etc
It all looks so horribly unprofessional. If it wasn't SpaceX i'd think i'd think it's a scam and that these guys will never get anything off the ground. OPs pic is literally just a hand made grain silo with rocket engines attached to it. It's a fake rocket. Not even a prototype of the actual thing, just a mockup for engine and avionics testing. Yet Elon talks like they have already build an actual Starship multiple times which they haven't. They act like their testing devices are the actual thing, which they're not. And self-proclaimed "space nerds" (who are actually just consoomers who got hooked on SpaceX pr, with no clue about the industry and no backround, interest or knowledge about engineering whatsoever for the most part) on social media help propagating this lie and make it seem like a reality.
Like, is SpaceX making any real progress atm, how far has development of the actual Starship even progressed and this point? Are they making
any meaningfull progress with their Starship production system? Looks to me like another "Elon rushing shit with unrealistic timelines, burning cash achieving nothing"-moment. Could end in a potential company threatening PR desaster if Starship fails or they realize in 5 years that they gotta start all over again because they fucked something up at the begining and the public realizes that Elon basically scammed them into believing that a few wobbly steel structures were almost finished Mars rockets.
