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Comment by OrwellianChild | Hacker News Reader

Just popping in to say that it is refreshing to see how open and transparent SpaceX attempts to be with this kind of development... It illustrates the competence with which the company is addressing the rocket failure in terms of diagnosis, rectification, and impacts on their future launch timeline. I'd expect this from an internal memo to affected employees or a private message to SpaceX's clients, but we the public get it too and for free. No expose. Just disclosure.

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What do you mean? The write-up is hardly dispassionate or neutral - "Everything about our technology is great and kept working despite the fact our rocket blew up. We collect so much telemetry! Our engineers work so very hard! An nigh-unbreakable strut somehow broke and our rocket blew up. We will no longer use this nigh-unbreakable strut."

It's great they're publicly releasing their preliminary findings, but they're also practically patting themselves on the back while doing it. It reads more smarmy than refreshing.

A suggestion. Your comment reads as though you wrote your own press release to then take issue with. Mis-quoting them with hyperbole for emphasis is less persuasive than directly addressing what they actually wrote.

Your suggestion reads as though you read your own version of my comment to then be condescending to.

Your replies are really not adding to this discussion. The sarcasm isn't particularly necessary.

There was neither sarcasm nor discussion so I struggle with the meaning (or necessity!) of your reply.

What do you want? Self-flagellation? 20 hail mary's for repentance of their sins? They're being incredibly open and transparent in their investigation, Musk even went out of his way to make a comment about how they've become less vigilant in their approach to reliability than they should be. We should hope that all corporations were as forthright in their investigations of major fuckups. Just look at the average case out there in industry. You have people who are forced into resigning as scapegoats, you have attempts to shift the blame away from institutional or policy problems, and then you frequently have "fixes" which are nothing more than bandaids with no significant sweeping changes to address the underlying root cause of the problem (in this case, SpaceX's reliance on the stated specs of parts from a supplier).

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