Starship, a powerful rocket was launch-tested by Elon Musk’s Space X team. The goal is for these rockets to take us to Mars and beyond one day. Albeit, still historic, Starship did experience what is being referred to as a rapid unscheduled disassembly.
The phrase describing the explosion has given rise to a slew of funny euphemisms. Feel free to insert your own here.
What I am admittedly readily amused by is the phrase itself and how it appears to capture what is going on all around us across the many facets of our lives. Some may note that Twitter is also experiencing a rapid unscheduled disassembly. The same can be said of decorum, etiquette, and general common sense. The traditional office space and worklife have also been disassembled. Although, many wish to fight that trend. I just don’t see how we totally unwind what many see as an advance in work/life balance. But what about giving people the benefit of the doubt? That’s rapidly disassembled, it appears. It’s accuse and act (harmfully, at times) and then maybe ask questions.
I can go on. Maybe I will later on. But you get the point. Disassembly is everywhere. Including my dog’s toys that go from new to shredded in 30 seconds flat.
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psychologistmimi 
Fascinating observations in your post today! The phrasing reminds me of the “conscious uncoupling” euphemism for the process of divorcing from a few years back.
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Well, what can I say, Mimi? I believe there is hope for the future, and I believe Elon Musk has a purpose for his actions. We’re either too little or too insignificant to be considered.
Have a great day!
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It’s good to have hope for the future!
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“For here am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world
The planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing left to do”
Oh The ‘Space Oddity’ of the Human Condition Not Much Different
Than ‘Oz’ Tin Cans Materially Reduced no Longer With Oil
To Beat A HeART What Courage is THere oF A Lion
When Lies Become the
Standard of Truth
True WHere is
Even the Back
Bone of A Fish
Indeed What Happened
to the Vertebrates When
“ManHood’ Becomes Worms
That No Longer Even Aerate Soils
After Death As Such in Cooperation of Reality
Did i Miss A Character Oh Yes The Scare Crow
of Human Reason Yet You See Without the Oil
For HeART Beats All That’s Left Is Truly
Ignorance In A Tin Can Far Above The
World Even though the Earth
Is Blue The Love is to
LiVE iN Desert
SCaRCiTY Again
Up THeRE or Down
Here Dear Lord Why Go to
A Dead Rock in the Sky When
One May Color it Endlessly in a Poem
Within Reflecting All of Existence Freely And
Not Just Dead Rocks in The Sky in the Void Alone
So
Below
Other Than That
i Won’t Be Purchasing
A Tesla Ever And Ever Since
Elon Musk Took Over Twitter
Poetry Prompts in Twitter
Feeds Have Been Replaced
With Pimps Selling Women
Indeed Same Old Desert Story
Just Another Phallic Symbol Blown in The Sky
Materially Reducing Reality to A Frigging Rock in Space
Give me FLoWeRS
or Give me
Living
Death
FLoWERS Are
Enough to LiVE NeWLY NoW FOR REAL…
Dear Lord So Easy to go to the Moon in ’69
We Haven’t Nearly ‘Had That Spirit Since’
Then it Seems
Go to the
Moon to
Find Out
Where HoMe Is
iN ‘Over View’
THeRE Are So
Many Short-Cuts WiTHiN HeaR…
‘Click Click Click’ Is This Really
‘Kansas’ or Just ‘Dust in the Wind’ Again…
Indeed Then i Left my ‘Golden Slippers’ Under
That House Deep From the South and Escaped
“Devil and the deep blue sea behind me
Vanish in the air you’ll never find me”
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We are fortunate to have people notice and scream about these things – so attention must be paid.
It’s painful – but part of life.
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Indeed!
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According to Planetary.org:
Elon Musk coined the term, “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” as a tongue-in-cheek reference to NASA and other rocket providers’ penchant for using obtuse terminology to describe rocket disasters.
I like the humor of it. When Musk is good he is very good and when he’s bad he’s a complete idiot.
For the Starship launch, anything past the launch tower was considered a victory. Most first launches end in complete disaster. Musk’s first rocket, the Falcon 1, failed 3 times before succeeding.
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Yeah, i think they expected the failure.
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Who pays attention to quality of workmanship? I haven’t kept up with Elon Musk’s Space-X, but “rapid disassembly” seems to be a requirement for many modular structures, like homes, cars and other modern American products. Certainly, the components themselves are made of the lowest cost materials and workmanship.
In my own home projects, I try to do my best work, but I’m often using old tools and scrap materials with which I have little experience, skill, or patience. I certainly wouldn’t want to build a spacecraft or even a ladder.
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Yeah, I’ll take a pass on building anything of worth. I’m beyond clumsy
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When you have inherited your familiy’s hobby tools, and the detritus that accompanies them, you are forced to make decisions about what to do with the stuff. My father’s woodworking and car repair tools, my mother’s genealogical and historical references, my grandmother’s book-binding press, and everybody’s furniture and books, just to name a few. I learned the basics from all, but have had to learn through practice how to use the materials to create projects that worked for my purposes.
I believe each of us benefits by doing what we can with what we have.
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