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Last week, Elon Musk's new rocket exploded after successfully lifting off from its launchpad. Starship is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. It's a staggering 400 feet long with 16.5 million pounds of thrust. Essentially, it's a skyscraper designed to go into deep space. No intelligent person expects that SpaceX would be able to build Starship and then send it off to Mars on the first try without any issues. Things certainly didn't work that smoothly in the early days of NASA, or even in the later days of NASA. This is what science and discovery are supposed to look like. This is how they work. Innovation is a series of failures, and as long as you learn from them, the process is working exactly as it should. You can't achieve anything worthwhile without taking risks. And if you take risks, you're guaranteed to fail at least some of the time.

But we are surrounded by lots of very unintelligent people who are seemingly proud of their stupidity. And so the rocket's malfunction, which was very much expected and planned for, was met with jeers and mockery from the peanut gallery. There were many snide comments and laughing face emojis. Leftists in particular were delighted declaring that the explosion was some sort of cosmic retribution for Musk's ideological crimes.

This is what separates risk-takers from everybody else: the risk-taker has the courage to fail. So many people in our culture don't understand this point because we live in a world where so much innovation and discovery has already happened. We inherited a world of luxury where everything comes easy and quickly, handed to us on a silver platter. And we assume that it must have always been this way. We don't appreciate the fact that there is a whole history of work and suffering and failure and sweat and tears and blood that is all baked into this cake that we're currently devouring ungratefully. And if somebody comes along and tries to push the boundaries, or tries to do something new, we laugh because it looks absurd to us, because we are the most apathetic and ungrateful generation of human beings to ever exist on the planet.

This isn't just about Elon Musk and the rocket that exploded. I am just tired of the losers who have never done anything, never achieved anything, never even tried to achieve anything, and yet who think that they're in a position to criticize those who are actually doing the work. They are the pathetic, scared little weaklings who sit off to the side offering their useless critiques while contributing nothing of substance to the world. We have so few doers of deeds and so many doers of nothing.

Ironically, the achievers, you know the doers in the past achieved so much that they made it possible for people in our time to do nothing, to achieve nothing, and yet live in comfort. But the sidelines have never been so crowded or so noisy, full of people who are terrified to step foot onto the field but will laugh nonetheless. And a bunch of losers laughing at a guy who literally builds spaceships is just the most absurd and extreme manifestation of this phenomenon.

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Tailgate88 said:

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This is what science and discovery are supposed to look like. This is how they work. Innovation is a series of failures, and as long as you learn from them, the process is working exactly as it should. You can't achieve anything worthwhile without taking risks. And if you take risks, you're guaranteed to fail at least some of the time.

But we are surrounded by lots of very unintelligent people who are seemingly proud of their stupidity. And so the rocket's malfunction, which was very much expected and planned for, was met with jeers and mockery from the peanut gallery. There were many snide comments and laughing face emojis. Leftists in particular were delighted declaring that the explosion was some sort of cosmic retribution for Musk's ideological crimes.

This is what separates risk-takers from everybody else: the risk-taker has the courage to fail. So many people in our culture don't understand this point because we live in a world where so much innovation and discovery has already happened. We inherited a world of luxury where everything comes easy and quickly, handed to us on a silver platter. And we assume that it must have always been this way. We don't appreciate the fact that there is a whole history of work and suffering and failure and sweat and tears and blood that is all baked into this cake that we're currently devouring ungratefully. And if somebody comes along and tries to push the boundaries, or tries to do something new, we laugh because it looks absurd to us, because we are the most apathetic and ungrateful generation of human beings to ever exist on the planet.

This isn't just about Elon Musk and the rocket that exploded. I am just tired of the losers who have never done anything, never achieved anything, never even tried to achieve anything, and yet who think that they're in a position to criticize those who are actually doing the work. They are the pathetic, scared little weaklings who sit off to the side offering their useless critiques while contributing nothing of substance to the world. We have so few doers of deeds and so many doers of nothing.

Ironically, the achievers, you know the doers in the past achieved so much that they made it possible for people in our time to do nothing, to achieve nothing, and yet live in comfort. But the sidelines have never been so crowded or so noisy, full of people who are terrified to step foot onto the field but will laugh nonetheless. And a bunch of losers laughing at a guy who literally builds spaceships is just the most absurd and extreme manifestation of this phenomenon.

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