Videos shared on social media showed debris slamming into a van several hundred feet away and striking the nearby beach and the shoreline as if they were a war zone.

SpaceX didn’t want to blow up its launchpad. It may have done just that.

Looks to me like Elon rushed the launch so it would be on 4/20, a joke in his usual juvenile style, and cheaped out on a suitable lauch pad, which caused it to disintegrate, sending concrete and steel debris crashing into his Raptor engines and steering rockets.

All completely as planned, according to a bunch of guys with $8 blue check marks.

That's more than several hundred feet. From the launch pad if that is what you want to call it to the shoreline is a quarter mile. Equal to 1,320 ft. You can see some splashes beyond the breakers.

I was told by people on here with Tesla stock and an $8 sticker that the rocket exploding was actually a good thing. Did they lie to me?

What is left of the launch pad...

Has @elonmusk been sued for environmental damages yet?

Should point out the debris that clearly slammed into the engines that failed.

Where’d ya park the van? Me

Remember, folks: Elmo wants to put you in one of these for 40 minutes flights from NY to Shanghai.