How on earth could they skip streaming the final 10 seconds countdown? That's beyond incompetence.

Nobody important enough was in charge of the presentation with full context.

This, of course, is a bad sign about the reliability of the mission. Folks have been raising serious safety red flags.

If the video of the launch goes off that poorly it says things about how in a row their ducks are.

swyx a day ago | parent [-]

or, yknow, focusing on astronaut safety was more important than taking care of how things look on tv

	▲	braingravy a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If you have to make that trade off you’re already in trouble.
	▲	dingaling a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This program has cost nearly $100 billion to date. Yesterday's launch alone accounted for $4.1 billion in direct costs. Saying "it was either this or that" doesn't make sense at these magnitudes. They could have hired a professional aerospace filming team for a ridiculously overpriced $10 million and it would be an _actual_ rounding error.

conorcleary a day ago | parent | prev [-]

queue the new moon hoax theory