If you're wondering why NASA and SpaceX engineers consider blowing up the Starship a "success'", remember, they get paid a billion dollars each time!

You may be somewhat perplexed as to why NASA and SpaceX engineers consider blowing up Elon Musk's Starship over and over again to be a "success" every time. Actually, it's quite simple. They get paid a billion dollars every time to do it! Yes, that's correct, every single Starship launch, no matter how miserably it fails, costs a cool billion. Wow! Wouldn't you be happy if you were being paid a billion dollars just to blow things up? You remember Elon Musk saying how much he liked to blow things up? Well, do you understand why, now? The fact is, it really doesn't matter in the slightest to Elon Musk whether the Starship ever does anything other than blow up, because, as long as he can keep the U.S. government on the hook to pay for this nonsense, he can get rich doing absolutely nothing of any practical value whatsoever. This is kind of analogous to Donald Trump going for decades getting rich by going bankrupt, and billing the internal revenue service for it. Or, for that matter, the hundred billion dollars or so spent in the last seventy years by physicists failing miserably to develop controlled nuclear fusion. Controlled nuclear fusion is always "just around the corner" as a viable technology, it's always just ten or twenty years away. This seems to be the business plan for an awful lot of scientific and technological development lately, doesn't it? It never gets done, but, it's always making "great strides", it's always "almost there". And the smiling scientist and engineer frauds are cashing their checks, the entire time! Yes, Elon Musk delivers. He delivers scams that make money, because, no question, Elon is a terrific salesmen. And, as long as he makes them money, Elon is a God to his engineers and investors.