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Elon Musk Is Not Taking the Latest Starship Explosion Well

Published on: 2025-06-27 14:12:57

SpaceX's Starship has, once again, exploded — and CEO Elon Musk does not seem to be taking it well at all. After investor and avowed Tesla hater Dan O'Dowd poked fun at the billionaire for setting off a "huge fireworks display for the Caribbean" when Starship's eighth test flight ended in a spectacular explosion, Musk seems to be posting through it. Responding to O'Dowd's post, the multi-hyphenate business owner tagged the "R*tard Finder" account — a profile with an appalling name which claims to blast people users for doing and saying things the poster (and Musk, apparently) disagrees with. While there's nothing particularly surprising about the unelected official trashing one of his biggest detractors, some of Musk's other posts since this latest Starship disaster suggest he may be upset about it, too. In an exchange with fanboy who insisted on defending the honor of the world's richest man by insisting that the Starship explosion was "NOT a failure," Musk took the rare step of a ... Read full article.