Elon Musk ‘Blew a Hole in the Atmosphere’ – HotAir

As many of you likely recall, on November 18 of last year, Elon Musk launched his new Starship rocket from Boca Chica, Texas. The rocket is intended to carry human beings to the moon and, eventually, Mars. The size of this project is both literally and figuratively staggering. Starship was the biggest rocket ever put into the air. Being a prototype, the flight did not wind up going as planned. The first stage of the rocket was supposed to return to Earth and land safely so that it could be reused, but it exploded shortly after separating from the second stage. A short time later, the second stage triggered a self-destruct sequence and it blew up also. The explosions were every bit as massive as the rocket stages themselves. Now, some of the researchers at Nature Publishing Group have finished analyzing the data from the doomed launch and concluded that Musk managed to blow a “hole”…