It’s been quite a morning for SpaceX, which launched a large unmanned starship on Thursday after delays.
That it launched at all was a big victory despite the fact that it exploded minutes later. But it wasn’t being called an explosion.
No, according to SpaceX it was a “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” which, uh, rapidly became Twitter’s new favorite euphemism to use and my favorite new meme of the day.
So here’s a roundup of some of the best jokes and memes we’ve seen using “rapid unscheduled disassembly” so far:
As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 20, 2023