[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI[/media]
This might not be up for long because afaik they don't want videos out. From what I've heard this just happened a couple hours ago. Don't have many details. Nobody seems to have been hurt.
HOLY SHIT THO
Damn.. That was loud
Damn I was just reading the news about the launch.
To think this would happen hours later.
sounds like someone was about to break down and cry
holy mackeral
is this what a billion dollar mistake looks like
[QUOTE=hunter_killah;46357067]is this what a billion dollar mistake looks like[/QUOTE]
Nah, that's just a quarter-billion dollar mistake there.
Then again, they'll probably have to rebuild a lot of the launchpad. Might be expensive.
Okay my friend said they were taking down videos, but I don't know if that's true. HOLY MAKERAL
did that guy just seriously say "holy mackerel"
Fortunately no lives were lost.
Rocket watchers are eccentric.
Those dudes were a bunch of wussies. Why were they running? They were like 3 miles away...
Wow. Imagine all the mathematics, engineering, resources, time, work, and skill put into that and it explodes. That must be so disappointing.
[QUOTE=arbio22;46358084]Wow. Imagine all the mathematics, engineering, resources, time, work, and skill put into that and it explodes. That must be so disappointing.[/QUOTE]
"Well shit... I'm gonna have a drink. Fuck rockets. Fuck this"
[QUOTE=Mister_Jack;46357131]Okay my friend said they were taking down videos, but I don't know if that's true.[/QUOTE]
If you got links, then I'd be willing to believe that a US government agency is breaking their own law.
[QUOTE=arbio22;46358084]Wow. Imagine all the mathematics, engineering, resources, time, work, and skill put into that and it explodes. That must be so disappointing.[/QUOTE]
We can only hope they learned a lot from this crash. So that they wont repeat the mistakes done.
[URL]http://www.spacenews.com/sites/spacenews.com/files/images/articles/PlanetLabsFlock_PL4X3.jpg[/URL]
All of these died yesterday. It was like a tiny CubeSat genocide.
[quote=news][h=1]Planet Labs Raises $52 Million From Yuri Milner To Build The Biggest (Little) Flock Of Satellites[/h][/quote]
If I was Yuri Milner I would be pretty pissed right now, haha. CubeSats don't usually get launch insurance. This company lost their [I]entire[/I] fleet on this one launch. Christ. To put this in perspective, a Falcon 9 costs $65 million. For the cost of those 28 CubeSats, the guy could have practically bought a personal rocket. Though, to be realistic, most of that money went to development. I would be pretty surprised if the total cost of that hardware was even close to $5 million.
holy mackarel how do the thumbnail tags work on facepunch
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;46357980]Those dudes were a bunch of wussies. Why were they running? They were like 3 miles away...[/QUOTE]
That fireball was so huge that even at that distance, the temperature must've been almost unbearable.
[QUOTE=V12US;46358921]That fireball was so huge that even at that distance, the temperature must've been almost unbearable.[/QUOTE]
basically the energy required to get a rocket in space in one big explosion
I would be so pissed off if I was the one who put the most work into the rocket. Just glad that no one was in it and it was just a rocket. "Well... Shit!"
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;46357980]Those dudes were a bunch of wussies. Why were they running? They were like 3 miles away...[/QUOTE]
Are you serious? Do you not understand explosions and debris? Imagine getting hit by even just a tiny golfball sized chunk of metal coming at you with the force of an explosion that big.
So, question is, do we know why it happened? Have NASA figured out what happened?
[QUOTE=AnonTakesOver;46361679]So, question is, do we know why it happened? Have NASA figured out what happened?[/QUOTE]
Not yet. Judging by previous incidents, they probably won't announce anything for months.
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;46357980]Those dudes were a bunch of wussies. Why were they running? They were like 3 miles away...[/QUOTE]
Shrapnel, you ever heard of it? An explosion that large, and at the height is bound to send shrapnel everywhere.
Haha, I've been to several rocket launches, several times on military bases (significantly closer than the public). If there was a chance that you were going to be hit with debris, they wouldn't let you stand there. I mean they scrubbed the entire launch the day before because some guy in a sailboat some number of miles downrange drifted into the launch path.
[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;46375513]Haha, I've been to several rocket launches, several times on military bases (significantly closer than the public). If there was a chance that you were going to be hit with debris, they wouldn't let you stand there. I mean they scrubbed the entire launch the day before because some guy in a sailboat some number of miles downrange drifted into the launch path.[/QUOTE]
There always remains the chance to be hit by shrapnel at that distance, it's just unlikely. There's a kill radius, hit radius, and what's essentially a safe radius, of which the safe radius is nothing more than "yeah you're almost definitely not gonna get hit from here", and the radius they were at was safe radius.
another perspective here:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarWT7H9t54[/media]
i was lucky enough to be in the US around 1997-1998 to see a launch in person, was a pretty cool thing.
[QUOTE=AnonTakesOver;46361679]So, question is, do we know why it happened? Have NASA figured out what happened?[/QUOTE]
Apparently they crashed it on purpose. The launch failed and they crashed it on the site to prevent it falling into a more populated area since it wasn't going to make it to orbit.
[vid]http://puu.sh/cyQTM/ad052e99ea.webm[/vid]
I giggled at "missile"
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