I was planning on watching this on the river when sailing. Had the view angle and everything all planned out. This really sucks ;(
its not NASA's rocket, its not a missile, its not even a cargo rocket, its a rocket built and launched by orbital sciences carrying their cygnus craft under contract by nasa to resupply the ISS, it wasn't blown up on purpose, and they are already working on reconstructing what went wrong, but orbital science doesn't really have to disclose what happened since it is their rocket
god people are ignorant
[editline]1st November 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=D-Roy;46375787]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.[/QUOTE]
you can compute the maximum distance any debris would fly assuming worst case scenarios, then put the press box a few miles away from it, rockets don't really blow up when they hit the ground, they burst open
The shock wave it sent out is insane. It's interesting to see it from different perspectives.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVraKciwzwQ[/media]
[QUOTE=Makindri;46383930][vid]http://puu.sh/cyQTM/ad052e99ea.webm[/vid][/QUOTE]
Oh this isn't the point were ISIS parody videos stop being funny is it...?
[video=youtube;j4JOjcDFtBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE[/video]
way more dramatic than the one in the 80's
that guy can't operate a camera
[QUOTE=J!NX;46386299][video=youtube;j4JOjcDFtBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE[/video]
way more dramatic than the one in the 80's[/QUOTE]
thats because the one in the OP was recorded by a bystander, and as far as i know, no live failures had ever been broadcasted on live television prior to the Challenger. it was more of a silence of disbelief and being unable to comprehend what just happened than a non-chalant attitude
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