Topic: Yes, It *Is* Rocket Science (Gone Very Wrong) (Read 1302 times)

Barry Hufker · « **on:** September 02, 2008, 12:05:03 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL1xUWgBlFw&eurl=http://g izmodo.com/

A way cool (and extremely expensive) explosion.

Jessica A. Engle · « **Reply #1 on:** September 02, 2008, 12:22:51 PM »

I viewed it without the audio, cause I'm to lazy to get my headphones out right now.

Koyaanisqatsi?

mgod · « **Reply #2 on:** September 02, 2008, 12:26:46 PM »

Maybe this will make you feel better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Larrchild · « **Reply #3 on:** September 02, 2008, 01:18:57 PM »

It doesn't look like the Range Safety Officer blew that one with his button. You can see one of the Solid Rockets not running. Anyway, what a shit-storm of burning metal. jeesh.

CHANCE · « **Reply #4 on:** September 02, 2008, 01:30:01 PM »

That just goes to show you ALWAYS BACK UP PROJECTS

Edvaard · « **Reply #5 on:** September 02, 2008, 03:18:31 PM »

The hell of it is, this occurred on January 17th (1997), 5 1/2 months before the 4th of July.

Alas, even in rocket science the occasional slight miscalculation seems to be inevitable.

Berolzheimer · « **Reply #6 on:** September 02, 2008, 04:55:38 PM »

"Um, we have an anomaly with the delta-2......"

Barry Hufker · « **Reply #7 on:** September 02, 2008, 06:32:01 PM »

The cause was a 17 foot crack in one of the boosters.

Larrchild · « **Reply #8 on:** September 02, 2008, 11:44:37 PM »

Yeah made by Morton Thiokol, the folks who amply illustrated the problem with solids strapped to a giant fuel tank when the fire doesn't just come out of the bottom of them.

Edvaard · « **Reply #9 on:** September 03, 2008, 02:59:39 AM »

Larr,

I feel your anger.

When Cristie McCauliff went down with the ship, we all looked for answers why.

I know that this is not the best answer, and I hate politics, but the bad weather forecast was overcome by considerations for the state of the union address, but, give them a break, this could not have been planned.

If we are talking about such-same bad decisions in WW I or WW II, who's to notice?

But it was not war, and it still hurts me, and hurts all of us, the peuirille politics aside.

TY Ms. McCaulliffe, we still hear you every day.

Devin Knutson · « **Reply #10 on:** September 03, 2008, 03:01:42 AM »

Don't laugh too hard, kids.

That's the technology they're replacing the Shuttle with.

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