Comment 2TRX Holy Crap

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Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft explodes moments after launch

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Holy Crap (Score: 2, Interesting)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-10-29 10:25 (#2TRX)

That is some really impressive video footage. You know something is going to happen as soon as you notice acceleration is decreasing, not increasing. As for the explosion, I had a pilot friend point out, given the volumes and volatility of aircraft fuel, there's going to be an explosion. "Every time you see a plane crash, and there's no explosion, you know the cause of the accident: he ran out of fuel; almost any other kind of problem leads to a crash with an explosion."

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2014-10-29 18:20 Interesting +1 computermachine@pipedot.org

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