[AR] Re: SpaceX

  • From: qbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 02:33:47 -0600

Actually here's a better one, if you watch it frame by frame there is a (what I guess to be a bird) from right to left and the explosion happens just as the bird is aligned with the nose. If that bird pooped it may have set off the LOX boil off resulting in the explosion. Or maybe it's a small drone which drops some fuel oil. into the boil off.

See pictures above posted by myself dated from Thru, 01 EP 2016 14:40:58 -0600


Robert

At 01:50 AM 9/3/2016, you wrote:

Michael Holt wrote on 020916:

> Here's another line of thinking, from an engineer - historian, and one
which I cannot endorse.  It's interesting to know that someone is thinking
this way:

http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=33030

Rockets standing on pads are vulnerable. A .50 long range sniper rifle hit
did cross many minds I take it. Such bullets can be tracked by radar but
alas, then it's too late.
I suppose the range is well guarded though.

jd


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