I see that the latest failure of a SpaceX rocket wasn't that it blew up, it was just a "rapid unscheduled disassembly"
Does anyone speak simple English anymore?
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Simple obfuscation using words which individually don't signal failure. They'll say it's a "learning opportunity". OTOH, if they came out and said, "We blew up another one", people might start asking questions.
I haven't been drinking officer; I was just sampling some nonnonalcoholic beverages.
I’m less concerned with semantics than I am of the fact that there seems to be a dearth of information on just how close the explosion debris came to a passenger aircraft.
Seems like SpaceX needs some adult supervision to avoid catastrophic mistakes
That's a George Carlin line from wayback HBO special
Radical Vertical Impact Simulator
On second thought this is perfectly named.
On second thought this is perfectly named.
that is worse than the abbreviation for "world wide web"!
You mean unlike Boeing who stranded astronauts in space, has had multiple rocket failures and doors coming off airplanes while in flight. You are aware of the fact that Musk’s company is going to rescue those astronauts right?
According to the interwebz, this phrase is likely of military origin, dating back to at least the 60s or 70s. Much like everything else in Elon's orbit, he didn't originate it, he just took credit for it.
You say "stranded" ... we say "unplanned prolonged habitation."
and is Space X going to catch yet another EPA action due to polluting endangered salt marsh where the debris and fuel/ chemicals end up landing? Oh wait EPA being DOGEd by Musk minions..........
I have to wonder what the silence from the FAA regarding this recent rocket explosion is due to. It’s possible the FAA has come out and given a reasonable explanation but if so I haven’t seen it. And, as I understand, the FAA investigation of the Space X rocket explosion before this one isn’t even completed.
It’s part of space exploration, sure. Rockets blowing up comes with the territory. That said, it’s surely not too much to ask that sufficient care be taken so that your rocket doesn’t blow up near a passenger jet.
FAA saying the right things.
www.space.com
FAA investigating SpaceX Starship Flight 8 explosion that disrupted commercial flights
SpaceX's ability to fly Starship again will be based on the result of the FAA's investigation.
SpaceX should only conduct their test flights on Sunday mornings when only the Nuns are flying.
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-flying-nun/1000260770/
https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-flying-nun/1000260770/
And none of them were "near" the explosion.
I wouldn't say I was near a car accident if traffic was stopped on the interstate 2 miles before I got to the accident scene and it added 30 minutes to my trip. Although, I was disrupted.
The FlightAware animation of this area at the time would be interesting to see.
So the video taken from the plane of the debris was not near the explosion? Trying to understand.
I do not know how far way that plane was. One can see a long distance when the sky is clear.
That shaded pie shaped area is approximately a 30 mile radius starts at the surface to unlimited altitude and it is "closed" for 3 hours before and 3.5 after launch. There are other areas on that chart that have warnings as well that are in effect during rocket activity.
Is 30 miles far enough? It would be for me if I had to be in that area.
If a passenger jet was flying directly toward the debris field it would have 2 mins before it arrived there. In the flight deck 2 mins is a lot of time to make a course adjustment.
You gave me the impression that you could interpret the FAA map you posted.
About 20 year ago I got a pilot's certificate... haven't used it since.
LOL… That used to drive me batty back in the 90s when you’d be verbally telling someone a web address and had to pronounce the triple doubleyoo…
Then I heard a British coworker saying it as “dub dub dub” and I just went with that from then on.
People don't die. They are "unalived".
Well, more often than just “die” it’s used in place of the standard transitive verbs for “making someone die” since some social media sites don’t like those words.
As best I understand it anyway, as a social-media-eschewing non-Gen-Z-er.