Got reminded of Challenger 1986

Amarnath S

Unmanned NASA rocket explodes on takeoff[^]. Was still a college student when the Challenger disaster happened; read about it in the morning newspaper in my city Bangalore in India. Shocked. Had heard of one earlier space disaster - Soyuz 11[^]; but the Challenger event happened "right in front of our eyes". Is it possible to prevent such happenings? Rather, what does it take to prevent them?

dan sh

No.

dan sh

Amarnath S wrote:

what does it take to prevent them?

Rocket science.

Mycroft Holmes

d@nish wrote:

Better Rocket science.

FTFY

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

OriginalGriff

It's a catastrophe! The ISS needs those Maryland Crab Cakes! The good news: it was unmanned. The bad news: what was it carrying that even Nasa say it is "hazardous" and "don't go near it"? I'm guessing radioactives...either that or those crab cakes were well past their "sell-by" date. :laugh:

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LabVIEWstuff

Mycroft Holmes wrote:

Better Rocket science engineering.

FTFFY

GuyThiebaut

Amarnath S wrote:

Is it possible to prevent such happenings? Rather, what does it take to prevent them?

There is one way in which to be sure of this sort of thing never happening again. Never launch a rocket again...

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

Mark_Wallace

Amarnath S wrote:

Is it possible to prevent such happenings?

There are two ways to answer your question: 0: It hasn't happened since, so we can safely assume that the guys who are responsible for such things are doing their jobs better than we can do them from our armchairs. 1: To prevent it happening "right in front of our eyes", we don't have to look. We can spend our time looking at problems that we personally can fix, instead.

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Duncan Edwards Jones

I'd say the hazard is from any Hydrazine[^] that didn't get burnt.

Ingo

This time they just celebrated a birthday from somebody. Yeah, those boys know how to party! :-\

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dan sh

Engineering is science. /get the popcorn. There is a nice action movie on CP Lounge.

chriselst

Well according to at least one* American preacher so far, God blew it up because there are too many gays. So all we need to prevent such things happening again is fewer gays. Although UKIP also blamed the gays for the rains that flooded the UK a year ago. I'm not sure if this means that the gays also get the credit for the unseasonably warm October we're having. If so, could they all gay a little bit harder the rest of this week and we should be able to get BBQ weather for the weekend. *I'm guessing there will be more.

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Corporal Agarn

Why can't I be happy? :-D Four those who are too young to remember, from Wikipedia: The term gay was originally used to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy".

Mark_Wallace

You're absolutely right! Those damned gays! Someone should do something about them! This message was sponsored by the ICan'tSeeFurtherThanTheEndOfMyNose party.

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Member 4194593

"There was a lady, and a lady, gay". Classic folk song. Dave.

charlieg

Thankfully, we don't use Hydrazine any more. Very nasty. Very unstable. Very corrosive. Antares uses RP1 and LOX (yes, I just looked this up this morning, I am not a rocket scientist). RP1 is - get ready - rocket propellant 1 - got to love it. Anyway its like jet fuel on steroids, but much safer than hydrazine. Titan II ICBMs used to use this stuff. One blew up in Arkansas one day - Air Force found the warhead a couple of hundred feet from the silo. Meh, just a 9MT city killer. :)

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I do believe this will out-do Game of Thrones™.

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