Posted on 09/02/2016 9:35:43 AM PDT by george76
Personally, I think was a "Darwin", but since the warning sticker was too small to be obvious, it's actually the warning sticker's fault.
The guy filling the tank was also talking on his cellphone at the same time and BOOM!
yes. This seems instant from a human perspective, but it really a fast fire, not an explosion. Dragon would have been fine.
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That was my first question. Could a crew have survived with the escape system?
Anybody not uninjured in this really fast fire?
Meanwhile, Teslas continue to experience ‘slow fires’.
It was a fast fire until it blew up.
Technically, he's correct. The power of an explosive is rated by how fast it burns, in feet per second.
The higher the number of feet per second of burn, the more powerful the explosion is.
For all the ignorant mockery created by focusing 100% on a tabloidy headline and editing the news story:
QUESTION: @elonmusk Would the Dragon escape pod have survived this event?
REPLY: Yes...This seems instant from a human perspective, but it really a fast fire, not an explosion. Dragon would have been fine.
It blowed up real good.
Pay no attention to the giant “boom” sound in the video of the “Fast fire” or the fireball which instantly incinerates the rocket body.
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It sounded like a shock wave to me. However, looking at the video it does appear that it took a few seconds for the payload to fall to the ground. I think the point Musk is trying to make is that a crew could have survived.
I also noticed that the propellant tanks on the ground, the lightning towers, and light poles with lights still on all survived. There were also birds flying around in the area.
There’s video and a lot of sensors recording data. Musk understands the engineering side of the business, so I’d believe him until there’s evidence to the contrary.
just a temporarily exuberant ignition...
Did he explain how his stocks crashed... Oh, I’m sorry... Engaged in a controlled descent ?
And not a MERE technicality, but an essential one:
An explosion would have killed the crew; a “fast fire” would have ejected the crew safely.
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Match meet tinderbox!
He is technically correct. Much like the fuel/air mixture in your car experiences a fast burn, and not an explosion. And those burn occur many times per second.
But he got more taxpayer money too.
He’s real good at funding stuff on our dime, never truly risking his own money.
And for that, he’s hailed as a genius.
Bingo...correct! As any mining engineer knows, dynamite burns at around 20,000 feet per second.
As Mr. Burns would say, “It is NOT a ‘meltdown’! It is an ‘unrequested fission surplus’.”
Ah, yes euphemisms. I love the word “excursion”, as in “the nuclear reactor didn’t nearly destroy the entire galaxy, it just had an excursion.” I note that gunpowder doesn’t explode either, it just burns. The difference to the guy watching the ammo dump go up like a Chinese New Year is academic.
He’s real good at funding stuff on our dime, never truly risking his own money.
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He’s invested a tremendous amount of his own many in his companies. Know the facts.
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