At the bottom of the web page they push another of their stories: “Pope Francis ‘will reveal aliens exist at major interfaith religious festival THIS MONTH’”.
While this would be more intelligent than anything else coming our of Bergoglio’s mouth, it is still ridiculous.
Sniper rifle shot?
Sure, anything is possible, but where’s the evidence? There’s only about seventy bajillion ways a rocket can blow up on the pad under normal conditions - how do you exclude ALL of them?
There are no flying objects in the actual video of the rocket and pad. There is a piece of debris above the rocket in one frame as the explosion has begun if you stop it just right.
Silly story.
There may be some charbroiled evidence. They are pretty good at that.
Blew up real good and the object by the tower was a piece of rocket blasted out. You can see it for a fraction of second after the explosion
Aliens putting the kibosh on the Facebook satellite.
Yeppers! Those birds flying by the Falcon 9 have a grudge against it so they decided to attack! Kinda like when this X-Wing Fighter rocket was shot down by the passing TIE Fighter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgF9hBL-CuA
Nothing to this other than SpaceX learning as they get further into the Launch Industry. Musk and his team do not have a Mission Success Culture. They will learn but their Framework for Mission Success will need to become more robust. Especially if he’s going to be flying astronauts at some point. So now we have 2 failures in less than 14 months?
I applaud them for the incredible accomplishments but they have to get Mission Success as a Number 1 Priority culture. That’s the only way it can work.
Looks like a poor attempt at fakery. Unless the object had a malfunction in its cloaking device and was flying mach 500.
I think anybody that thinks that was an attack spends too much time watching stupid TV and needs to get their heads out of paranoid conspiracy zone. Space is hard, rockets fail.
What I do find odd is that the upper stage exploded instead of the primary. For some reason when the lift vehicle went hot, the second stage exploded.
It’s one thing for one rocket to have a problem with its upper stage, but two? Check it out. The launch was this past Wednesday on Aug 31 the day before the SpaceX Falcon 9 cato.
Chinese officials silent after Long March rocket failure
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/02/chinese-officials-silent-after-long-march-rocket-failure/
Warnings issued to pilots by Chinese authorities indicated the Long March 4C rocket would fly to the south, dropping its first stage stage and payload fairing over central China. Reports from Chinese social media showed parts of the launcher’s first stage and nose cone that fell to the ground in their predicted drop zones.
But the flight apparently never reached orbit.
Western experts suggest something went wrong with the Long March 4C’s upper stage, and the Gaofen 10 satellite did not attain enough speed to enter orbit.
The flame front propagated to the right, then downward on the left.
That is about as good as I can do, (using just my video viewer) and without going to another computer where my video-grab / frame-by-frame video editor is installed...
BTW, I looked closely, and I did not observe any "red dot" -- at least not in the location of the anomaly...
Very difficult without a grassy knoll nearby.