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To: DoodleBob
What a great idea... "world), it was seen as a sign of his confidence in the treatment. But he wasn’t the first person to use his family to instill confidence..." Here is another application of that method. Russian rocket program was criticized because its fuel was unstable. So the team leader insisted on sitting in the bleachers to watch the launch to demonstrate that he had confidence that the fuel was safe. In fact, his entire rocket team 'decided' to join him. It was a most excellent showing of confidence in their design... Explosion🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Oh wait. The rocket blew up on launch. (Nedelin catastrophe) The entire design team was killed.... Um, nevermind.
9 posted on 10/16/2020 8:06:39 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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“A short circuit in the replaced main sequencer caused the second-stage engine to fire while being tested before launch. This detonated the first stage fuel tanks directly below, destroying the missile in an enormous explosion. Before seeking refuge, the camera operator remotely activated automatic cameras set around the launching pad that filmed the explosion in detail. People near the rocket were instantly incinerated; those farther away were burned to death or poisoned by the toxic fuel component vapors. Andrei Sakharov described many details: as soon as the engine fired, most of the personnel there ran to the perimeter, but were trapped inside the security fence and then engulfed in the fireball of burning fuel. The explosion incinerated or asphyxiated Nedelin, a top aide, the USSR’s top missile-guidance designer, and over 70 other officers and engineers. Others died later of burns or poisoning.[3][2][4][1] Missile designer Mikhail Yangel and the test range commanding officer survived only because they had left to smoke a cigarette behind a bunker a few hundred metres away, but nonetheless suffered burn injuries.[3][5]”


11 posted on 10/16/2020 8:07:55 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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