Posted on 09/02/2016 9:35:43 AM PDT by george76
Uh huh. He can call it what he wants. It doesn’t change the fact it was another screw up.
Space travel is risky business. Elon and the payload owners should have sufficient insurance to cover the losses. Bet it’s expensive though.
side note: My guess is that he was discounting a subsequent apparent explosions caused by the capsule and tanks crashing into the ground amidst the fireballs.
Elon Musk is surviving on pure BS and a pile of money that doesn’t even belong to him... It’s just a matter of time before this snake salesman gets bit.
I’m wondering if there’s some technical distinction between an explosion and a fast fire that has an effect on insurance coverage.
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I think there definitely was an explosion.
But Musk’s statement was in response to somebody asking if a crew could have survived using the Dragon escape system. The way I take it is that a fire preceded the explosion which would have given time for the escape rockets to fire and the crew module to escape.
He’s invested a great deal of taxpayer “subsidies” in stuff.
Know the facts yourself.
... witness all the burning elements raining downward, until they strike bottom, then there’s a big plume which goes stright up right when all the noise hits the mics.
Suuuure, it’ll buff right out.
We have our winner!!!
It sounded like one, too.
Well, he might be technically correct, but it was fast of enough to blow the top section off the rocket which crashes to the ground in a few seconds and causes another big explosion. In his effort to be “correct” he is exposing himself to a lot of ridicule and additional skepticism.
Rangers don’t get lost. They get “terrain bedazzled”.
You’re point was he didn’t have his own money at risk and that’s way off target.
I prefer “misdirected rocket plume”. There’s always a boom, you just want it all to move down and away from the rocket.
Sure...I can buy that. It like C4 which burns at 26,000 feet per second.
A fast fire, that you could feel the concussion from over 2 miles away. I dislike Musk, and he never fails to deliver more BS.
He is a very successful businessman (as long as he has him mouth firmly clamped on a government nipple)
A fast fire/deflagration may have caused a detonation. Clearly there was a shockwave. Maybe it was all of Musk’s shareholder’s heads exploding.
"It's only a fast fire. There is no explosion. The launch is proceeding as planned."
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