>>>>>Oh so close:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2015/20140116-falcon9-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly.html
>>>>>http://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-problem-falcon9-crash-landing-2015-1
>>>>>
>>>>>They claim they know what went wrong, and that they've already fixed it.
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm starting to be impressed by these guys...
>>>>
>>>>Amazing that the landing platform sustained so little damage.....
>>>
>>>From the pics I saw, there isn't much on the platform that could be damaged. Also it seems there wasn't much fuel left in the stage (in a perfect world there would be none) so the explosion wasn't as big as it could have been.
>>>
>>>That said, explosions are funny things - I was taught that the forces generated usually follow the path of greatest resistance, which is a bit counterintuitive.
>>
>>I guess that explains the typical 'safe-blower' scenario in movies where they simply stick a lump of plastic explosive on a big steel door and it blows the door off....
>>
>In movies they area also used to bash a person from top - behind on the skull. The person pass out and stand up again.
>This is wrong. If you pass out on that out you will never stand up, because the skull is broken. If not broken you will not pass out. It needs a sideward / front - upward bash to this effect ...

Thank you. Good to know. I'll bear it in mind the next time I get into an argument with a DBA :-}