>>>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...
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>>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. You can, for example, use explosives to fell trees: http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdfpubs/pdf08672325/pdf08672325dpi72.pdf

I was once told by the Ontario Fire Marshall, that there is technically no such thing as an explosion; only rapid burning. Although he did point out that if it was rapid enough that he couldn't outrun it, he'd be willing to accept the use of the word.