>>>>Oh so close:
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>>>>
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.....
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>>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.
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>>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.
Today? No!
see:
http://xkcd.com/Update:
For not today:
http://xkcd.com/1475/
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