"Well Shit"

"PatBateman" (PatBateman)
09/01/2016 at 09:46 • Filed to: Bad Luck Elon

Elon’s going to have a shitty day. How the hell does a rocket explode several hours BEFORE liftoff?!

SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral hours before launch

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Says how in the article. They were doing test fires.

. . > PatBateman
09/01/2016 at 09:49

How the hell does a rocket explode several hours BEFORE liftoff?!

Kaboom?

ttyymmnn > PatBateman
09/01/2016 at 09:51

Sounds like my sex life.

PatBateman > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
09/01/2016 at 09:56

You expect me to read an article?!

PatBateman > . .
09/01/2016 at 09:57

Correct.

PatBateman > ttyymmnn
09/01/2016 at 09:57

HEYOOOOOOO!!!!

crowmolly > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
09/01/2016 at 10:03

They tested, there was a fire. Mission accomplished.

BigBlock440 > PatBateman
09/01/2016 at 10:23

Hours? I thought it was days and it was supposed to launch Saturday?

A good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode.

-Astronautics , issue 38, October 1937.

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Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.

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There are a thousand things that can happen when you go light a rocket engine, and only one of them is good.

— Tom Mueller, SpaceX propulsion chief, Air and Space magazine article , January 2012

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Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.

— Richard Branson, tweet following the Virgin Galactic SpaceShip Two crash. 31 October 2014.

PatBateman > BigBlock440
09/01/2016 at 10:53

I don't know. CNBC initially said hours.

PatBateman > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
09/01/2016 at 10:54

I'm stealing the Mary Shafer quote.

BigBlock440 > PatBateman
09/01/2016 at 11:43

Well, either way, I guess it’s not launching Saturday.