Chinese rocket test

Found the culprit (and if you're old enough to get this reference, I'd like to talk to you about a reverse mortgage...)

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Apparently they've made it to orbit once before, so this static fire was a biiiiiig whoopsie. I'm not sure if something quite like this has happened before.
 
It’s crazy that China does this often enough that I swear I had seen the footage before. Turns out that was an entirely different incident of dropping a full booster on an unsuspecting village, seems like this one largely missed hitting anything.

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schloopy said:
It’s crazy that China does this often enough that I swear I had seen the footage before. Turns out that was an entirely different incident of dropping a full booster on an unsuspecting village, seems like this one largely missed hitting anything.

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That was a really bad accident, basically toxic debris flattened a whole village and killed a lot of people. I flew with a guy who did rocket stuff before the airlines and had been there. The only reason that was not covered up successfully was because westerners were present with camcorders supporting the payload.



Also saw this the other day, im no rocket surgeon but I think orange smoke is no bueno

 
Skåning said:
That was a really bad accident, basically toxic debris flattened a whole village and killed a lot of people. I flew with a guy who did rocket stuff before the airlines and had been there. The only reason that was not covered up successfully was because westerners were present with camcorders supporting the payload.
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There wouldn't be a Westerner within 200 miles today. Wonder how much of this sort of thing has happened and been uh "patriotically expurgated"?
 
Skåning said:
It's like the Soviets had a lot of space "firsts" but at what cost to life? They only reported on the successes after they had happened.
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Truth. Like human expansion around the world. Lots of people made that trip across the many oceans, but few survived to actually make it, and fewer survived to return to say what they have discovered.
 
derg said:
Truth. Like human expansion around the world. Lots of people made that trip across the many oceans, but few survived to actually make it, and fewer survived to return to say what they have discovered.
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Great analogy. Like, the Polynesian expansion in to the Pacific is *stunning*. For about a century no one really believed that it happened because, what, a bunch of dudes got in to a leaky canoe (a thousand times) and just headed off that-a-ways with no compass until they either hit an island or perished at their own speed? Poppycock.

But they did. It's settled science, via genetics.

The other side of it, of course, is that a WHOLE lot of them almost certainly perished at their own speed. We are a curious species.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Great analogy. Like, the Polynesian expansion in to the Pacific is *stunning*. For about a century no one really believed that it happened because, what, a bunch of dudes got in to a leaky canoe (a thousand times) and just headed off that-a-ways with no compass until they either hit an island or perished at their own speed? Poppycock.

But they did. It's settled science, via genetics.

The other side of it, of course, is that a WHOLE lot of them almost certainly perished at their own speed. We are a curious species.
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You mean the Wright Brothers just built and airplane and flew it? :)

Lots of people died over the existence of humans trying to fly. Cavemen flapping their wings off a cliff to guys yeeting broadside into a barn.
 
Skåning said:
It's like the Soviets had a lot of space "firsts" but at what cost to life? They only reported on the successes after they had happened.
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Literally as I was finding the link for Intelsat, I stumbled across this little number which I had never even heard of despite being “the single deadliest disaster in space exploration history”, even with the falsified Soviet casualty numbers.

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schloopy said:
Literally as I was finding the link for Intelsat, I stumbled across this little number which I had never even heard of despite being “the single deadliest disaster in space exploration history”, even with the falsified Soviet casualty numbers.

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Wow hadn’t heard of that! I did find it kinda funny that smoking cigs actually saved a life.

Missile designer Mikhail Yangel survived only because he had left to smoke a cigarette behind a bunker a few hundred metres away, but nonetheless suffered burn injuries.[3][5]
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