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Explosions rock SpaceX launch site in Florida during testing

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[FONT=&quot]An explosion has rocked the SpaceX launch site in [/FONT]Florida[FONT=&quot].[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Nasa says SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred on Thursday morning. The test, considered routine, was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral air force station.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Buildings several miles away shook from the blast, and multiple explosions continued for several minutes. A cloud of dark smoke filled the overcast sky.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Additional details were not immediately available. But sirens could be heard in the aftermath.
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I appreciate their accomplishment in creating a re-usable launch system but what the industry really needs is an innovation that moves us away from chemical rockets altogether.
 
Space travel is the art of strapping the right sized bomb to your rear end and then making it blow up at just the right speed. Not so fast that it kills you, but fast enough that it accelerates you to several kilometers per second.

Sometimes it blows up too much.

Thankfully, this one was unmanned so injuries are unlikely.
 
This was Facebook's $150 million satellite.

That makes it sorta funny.
 
Deuce said:
Space travel is the art of strapping the right sized bomb to your rear end and then making it blow up at just the right speed. Not so fast that it kills you, but fast enough that it accelerates you to several kilometers per second.

Sometimes it blows up too much.

Thankfully, this one was unmanned so injuries are unlikely.
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It takes a very special person to, as Steve Buscemi said in Armageddon, "sit on four million pounds of fuel..and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts, built by the lowest bidder."
 
Napoleon said:
I appreciate their accomplishment in creating a re-usable launch system but what the industry really needs is an innovation that moves us away from chemical rockets altogether.
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Easier said than done.
 
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