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BillyVanceHere's another view, this time from the press area. Take and look and listen for the grown people crying and screaming. And let me know what you heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ0SgAU9LXI
OMG I think she had an orgasm.
Gone fishing
muff528 3
I love online translates Russian to English crunchy.
Calvin19 0
RobertMBlevinsWell, I can take a guess on WHY the Antares blew up. Check THIS:
Quote'The Antares is powered by the AJ-26 engine built by GenCorp Inc division Aerojet Rocketdyne - a refurbished version of the Soviet-era NK-33 engine developed for the heavy-lift N-1 moon rocket....'
LOL the N-1 was Johnny-Come-Lately 60's tech and was a massive failure for the Soviet space program. It was the Russian equivelent of the Saturn V, with an even larger first stage. When it blew up at about 12K feet during testing (yep), it effectively ended Russia's chances of beating the USA to the moon. Its explosion is often named as either THE biggest, or one of the biggest explosions ever created by man without the use of a nuke.
The NK-33 was not itself a bad rocket engine, the N1 rocket itself was the problem. Beautiful machine, just flawed to the core.
Clustering 30 engines and using dominantly balanced throttling to control pitch and yaw instead of proven gimbaling or plume-vane control just did not work out very well for them.
And from an energy release standpoint the N1 pad failure was the largest non-nuclear 'explosion' in history. Like you said this is the or one of the biggest, the rub is in how you define it. It was an uncontrolled release of energy, but not an explosion in the sense of a bomb where force is perpendicular to the epicenter or the speed of expanding material is even remotely uniform.
Rockets are tough.
multiple enormous and complex vehicles stacked up on top of each other, each subsequent part completely dependent on the flawless function of the previous.
Space is tough. It's the tyranny of Tsiolkovsky.
A gopro from a bunker that looks to me to be no more than a ccouple hundred yards away.
[Url]http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=t1j9TEiqaXM&a=[/url]
Edit: go to about 5:25...
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[Url]http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=t1j9TEiqaXM&a=[/url]
Edit: go to about 5:25...
My wife is hotter than your wife.
BillyVance 34
Probably a good place to get your eardrums blown the fuck out. 
What would be interesting is how far would the shock wave throw an average person back? 
"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban
Calvin19 0
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What would be interesting is how far would the shock wave throw an average person back?
You mean as in a standing person in the path of a shock wave/sonic boom? We could figure that out, actually. it depends on the energy in the wave (pressure difference between high and low and the size of the wave as well as the cross-section orientation of the subject.
Or were you asking in the same sense of the common wuffo question about how when someone opens a parachute 'how far do they get sucked back up?" after seeing an external tandem video.
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BillyVance 34
Calvin19***]
What would be interesting is how far would the shock wave throw an average person back?
You mean as in a standing person in the path of a shock wave/sonic boom? We could figure that out, actually. it depends on the energy in the wave (pressure difference between high and low and the size of the wave as well as the cross-section orientation of the subject.
Or were you asking in the same sense of the common wuffo question about how when someone opens a parachute 'how far do they get sucked back up?" after seeing an external tandem video.
Just straight up stand where the camera was and let the blast wave do the work.
On second thought, maybe a 6'-0" 180 lb mannequin will do just fine.
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kallend 1,621
BillyVanceProbably a good place to get your eardrums blown the fuck out.
What would be interesting is how far would the shock wave throw an average person back?
Fermi's method of estimating the power of the Trinity A-bomb test in 1945.
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www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html
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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.
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kallend***Probably a good place to get your eardrums blown the fuck out.
What would be interesting is how far would the shock wave throw an average person back?
Fermi's method of estimating the power of the Trinity A-bomb test in 1945.
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www.dannen.com/decision/fermi.html
For some visual learners
; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IteNFhPuOk4
There are a few ways a bomb can kill people, irradiation(if it is nuclear), heat radiation(if they are close enough and the bomb is hot enough) and the pressure wave. the difference in pressure between the front of the wave and the behind the wave. (and how quickly that change happens).
There are some very, very scary non-nuclear bombs in existence today.
Never has been. Only between Apollo and Skylab missions was therfe less than a couple of years. And that's because Skylab used Apollo equipment.
From end of Skylab to first Shuttle launch was 7 years! (Apollo-Soyuz excepted - again, it used Apollo equipment). We're not behind schedule, if history is any example.
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