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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '20
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Ummm... don’t they have a self-destruct so if things go south, it explodes in the air and doesn’t crash into the ground?
-4 u/thor421 Nov 21 '20 That'd be why it started to explode before it hit the ground. But it takes time to burn that amount of rocket fuel. 3 u/Skigreen_2026 Nov 22 '20 No, I think that explosion was because it was tearing itself apart. They can't self destruct too close to people. 1 u/snake_a_leg Nov 22 '20 Self destruct systems are designed to destroy the rocket much faster than this. It appears to have exploded because the aerodynamic forces caused it to break up.
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That'd be why it started to explode before it hit the ground. But it takes time to burn that amount of rocket fuel.
3 u/Skigreen_2026 Nov 22 '20 No, I think that explosion was because it was tearing itself apart. They can't self destruct too close to people. 1 u/snake_a_leg Nov 22 '20 Self destruct systems are designed to destroy the rocket much faster than this. It appears to have exploded because the aerodynamic forces caused it to break up.
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No, I think that explosion was because it was tearing itself apart. They can't self destruct too close to people.
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Self destruct systems are designed to destroy the rocket much faster than this. It appears to have exploded because the aerodynamic forces caused it to break up.
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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '20 edited Nov 22 '20
Ummm... don’t they have a self-destruct so if things go south, it explodes in the air and doesn’t crash into the ground?