I love creative use of words

[Firebolter]

I have been in the testing business most of my career. Mostly missiles and rockets. When we would have a failure, you would look at the data and make an assessment. X and Y failed and the vehicle exploded.

Today, SpaceX launched what was the largest rocket ever made to date and it failed 4 min into flight and on the live stream the rep said "just minutes later after the launch and awaiting stage 1/2 separation, the vehicle experienced a failure – the vehicle experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

"A rapid unscheduled disassembly". That's about the best lipstick you could ever apply to a pig!

[phoo]

Yeah, I love that crew. They've been using that phrase for several years now, but it's funny every time. And I love that they immediately started cheering right after they watched years' worth of work blow up in the sky.


~Patrick

[Firebolter]

It is true what they say, we learn more from failures sometimes than we do in success-

[smdub]

Elon had tweeted at least a month ago that anything beyond the clearing the tower (or something like that) was a success. I was expecting the RUD earlier. Looks like they were at least 4 engines short in the video at the end where you could see them individually. It took a LOOOOONG time to clear the tower. I wonder how many engines they were down at liftoff.