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I love creative use of words

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I love creative use of words

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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!
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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.


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