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Heard about it on the BBC News Channel, rather unimpressive footage, that is closer and you can see the bang better! 
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Something went very very wrong with the upper stage propellant loading.
Marc
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It was described on BBC news as "an anomaly on the launchpad" which I felt was a little under selling it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Still better than the "rapid unscheduled disassembly" that somebody used a few months ago.
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Foothill wrote: It's a tragedy
Not really, it is just part of rocket science development; things blow up; ideally, they blow up in a controlled way and the rocket goes up instead of everywhere.
Just to highlight the fact that safety measures are really high because of that fact.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Spot on.
The expression "It ain't rocket science" doesn't exist for no good reason.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I just hope it does not put a dampener on the program.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Foothill wrote: It's a tragedy
Did they find the code that was responsible?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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if (Rocket.Gremlin != null)
{
Rocket.Gremlin.MessWithPlugsUntilItBreaks(GremlinMischeifLevel.Extreme);
}
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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C# code can't cause this due to the automatic Gremlin-collector.
Must be some all-purpose symbolic instruction code 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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They forgot to implement an exception handler.
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Please don't call it an "explosion". We prefer the term "surprise".
The "surprise" occurs at 1:10.
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Who is 'we'? Just asking because I once also belonged to a team thet sent a few rockets on their way and had to deal with malfunctions (as well as saying "Sorry, my fault!" in Russian),
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It's actually a joke I took from SNL.
When the reactor accident happened at Three Mile Island in 1979, SNL joked that we are not calling it an "accident", we prefer to call it a "surprise".
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Foothill wrote: It's a tragedy
Since it blocks Zuckerbergs expansion, it is nowhere near a tragedy.
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There was a US$200 Million satellite sitting on top of this whilst they fiddled for the planned weekend launch. I wonder who's going to suck up that cost.
I also heard the satellite manufacturer was going to be bought by the Chinese, but their was a contingency in the deal about getting this satellite into orbit.
Do you really believe it to be an accident, my conspiracy-theory droogies[^]? A way for one side or the other to cancel the deal? A sudden opportunity for a third party? Too much fruit in the yogurt?
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Is an Australian groper by an outdoor charcoal grill a sheila feeler . . . or a Barbie bumper?
[modified]
I'm beginning to think there's something wrong with me.
I'm also beginning to think that I like it.
Never mind.
[/modified]
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 1-Sep-16 14:39pm.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I'm beginning to think there's something wrong with me.
I'm also beginning to think that I like it.
Embrace the madness.
Would be the only normal reaction.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: the only normal reaction.
But if I have a normal reaction, what of my madness?
But since it's the only normal reaction, and I'm mad, I wouldn't embrace it.
Perhaps - on observation of the world - I should merely express it as "Accepting the Honor"
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If you make eye contact with a lady, have you cauterise?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If she is hot enough!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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 The joke doesn't really work without your part.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That's a dame good crack remark.
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I've been burned by that before!
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That lady over there? I don't think I ever metaphor.
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