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"blowed Up Real Good!", A Place for Spectacular Failures
lyford
post Dec 20 2005, 07:42 PM
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If you're gonna go bad, you might as well make it good!

What are your "favorite" launch failures? blink.gif

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Bill Harris
post Dec 30 2005, 01:31 AM
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Yep, I do imagine that his experimentation was met with uneven enthusiasm by the local authorities.

When I was a budding mad scientist as a young teen I made a plasma torch of a 110VAC carbon arc lamp and used freon as the gas. Did it once and only once.

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- lyford   "blowed Up Real Good!"   Dec 20 2005, 07:42 PM
- - dvandorn   I don't have an image or the footage handy, bu...   Dec 21 2005, 01:02 AM
- - Bill Harris   The saddest rocket failure I remember is the Vangu...   Dec 21 2005, 01:33 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Dec 20 2005, 08:33 PM)Th...   Dec 21 2005, 04:55 AM
- - ilbasso   What amazes me is the number of these boosters - o...   Dec 21 2005, 04:32 AM
- - dot.dk   "we've had an anomaly" http://ww...   Dec 21 2005, 07:35 AM
|- - GravityWaves   QUOTE (dot.dk @ Dec 21 2005, 04:35 AM) ...   Apr 10 2006, 02:46 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   (1) CBS spent 6 straight months following the ass...   Dec 21 2005, 09:03 AM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 21 2005, 04:03 AM)(1...   Dec 21 2005, 03:36 PM
|- - Tesheiner   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 21 2005, 10:03 AM)(3...   Dec 21 2005, 04:48 PM
|- - lyford   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Dec 21 2005, 01:03 AM)Th...   Dec 21 2005, 06:41 PM
- - dvandorn   Actually, Bruce, the way I always heard the story,...   Dec 21 2005, 09:39 AM
- - edstrick   "I created a home for all our pyromania......   Dec 21 2005, 11:00 AM
- - odave   The launch failure I'm most fond of is one of ...   Dec 21 2005, 04:20 PM
- - Bill Harris   Those are great clips, Lyford. People like things...   Dec 21 2005, 10:42 PM
- - tty   My own favorite launch blooper concerns a cruise m...   Dec 21 2005, 11:50 PM
|- - mhoward   QUOTE (tty @ Dec 21 2005, 11:50 PM)My own fav...   Dec 22 2005, 12:02 AM
- - lyford   This one was almost fireworks - got a nice ...   Dec 22 2005, 02:25 AM
- - dvandorn   I lost the link to this when my machine kept going...   Dec 22 2005, 02:37 AM
|- - ljk4-1   Ever wonder what a cluster of 747 engines would do...   Dec 22 2005, 02:40 AM
|- - lyford   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 21 2005, 06:37 PM)I los...   Dec 22 2005, 05:51 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (lyford @ Dec 22 2005, 06:51 PM)I think...   Dec 29 2005, 09:53 PM
- - deglr6328   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Dec 22 2005, 02:37 AM)I los...   Dec 22 2005, 03:17 AM
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|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (edstrick @ Dec 22 2005, 05:44 AM)Then,...   Dec 22 2005, 02:14 PM
- - jrdahlman   For a hilarious story on WHY a rocket could go off...   Dec 22 2005, 07:00 PM
|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (jrdahlman @ Dec 22 2005, 02:00 PM)For ...   Dec 22 2005, 08:02 PM
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|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 30 2005, 03:47 AM)Di...   Jan 10 2006, 02:34 PM
- - Bill Harris   Amazing... I would have expected him to have gotte...   Dec 29 2005, 10:09 PM
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|- - BruceMoomaw   [quote name='Bob Shaw' date='Apr 5 200...   Apr 6 2006, 12:01 AM
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|- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Apr 6 2006, 03:56 PM...   Apr 6 2006, 08:12 PM
||- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Apr 6 2006, 09:12 PM...   Apr 6 2006, 09:52 PM
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