There was a fire going on when it landed.
The first thing I thought after the boom was the demonstration by our science
teacher in high school. He took a metal coffee can, with a hole in the side and
another one in the lid, and used the side hole to fill it with gas from the
bunsen burner tap. He then lit the gas at the top hole, and it burned with a
peaceful little blue flame for a couple of minutes....
.. and then blew up, with the lid bouncing off the ceiling. It looks like this
is what happened to the rocket.
John
On Friday, March 5, 2021, 11:18:54 a.m. EST, Norman Yarvin
<yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I wonder if there'd be anything in the wreckage which could still
explode after a general kaboom like that, and would thus justify robot
inspection. (Helium tank? Lithium batteries?)
Anyway, maybe they'll equip that dog so that if it detects a fire it
can lift a rear leg and put it out.
On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:29:18PM -0500, Anthony Cesaroni wrote:
I've always had a distrust for Boston Dynamics or at least their funders for
some reason.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-cyberpunk-scene-at-spacexs-launc
h-facilities-a-robot-dog-inspected-the-wreckage-of-a-starship-rocket-prototy
pe/ar-BB1eg15a?li=BBnb7Kz
Just saying.
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