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This is nonsense. The rocket was expected to explode. That's basically the only thing it can do once the dragon escapes.
by ddevault 7y ago
This is nonsense. The rocket was expected to explode. That's basically the only thing it can do once the dragon escapes.
- soheil 7y agoIt is insane how willfully someone with over 20k karma points on HN ignores the details of what I'm referring to (the manner in which it exploded not that it exploded) and bluntly assumes the dumbest thing possible about a somewhat neutral statement.
- endothrowho333 7y agoYou wrote a very poorly structured, punctuation-less, run-on sentence in the GP comment. You did so again here. In both instances it is unclear what you're trying to convey. Coupled with taking a neutral comment personally, the simplest conclusion to make is that you're not writing for the benefit of anyone else, besides yourself. Language's primary function is to communicate information. Our minds are like compilers that translate human-readable language into simplified neural impulses. If you write code with poor syntax, the human mind will still compile it, but you're going to get a lot of unexpected behavior, i.e "what the fuck is this guy trying to convey?"
- martindevans 7y agoI _think_ what you're getting at is that the flight termination system triggered (controlled explosion) but not when it should have (unplanned)? As far as I understand it once the capsule ejected the Falcon 9 was destinated to break up (due to aerodynamic forces) and that break up would trigger the FTS automatically. So the AFTS triggering was part of the plan. That said it also doesn't really matter - the test was about what happens to the capsule when something goes wrong and not what happens to the booster.