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Indian Launch Vehicle Explodes After Lift-Off

Posted by timothy on from the christmas-setback dept.

Indian communications satellite GSAT-5P was destroyed by the explosion of its launch vehicle, the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle. The GSLV malfunctioned while still in its first phase of its Christmas launch, after less than a minute of flight. YouTube has a video of the explosion, taken from TV9 Kannada.

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  1. Re:hey, don't knock it by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Other than those two, and a few other mishaps,

          So what you're saying is that if we exclude every event where things went wrong, the US has a perfect record?

          Tell me something, do you work for the Federal Reserve?

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    Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
  2. Reading comprehension failure - you and others by dbIII · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Either you are that stupid to not realize not all Americans are like

    Or on the other hand perhaps he is not generalising to the entire population of two continents and you have failed to comprehend what it written. I take it as generalising to the poorly educated, ignorant, jingoistic portion of the population that would write an ignorant pile of steaming manure such as the post he replied to. Instead it appears you see the word "American", ignore the context, then think it is aimed at yourself, George Washington and apple pie.
    He's not yelling at you, simply at the smug "USA is greatest and the rest are all monkeys yawl" in the post prior to it.