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Elon Musk Asks Twitter For Help In Finding Cause of SpaceX Explosion (gizmodo.com)
On September 1, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and destroyed the AMOS-6 satellite that belonged to Facebook, which was going to be used to beam internet to developing parts of the world. Since the cause for the explosion has yet to be solved, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is asking for help via Twitter. Slashdot reader Thelasko writes: Elon Musk stated on Twitter last night, "Still working on the Falcon fireball investigation. Turning out to be the most difficult and complex failure we have ever had in 14 years." He went on to say, "Important to note that this happened during a routine filling operation. Engines were not on and there was no apparent heat source." Other Tweets mention a "bang" sound before the fire, and that SpaceX "have not ruled out" the possibility that something struck the rocket.
It was a FaceBook satellite. FaceBook has a policy of deliberately knocking their own servers off line to test the resilience of the network. At some point someone must have misunderstood what the idea was. Maybe an AI was programmed to randomly take down parts of the network and it somehow figured out how to blow up the rocket.
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Did they have the autopilot turned on?
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Someone misread it as a ka-bang payload.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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It is rather amusing that SpaceX claims that their technology is "loaded with sensors" so they can diagnose any issues while they are occuring, but then Musk is on Twitter asking for iPhone videos of the launch.
Nah. Twitter will be too busy censoring possible theories claiming they're harassing the explosion.
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What's Musk's excuse?
He's cutting corners to make his flying death trap seem cheaper.