NASA release Antares explosion photos and vids

[Pesty]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-wha...


https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKozAoNq1RHqNf...

[Simpo Two]

Ow.

Man has been launching big rockets for 50+ years. Should they really be going bang so often?

[TheInternet]

The water tower is getting a lot of praise.

[Pesty]

Water tower don't care

[Simpo Two]

Anyone else thinking that maybe they should make rockets from the same stuff they make water towers with?

[Beati Dogu]

Looks like a Martian fighting machine to me.

ULLAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

Anyone else thinking that maybe they should make rockets from the same stuff they make water towers with?

I wonder what it would take to accelerate a water tower to 17,500 mph?

[Simpo Two]

Depends if full of water or not...



...replace water with rocket fuel and you're halfway there!

[Eric Mc]

Well, you will get a bang - but probably not much else.

[Simpo Two]

I've given you the metal and the fuel... I thought you might bring a rocket motor as your half of the deal...

[Eric Mc]

When does it stop being a standard old water tower and start being a proper rocket with orbital ambitions?

[Simpo Two]

When it works

[marksx]

Another angle of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1j9TEiqaXM

[Eric Mc]

Simpo Two said:

When it works

Which it wouldn't. Otherwise they'd be building rockets that look like water towers.

[Simpo Two]

The material, not the appearance

[Eric Mc]

Robert Goddard's first rockets looked a bit like mini-water towers, it has to be said -





Of course, it was the hefty construction that allowed the water tower at Wallops Island to survive the blast. It's also the reason why rockets aren't made from the same materials.