Comment by decimalenough
12 hours ago
On the upside (or maybe that's tightly bolted down side), at least the rocket stayed static, unlike this one in China:
12 hours ago
On the upside (or maybe that's tightly bolted down side), at least the rocket stayed static, unlike this one in China:
Or the Long March destroying an entire rural village which was covered up by the CCP.
That rocket appears to have crashed into an open plain. It was a village?
1996
The village is pretty much gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTFgZ9zl74
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I'm referring to a different Chinese launch failure in 1996.
There is some VHS footage on YouTube surreptitiously shot by Americans on-site supporting the payload which became a guerrilla documentary.
The village was annihilated but the official number from the CCP was 6 dead.
6.
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Not this one. An old one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708
The Chinese government say very few were killed. But personally, my position is that the guys who routinely publish their embarrassing-seeming failures are quite believable (the US publishes that their planes fall off their carriers) and those who say they're perfect are probably lying. So I don't believe their numbers.
I think my mom could have taken better footage of that, and I swear she was the worst. I realize that the person holding the camera was looking at the thing directly and getting lost in the moment rather than looking at the camera, but for someone whose job it's been to operate a camera that is incredibly irritating to watch. It's right up there with the Artemis II launch (okay that's a bit harsh, but they were meant to be "pros")