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  2. No loss there. In fact it would be a benefit to society if, as Jean said in a another comment, if farcebook disappeared.

  3. Musk obviously needs more subsidies…although saves the bother of landing the thing again and then blowing up.

  4. Facebook satellite ?? Really ? Geeze … talk about your unnecessary space JUNK ! Start CLEANING up orbital space by cancelling this EVIL hunk of metal.

  5. Apparently, it wasn’t an explosion, it was an “anomaly on the launching pad”…………..gotta love PC speechwriting!

  6. Let me guess Facebook dubbed the satellite the:
    “SUCKER-BURG”
    You’ve got that Hindenburg feeling…!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  7. I agree,Ken,though Facebook serves one useful purpose: it demonstrates how stupid some people vying for political Office truly are.

  8. Too bad the whole farcebook didn’t go with it…Maybe someday people will lie to each face to face again like the good old days.

  9. Good one!
    Zuckerberg wants open borders so badly that he bought up the four houses next to HIS sprawling home, lest the unwashed try to peek into his windows and interrupt *his* perfect life. Typical plutocrat.

  10. Will any of the remains be … uh … re-usable ? Isn’t that the Space-X claim to fame ?
    Self-driving car – CHECK
    Re-usable spacecraft – CHECK
    Government “investment” – CHECK !

  11. Well, I support the space endeveavours of the super rich. The other carp, not so much.

  12. What do you expect from a company run by a pompous ass that tries to launch a satellite for another company that’s run by a different pompous ass?
    Maybe they shouldn’t hire so many people who spent their undergraduate engineering studies trying to win robot competitions.

  13. The satellite was Israeli-made. I thought Farcebook supported that whole BDS Israel movement thing.

  14. To quote William Holden’s character in the movie “The Wild Bunch”:
    “Ten thousand cuts an awful lot of family ties.”

  16. Steve – I thought that the first time I saw the video. The ‘go boom’ stuff should be down lower. But hey, what do I know….

  18. I had the SAME exact thought … I could only assume that it was the flammable gasses (which seemed to be surrounding the rocket) that was set-off by some spark or something originating in the capsule ?

  19. Initial reports say that a Carbon Overwrapped Pressure Vessel (Spherical metal tank wrapped in carbon fiber to give it structural integrity) blew. Interesting, considering they ran some on the shuttle for ~30 flights and SpaceX hasn’t had trouble with them before. The bright flash would have been from the Hypergolic fuels inside igniting on contact with the atmospheric Oxygen.

  23. So I went to Drudge and opened the video.
    Adjustment settings on lower right corner.
    Full screen, Max HD, Slow to .25
    Some bird.

  25. @ lickmuffin, the payload and its associated antennas were made here in Montreal for an Israeli communications company. It’s a bit tragic to see so many man-years of effort wiped out in less than a minute.

  26. @ lickmuffin, the payload and its associated antennas were made here in Montreal for an Israeli communications company. It’s a bit tragic to see so many man-years of effort wiped out in less than a minute.

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