Sci/Tech Airline passenger catches Falcon 9 liftoff on his cell

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sparkuri

sparkuri

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BeardOfKnowledge said:
It's crazy to me they'd launch that so close to a commercial plane.
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That was my first thought, but flight traffic is weaved FAR tighter.
It's really quite far.
They had to calculate the chance of it exploding & hitting the plane as astronomical.
Like the chances of going to a Disneyland fireworks show & getting hit by one of the fireworks.
It looks like it's right there/exciting, but with near zero chance of interaction.
 
BeardOfKnowledge

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sparkuri said:
That was my first thought, but flight traffic is weaved FAR tighter.
It's really quite far.
They had to calculate the chance of it exploding & hitting the plane as astronomical.
Like the chances of going to a Disneyland fireworks show & getting hit by one of the fireworks.
It looks like it's right there/exciting, but with near zero chance of interaction.
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It's not the path that would concern me, it's the speed.

The thing with rockets is when launches go wrong, they go really, really wrong really, really fast.
 
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