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join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL |  ouch
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join:2006-01-03
New York, NY | Re: Watch here Headshot. | |
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DrewCapu
Giant Diehard
join:2001-12-19
California
clubs: | Oops! "Oops!" has been brought to you by Erasers. Don't make a mistake without one.
Back to Square One. | |
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JoeBubba
join:2006-11-20
Farmingdale, NY | I said that we were all clear for... ..Lunch NOT Launch! Doh! | |
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jeffhambone
Peace, through superior firepower
join:2002-02-02
Manassas, VA
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January 31st, @02:25PM
| Re: I said that we were all clear for... said by JoeBubba  :..Lunch NOT Launch! Doh! Obviously there were too many baritos on board.
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Siryak
join:2005-11-26 | Ouch!!! Ouch...
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lordfly
join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL | Clone? Don't most companies great a clone Satellite just for this reason? It doesn't cost much more to make a second one. | |
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Camelot One
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Austin, TX
clubs: | Who pays for this? Is it the company who bought the sat, the company who launched (and destroyed) the sat, or are private launches like this insured? | |
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Toguro
join:2003-10-23
Ottawa, IL | Re: Who pays for this? Most of the time projects like this are heavily insured. | |
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kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
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| said by Camelot One :Is it the company who bought the sat, the company who launched (and destroyed) the sat, or are private launches like this insured? Dunno but it could easily be Russian - the male voice was counting back in Russian...;)
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@verizon.net | Re: not good. Boeing only built the satellite. The rocket was Ukranian. | |
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| Re: not good. The rocket which failed and exploded was Ukranian. Blame is irrelevant... you said Boeing would "fix it" like it was Boeing's problem. They built the satellite, it was paid for. Sea Launch used a Ukranian rocket to carry the payload, and it exploded. Thus, the issue is that of Sea Launch. The payload was irrelevant, it just happened to be a Boeing-built satellite.
I haven't seen where Boeing is taking any sort of heat for a problem that isn't even related to them.
As far as the diatribe regarding something saying "american." Wow! I don't know where to begin. I don't think Focus Factor would even be of any use in your case... Let me put it this way: THE ROCKET WAS NOT PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CHINA. What were you smoking? | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2002-07-09
Sunnyvale, CA
clubs:
| Re: not good. said by GreysAnatomy :
They built the satellite, it was paid for. It was not paid for, the deal was for In Orbit Delivery and any money Boinc will receive will be from their own insurance, not the customer or the customers insurance.
The attempt to direct the blame from Boinc to Sea Launch is flawed by the 40% ownership that Boinc has in Sea Launch 
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1-3-2-4
Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT
clubs: | Glad someone got it I thought it got in the air when it blew I did not know it was still on the platform  | |
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BuriedCaesar
It's Not Polite To Stare.
join:2004-03-27
Richardson, TX
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January 31st, @02:36PM
| Re: Glad someone got it Looked like it never even went "up" - everything seemed to go down into the fireball. Too bad the video cut off as soon as it did. Sure would like to see the rest of it.
The engines are supposed to be on the bottom of the rocket, right?
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Combat Chuck
Too Many Cannibals
Premium
join:2001-11-29
Verona, PA
| said by BuriedCaesar :Looked like it never even went "up" - everything seemed to go down into the fireball. Your right it didn't go up at all. The engines are started early to give it time to stabilize and then at 0 the hold down devices release if everything looks good. It looks to me like the rocket tipped over just after the engines were lit; like one or more of the hold down clamps or whatever they're attached to failed.
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Yikes! Oh the humanity? | |
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ofacesig
join:2007-01-23
Flower Mound, TX | Satellite internet | |
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Mr. Misanthrope
join:2006-04-19
St Catharines, ON
| Re: Satellite internet said by ofacesig :Satellite broadband capacity has never been that great to begin with. I can understand using this capacity for the middle east and Africa. However Europe should know better. Some eastern parts of Europe are like africa and middle east in the way of being war torn and still re-building.. So those countries would benefit from sat inet. (since there is no alternative)
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csula
@calstatela.edu | Sat BB is crap anyway. God has deemed that satellite broadband is shit, that's why this POS didn't make it off the pad. | |
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digitalfreak
Frodo failed. Bush has the ring
join:2005-12-09
Blacklick, OH | Re: Sat BB is crap anyway. ROFLMAO! How true. | |
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captokita
Premium
join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC | dang..... Those "auto destruct" buttons look an awful lot like "LAUNCH" so it's easy to get the two confused. 
Houston........ we have a problem..... | |
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join:2006-01-03
New York, NY | Re: dang..... PWNED!!!!1111!!!!one | |
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trancient
@verizon.net | accident or sabotage? Me thinks our government wouldn't want those countries to have any more internet access than they really need. Or maybe none at all...
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RetroMUFC
Center Forward
join:2003-02-05
Bethel, NC | Re: accident or sabotage? You can hear the "oh no" in her voice
"go inertiaaaaaaaaal....."
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Premium
join:2005-02-22
Calabash, NC
| Re: accident or sabotage? said by RetroMUFC :You can hear the "oh no" in her voice "go inertiaaaaaaaaal....." LOL! I thought it said "Go in ocean" when I first heard it. | |
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RideRed
Vista needs a popup blocker for Vista
Premium
join:2005-06-18
USA | Yeah, maybe it was run into by a black helicopter | |
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join:2003-10-24
Eatonville, WA | It was in retaliation for China's attack on their weather satellite. We are saying see you might hit ours in the air but yours wont even make it off the GROUND!!! PWNED!!! | |
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DHRacer
Fire Survivor
join:2000-10-10
Lake Arrowhead, CA | I guess this means DTV future HD not jepordized If Christopher Lloyd is to be believed, at least this launch failure doesn't affect DTV's eventual* HD expansion.
I mean eventual with the least amount of sarcasm possible.
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inteller
Sociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK | Chinese: "All Your Broadband Are belong to Us!" Someone set us up the bomb! | |
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FicmanS
Premium
join:2005-01-11
Brownsburg, IN
clubs: | Re: Chinese: "All Your Broadband Are belong to Us!" Somebody is pissed, I am guessing... | |
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ropeguru
Premium
join:2001-01-25
Hollywood, FL
clubs: | Hopefully... We will get a moment by moment play from drjim
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Torrance, CA
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| Re: Hopefully... Well, I wish I could, but we're doing a "Lockdown" right now, like with the Challenger and Columbia disasters. SOP in this business when you have an "anomaly" like this.
It sure was LOUD, though! 
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | Idiots Launching from an oil drigging rig. what brainiac thought of that? why not just launch from the roof of a dynamite factory?
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THZNDUP
Deorum Offensa Diis Curae
Premium
join:2003-09-18
Phoenix, AZ
| That ex-drilling platform was modified then moved to the Pacific. It wasn't used for drilling out there.
The Launch Platform—or LP—a former North Sea oil drilling platform, was refurbished at the Rosenberg Shipyard in Stavanger, Norway. The vessel is one of the largest semi-submersible, self-propelled vessels in the world at 436 feet long, about 220 wide, with an empty draft displacement of 30,000 tons, and a submerged draft displacement of 50,600 tons.
The Launch Platform provides accommodations for 68 crew and launch system personnel—including living, dining, medical and recreation facilities. It is equipped with a large, environmentally controlled hangar for storage of the Sea Launch rocket during transit, and with mobile transporter/erector equipment that is used to roll out and erect the rocket in launch position prior to fueling and launch. Special facilities onboard enable the storage of rocket fuels (kerosene and liquid oxygen) sufficient for each mission.
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THZNDUP
Deorum Offensa Diis Curae
Premium
join:2003-09-18
Phoenix, AZ | Re: Idiots Sometimes it takes a two by four to get their attention first though..... | |
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rob_in_chatt
Premium
join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN | grounded makes me wonder if the docking clamps were released................ | |
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Transmaster
Onward Through The Fog
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
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January 31st, @07:53PM
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Emperor Ming of Mongo, who is known on Broadband Reports as The Taylor Troll. |
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Frodo failed. Bush has the ring
join:2005-12-09
Blacklick, OH
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January 31st, @09:56PM
| LOL »www.navigon.net/sl/
Thought about e-mailing the contact person listed on the website and let them know their launch platform camera isn't working. ROFLMAO!
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Torrance, CA
clubs:
| The Russians DO NOT make "junk". Their stuff might not be as "pretty" as ours, but considering it's meant to be used in really bad weather, and maintained out in the field under adverse conditions, it doesn't have to be "pretty", it just has to work. And it does. This really is "Rocket Science", and things like this happen. It's not any more reasonable to expect 100% reliability from these systems than it is to expect 100% reliability from anything else. These are very complex machines, built to extremely high tolerances, operating at the edge of the technology.
Besides, the webcam and all of it's support equipment is US-provided.
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roachxp
join:2004-05-26
Milford, MA | DirectTv is so screwed So much for having 150 national HD channel this year,aleast one on their sats will be ground launched. | |
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Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs: | Re: DirectTv is so screwed Nope they can switch to the Arianespace to get it off the ground. | |
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