Bad Day for Elon

Boom.

I wonder if there's insurance for something like this?  Musk's track record isn't exactly pristine.

"Anomaly"! I love it!

Nobody's record is pristine. Knowing how insurance companies work, I expect any coverage would be pretty damn expensive. Maybe the payload would be worth covering, but I doubt the launch vehicle is. (The rocket costs $62m, the payload this time cost around $300m - quite a difference.)

Most of these launches do have insurance, but it is very expensive. Duh!

Anomaly is a term of art for us quality control nerds. A test has expected results. If you get something unexpected, that's an anomaly, which may or may not be caused by a bug (maybe the test case was defined incorrectly).

"Houston, we, uh, have a problem."

I'm familiar with the word anomaly - it is just such a pussy way to describe a giant explosion.
"Major Fuckup in Launch" would be better.

NoCoPilot wrote:

"Houston, we, uh, have a problem."

That's a movie quote. What they actually said was "Houston, we've had a problem".

Besides which, this occurred in Florida.

"Uh, Canaveral, we've had an anomaly."

_Howard wrote:

I'm familiar with the word anomaly - it is just such a pussy way to describe a giant explosion.
"Major Fuckup in Launch" would be better.

"oh, the humanity!"

Or as they often say in Florida, "Oh, the humidity."