Is this the largest rocket explosion on US soil ever?

Amazon employees are gonna have to piss in a lot more bottles before they get any bonuses from Bezos.

These are the same people who tell me I need to drink with a paper straw, right?

Footage @SpaceflightNow

numbers aren't out yet but some people are estimating it could be the largest rocket explosion in history. on the higher end, like. top five non-nuclear manmade explosions ever.

Some are saying if all the potential energy of both stages were released all at once (sure looks like it), this could be the largest non nuclear explosion in history.

People saying this is the largest non-nuclear explosion are forgetting the Beirut warehouse

Sure is likely

"that coulda fed 2 million homeless!"

Florida actually broke off and is now floating around in the Gulf of America.

Happened at engine start up. Most likely a turbo pump failure Leading to a pressure anomaly travelling up inside the fuselage which then took out the cop v,s at the top. Shows just how hard getting to orbit is.

water tower be like...

This is what happens when you tighten a fastener with 3 ugga duggas instead of 2

Is it her again?

Rocket, probably since we didn’t see a failure like this during Saturn V and the Superheavy Explosion didn’t look as big (guessing it had less fuel). Not sure if you would count the Challenger disaster since it had already taken off. As for explosions, no way. Outside of the Nuclear ones, there’s some conventional explosions much bigger.

How are they allowed to do this? NASA ALREADY KNOW HOW TO BUILD ROCKETS. Why are they wasting poor natural resources creating purposeful damage, when they can just let it be? And let NASA who know how to do it, do it?

cant wait to hear from europeans about the global warming impact from this

No we tested nukes on US soil.

Biggest one yet

But don't forget, your plastic straw is the threat

how is that water tower still standing lol

wb the nuclear trinity Site in New Mexico lol

It beats any NASA or SpaceX explosion I have ever seen!

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Rockets are antiquated technology. I hope nobody was hurt.

Don’t worry, the taxpayers will cover it (consent optional)

It is theoretically largest non-nuclear explosion ever. At least the theoretical energy available was supposedly that much. How much it actually exploded is another question.

Attempting to explore space and other planets while harming our biosphere in the process seems counter productive. We need better tech.

That explosion was closer to looking like a nuke than Oppenheimer

on US soil definitely, largest ever rocket explosion probably was the soviet N1.

Jeff Bezos produced as much greenhouse gases in less than a second as a mid sized American town would in a month

Remove ‘rocket’ and replace it with ‘human-caused-non-nuclear’

cmon @spaceX you just gonna let Bezos take the crown like that?