I don’t need to smack myself in the teeth with a mallet to work out that’ll hurt though.
A flame trench is such an obvious necessity that I really don’t understand why it wasn’t constructed.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 30 Apr 2023, 22:54,
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It's because the launch site is almost at sea level,
so they can't just dig a deep wide trench or tunnel as it would just keep flooding.
The obvious answer to that would be to build a diverter above ground level. SpaceX seem eager to try the water cooled steel plate first, I expect NASA and the FAA are eager for them to build something safer.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 1 May 2023, 0:06,
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They seem to have figured it out at Cape Canaveral.
I know the philosophy is move fast and break things, but they're going to have real problems getting the next launch license after depositing bits of their launch pad up to five miles away.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 1 May 2023, 8:29,
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It won’t just be the FAA that have a problem with what happened.
The Fish & Wildlife Service are likely to take a dim view of proceedings too.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 1 May 2023, 11:04,
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