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Engineering is science.
/get the popcorn. There is a nice action movie on CP Lounge.
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I do believe this will out-do Game of Thrones™.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's a catastrophe! The ISS needs those Maryland Crab Cakes!
The good news: it was unmanned.
The bad news: what was it carrying that even Nasa say it is "hazardous" and "don't go near it"? I'm guessing radioactives...either that or those crab cakes were well past their "sell-by" date. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'd say the hazard is from any Hydrazine[^] that didn't get burnt.
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Thankfully, we don't use Hydrazine any more. Very nasty. Very unstable. Very corrosive. Antares uses RP1 and LOX (yes, I just looked this up this morning, I am not a rocket scientist). RP1 is - get ready - rocket propellant 1 - got to love it. Anyway its like jet fuel on steroids, but much safer than hydrazine.
Titan II ICBMs used to use this stuff. One blew up in Arkansas one day - Air Force found the warhead a couple of hundred feet from the silo. Meh, just a 9MT city killer.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
modified 29-Oct-14 15:03pm.
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Amarnath S wrote: Is it possible to prevent such happenings? Rather, what does it take to prevent them?
There is one way in which to be sure of this sort of thing never happening again.
Never launch a rocket again...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Amarnath S wrote: Is it possible to prevent such happenings?
There are two ways to answer your question:
0: It hasn't happened since, so we can safely assume that the guys who are responsible for such things are doing their jobs better than we can do them from our armchairs.
1: To prevent it happening "right in front of our eyes", we don't have to look. We can spend our time looking at problems that we personally can fix, instead.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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This time they just celebrated a birthday from somebody. Yeah, those boys know how to party! 
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Well according to at least one* American preacher so far, God blew it up because there are too many gays.
So all we need to prevent such things happening again is fewer gays.
Although UKIP also blamed the gays for the rains that flooded the UK a year ago.
I'm not sure if this means that the gays also get the credit for the unseasonably warm October we're having.
If so, could they all gay a little bit harder the rest of this week and we should be able to get BBQ weather for the weekend.
*I'm guessing there will be more.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Why can't I be happy? 
Four those who are too young to remember, from Wikipedia:
The term gay was originally used to refer to feelings of being "carefree", "happy", or "bright and showy".
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"There was a lady, and a lady, gay". Classic folk song.
Dave.
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You're absolutely right!
Those damned gays!
Someone should do something about them!
This message was sponsored by the ICan'tSeeFurtherThanTheEndOfMyNose party.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's where I am till 15-Nov-2014. Any kind Aussie CPian here?
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Nope, wrong side of the country... but if you are looking for a good club to go to, I'll hook you up with my mate Benny!!
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I am too old for clubs. Would rather sit at the quiet place with a beer or two.
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Well, don't say I didn't offer!!
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d@nish wrote: Would rather sit at the quiet place with a beer or two
Then wander down to Fremantle docks, pick a nice bar for people watching, there are plenty there. If you get the opportunity and like wine then take a drive/trip to Margaret River, some of Oz's best wines, bloody expensive but lovely wines.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Many have recommended Fremantle at office already. Now, I need to go there.
I am not a sophisticated high society type wine and cheese tasting guy, so no wine. I like beer.
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d@nish wrote: I am not a sophisticated high society type wine and cheese tasting guy
A WHAT! Bloody hell you don't need to be the first 2 to enjoy the wine and cheese, I enjoy wine and cheese with some real lowlifes and I assume they are the better company, never having been accused of being sophisticated.
While they do have a couple of boutique breweries down there the 4 hour drive is not worth it, Freo on the other hand is just down the road.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Unless you're a rich winesnob, the only difference you'll notice between a $15 bottle of wine and a $150 bottle is how quickly your wallet empties; which is a good reason for the rest of us to avoid places that only sell the expensive stuff.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well I'm neither rich nor I hope a wine snob but I can tell the difference between a $30 bottle (SGD) and a $100, now the difference between a $150 and a $300 bottle is, to me, undetectable, the 1 or 2 times I have been exposed to such wines.
To me, the difference between a $15 bottle and a $50 bottle is huge. I remember getting some $6 cleanskins in the Hunter Valley many years ago that were just excellent. Price is not the defining point when it come to wine.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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d@nish wrote: I am too old for clubs
How can anybody be to old for a club and still be able to see what's on his screen? Or do you reader that tells you what is answered to your thread?
By the way, three month ago in one of the clubs I go, somebody celebrated is 78s birthday. But if you are much older, I can understand.
So my motto is:
If you are not dead go to a club, if you are dead play golf with the other zombies.
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I don't know. I feel old when I see people in early 20s at the club. I just have 10 months and I will quit 20s. I swear.
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Uh. Yes. I'm in the early 20s. Na, in real life I'm end 20s. Okay. That's a lie. I'm in the 40s. But I'm number one on the dancefloor.
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...and if you do go to Margaret river, go eat some chocolates, cakes, and ice cream at the Margaret river chocolate factory.
If you go to Carvesham wildlife park, you can pet some kangaroos.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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