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June 7, 2008: Flying Bricks
You may or may not have seen the news story , about the June 2nd launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, doing "unprecedented damage" to the launch pad.
This picture was supposedly taken by an amateur photographer/tourist, but it looks like it was taken from a position a lot closer than they allow tourists, to me.
Anyway, it clearly shows the debris (pieces of brick and concrete), from the flame trench, raining down on the water.
photo credit ~ Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now
Kagen4o4 Saturday Jun 7 01:02 AM
thats why people arent allowed near there. isnt that why?
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 7 01:11 AM
That's not a normal occurrence. People aren't allowed closer in case the sumbitch blows up on the pad.
Imigo Jones Saturday Jun 7 01:36 AM
If bricks could fly . . .
. . . they'd be brickbats.
Must be the site's June theme.
Sundae Saturday Jun 7 03:22 AM
Recipe for cauliflower cheese anyone?
Stress Puppy Saturday Jun 7 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
This picture was supposedly taken by an amateur photographer/tourist, but it looks like it was taken from a position a lot closer than they allow tourists, to me.
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SPUCK Saturday Jun 7 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Stress Puppy
Telephoto lens?
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sweetwater Saturday Jun 7 07:29 AM
I wonder if they'll think to finance the repairs by selling the bricks on eBay.
TheMercenary Saturday Jun 7 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by sweetwater
I wonder if they'll think to finance the repairs by selling the bricks on eBay.
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xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 7 11:44 AM
Why aren't they allowed to do that? Government surplus auction.
sweetwater Saturday Jun 7 11:49 AM
I saw an Authentic Piece of the Berlin Wall in a small box at a garage sale recently. Tempted but resisted. For all I know, it was actually one of the concrete kibbles from the NASA photo.
footfootfoot Saturday Jun 7 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Stress Puppy
Telephoto lens?
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Boat?
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 7 01:30 PM
That could be, if the pads are those circles out near the open water.
footfootfoot Saturday Jun 7 02:49 PM
Damn, Bruce gets all the best classified photos!
Alternate caption for the thread pic:
"You deserve a brick today."
Griff Saturday Jun 7 03:18 PM
What's that? Looks like the bricks hit an endangered manatee...
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 7 04:26 PM
That's a Dolphin. 
footfootfoot Saturday Jun 7 04:37 PM
Oh the humanatee!
Griff Saturday Jun 7 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by footfootfoot
Oh the humanatee!
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newtimer Sunday Jun 8 04:30 AM
Fake! Somebody obviously just put a glob of mashed potatoes on the ground next to a puddle, zoomed in with the camera, and took a close-up shot.
Ain't no bricks there.
Griff Sunday Jun 8 05:44 AM
Fake mashed potatoes! That ain't how we roll.
ed Sunday Jun 8 09:28 AM
this is not true!
Diaphone Jim Sunday Jun 8 11:55 AM
Story and more pics here:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttl...d3/index3.html
Swept the trough clean and punched holes in a fence 1/4 mile away.
Like the whole facility, getting old?
xoxoxoBruce Sunday Jun 8 12:43 PM
Thanks for that link, Jim. I see that picture is credited to "Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now". When I found it, the person posting it just said, it was taken by a friend.
footfootfoot Sunday Jun 8 01:32 PM
With friends like that who needs enemas?
Gravdigr Monday Jun 9 05:44 AM
Wow. That's enough bricks to build a shithouse. A brick shithouse.
BigV Monday Jun 9 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
That could be, if the pads are those circles out near the open water.
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It's a long ways away, people. To give you some sense of scale, that little box of a building in the center of the frame is the VAB. It's big. Really big.
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Size
The VAB is 525 feet (160.02 m) tall, 716 feet (218.24 m) long and 518 feet (157.89 m) wide. It covers 8 acres (32,374.85 mē), and encloses 129,428,000 cubic feet (3,664,992.82 cubic metres) of space.[1] One indicator of the building's scale is that each of the stars on the American flag painted on the building is 6 feet (1.83 m) across, the blue field is the size of a regulation basketball court, and the stripes are as wide as a standard road lane. The flag is 209 feet (63.70 m) high, and 110 feet (33.53 m) wide, and was added in 1976 as part of United States Bicentennial celebrations, along with the star logo of the anniversary, later replaced by the NASA logo in 1998. The interior volume of the building is so vast, NASA employees have reported it has its own weather, "NASA employees report that rain clouds form below the ceiling on very humid days."[3] The building implements four large air machines (four cylindrical structures west of the building) to keep moisture under control. |
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