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Conspiracy theorists can stop looking for a grassy knoll near SpaceX's Cape Canaveral launch complex: the company reckons it's close to explaining why its September launch failed so spectacularly. The explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket, roughly US$200 million of Facebook satellite payload, and extensively damaged the launch …

  1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Alien

    From the grassy knoll to the gassy ball.

    The most interesting part is whether this kind of catastrophic material failure can actually be fixed within a given envelope to money, time and cascading design changes.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: From the grassy knoll to the gassy ball.

      The most interesting part is whether this kind of catastrophic material failure can actually be fixed within a given envelope to money, time and cascading design changes.

      Oh yes, easy. Don't launch AI-capable Facebook satellites. As long as you avoid suicidal payloads with pain in diodes along their left side all ought to be well.

      :)

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: From the grassy knoll to the gassy ball.

        You had me at "don't launch Facebook satellites"..

    2. Nik 2

      Re: From the grassy knoll to the gassy ball.

      As I read it, the report implies that it is only necessary to change the loading conditions of the helium. No design change necessary, although one might be forthcoming anyway.

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

        Re: From the grassy knoll to the gassy ball.

        That's an awful lot of money going up in smoke for the wrong loading conditions.

  2. Ole Juul

    charred knoll

    I suspect that anything on that knoll is long gone.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: charred knoll

      Cooked rabbit, anyone? Slight rocket fuel aftertaste..

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Hopefully a SpaceX rocket never crashes into a truck...

    ...due to being unable to distinguish truck from sky.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Hopefully a SpaceX rocket never crashes into a truck...

      A SpaceX rocket is a truck.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Hopefully a SpaceX rocket never crashes into a truck...

        I like trucking

        1. You aint sin me, roit

          Re: Hopefully a SpaceX rocket never crashes into a truck...

          Space trucking?

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHOrpFeXUao

  4. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Re: grassy knoll

    Look, everbody knows that Kennedy shot himself in order to prevent a time paradoxon. Now, pass the poppadoms please.

    1. Boris the Cockroach Silver badge
      Black Helicopters

      Re: grassy knoll

      No he never, its was Jackie who shot him for the insurance money on his life

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

        Re: grassy knoll

        I heard it was just Oswald.

        Or maybe Lyndon B. Johnson.

        Or the mafia. Could be. There was even a deathbed confession of a sicilian hitman.

        Or Smoking Man.

        Though I will still go for just Oswald.

        Generally all the conspiracy theories make up as if JFK was about to perform the second coming of the Christ. Was he ever. More like Obama the Mad Bomber but with a more active shlong.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: grassy knoll

          "Generally all the conspiracy theories make up as if JFK was about to perform the second coming of the Christ."

          He was so hated by so many people that assassination was a worry. A great deal of the military had a great deal of contempt for him - they thought he should have received a court martial rather than a medal for WWII "exploit", and they could never forgive his betrayal of the Cubans at the Bay Of Pigs.

          As for myself, his greatest sin was that he had a brother named Edward with none of Jack or Bobbies virtues and all of the family defects, plus one of his own: cowardice.

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Surely all the resonable conspiracy theorists will accept this as true and not go on their own tangent for years.

  6. Stevie

    Bah!

    They burst the tank by inflating it too hard?

    Seems a bit ... pedestrian, dunnit?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Bah!

      A blow job. Positively Clintonian.

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