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originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: muzzleflash
No, but they aren't going to disrupt their schedule to avoid the launch area on one given day.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: muzzleflash
And what happens on that one in a million time when a rocket blows up, and a piece of debris hits a commercial flight, because the rules were "fixed"?
originally posted by: anzha
a reply to: muzzleflash
Are you aware of the damage a rocket can do? They are NOT just funny shaped airliners. Rockets have far, far more energy in them. The N-1 rocket the soviets built to go to the Moon, their equivalent of our Saturn V, exploded with the equivalent of 40 kilotons of TNT: almost 2x the power of the Nagasaki atomic bombing.
A FalconHeavy is far far smaller, but still an explosion would be in excess of a kiloton.
That's in the tactical nuclear weapon arena.
Hence, safety.
And the odds are actually much higher than one in a million.
N1 launch explosion
Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 110
3 July 1969
1 kt of TNT (4 TJ)