SpaceX Rocket Explosion: What Caused Launch Pad Failure? | TODAY

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1. helping Africans very funny.
2. Is their people their? Well rip looks like a new idea for a gta like game saying you need more fire and smoke
3. @ 40 seconds there is an orb that flashes by when it explodes across the right of the screen to left. If you freeze the frame you can see a metallic orb. Im not whacky, check it out for yourselves
4. Pretty sure it's the launch tower's fault because the explosion started between the rocket and the launch tower.
5. They should get into the Firework business and call it the big bang rocket...
6. I suspect that somehow the self-driving Tesla crash that killed the owner, that awful hyperloop idea and these exploding rockets have something that connects them...
7. I thought it was a test so it didn't have the satellite mouthed yet
8. At 0:40 something flies very fast across the top of screen right to left as the rocket exploded. It's really difficult to see because it's so fast, yet undeniably there. Just under the uslaunchreport text box. Wtf is that?!
9. Typical MSM ,don't mention killer drone destroying rocket. Moving from left to right at .40 secs .
10. HOT
11. I'm glad Facebook failed. This is a great day for human kind.
12. This the 2nd explosion of this SpaceX rocket in 12 months and to think that they are planning to use this rocket for manned missions to the ISS. You better leave manned missions to the experts (the Russians). Elon Musk is so fill of BullShit. Without Billion dollar contracts from the US government, (despite SpaceX not proving itself as a reliable provider) SpaceX would be out of business.
13. The cause of this and all future SpaceX explosions is quite simple. Elon Musk refuses to heed lessons learned by engineers during the Vanguard Project almost 60 years ago. Instead of hiring truly knowledgeable and skilled but older engineers, he only employs very young personnel who waste investor's money as they try to re-invent the wheel. What is more mysterious is why the Obama run NASA management continues to funnel even more money to them. I thought Zuckerberg was smarter than this.
14. would anyone want to see a version with the audio synced up?
15. wonder if the dragon v2 could have aborted from this if passengers were onboard. after all its same exact hardware going to be used for v2
16. watched this happen from melbourne beach... lotta smoke. .
17. I don't like seeing a rocket exploding at Cape Canaveral because I know how many man hours go into building, preparing, and moving them out to the pad for launch. But in reality I would rather have an unmanned rocket explode during a test instead of it exploding above the Cape a few seconds after liftoff to where highly toxic fumes and burning rocket fuel come raining down onto the heads of all the spectators that came to watch the launch.
    
    So in away this accident is both a bad thing and a good thing to happen. Now the hard work of finding out what caused the rocket to explode and then how to correct the problem once found.
18. Wow...