[extropy-chat] Sea boom

[Anders Sandberg]

"The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle, carrying the NSS-8 satellite,
experienced an anomaly today during launch operations." as stated on
http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/

The anomaly was of the explosive kind, unfortunately:
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=eMG2SBwIcrM&eurl=http%3A//www.e24.se/dynamiskt/klacksparkar/did_14533588.asp&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static3.sjl.youtube.com/vi/eMG2SBwIcrM/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskLcQYWlDCcNpLn1Q6HKkWpu

Perhaps not a major setback, but sad. However, the explosion is neat.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University