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A supply rocket carrying cargo and experiments to the ISS exploded shortly after liftoff. NASA and Orbital Sciences (the company operating the rocket) have not released any information about what may have caused the incident, pending further investigation.
The mission was unmanned, and all personnel are safe and accounted for. The extent of the damage to the launch facility has not yet been determined.
Phil Plait, author of the Bad Astronomy blog speculates that the 60s-70s era refurbished Russian engines the vehicle used will come under heavy scrutiny.
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ISS Resupply Rocket Explodes Shortly after Launch
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(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Wednesday October 29 2014, @02:37PM
Yeah but those are all detail / tech / mechanic / under the hood / economic things. The right pedal is still the accelerator, the steering wheel does its thing, most cars still use physical keys, they burn gas from a gas pump, oil lube, anti-freeze cooled, two seats in front and two in back and a trunk behind that and an engine in the front. Mostly made out of good old steel. Radios are still the highest tech most complicated user interface in the car. They still leak weird fluids on your garage floor occasionally. Its not really all that different.
You do have a point with popularity of manual transmission. I have maybe 50 miles experience with a manual and that puts me ahead of maybe 95% of the driving population.
I could contrast cars with bigger UI changes... phones, computers, TVs and attached devices (cable boxes, video games, streaming boxes)... Conceptually a late 1950s dude introduced to a OTA TV could probably tune in channel 4 just like the old days, but good luck getting him set up with netflix and a streaming box, that would be entertaining to watch.
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