Damon Hill wrote:

Craig Fink wrote in
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The video shows what happens to a component of the solid fuel that was
considered a non-explosive at the time. Mix it all together, and it's
still a non-explosive? I don't think so. Then put men and women in a
vehicle riding on this, non-explosive, that can't have higher order
detonation, like Ammonium Perchlorate can't? I don't think so.

And you'd be wrong. Channeling Hob Baller again?

Granted, solids have unforgiving failure modes and I'm generally
not happy with Ares 1 as a concept, but the fuel grain won't detonate.
Your simplistic thinking ignores the engineering that went into
the propellant design that makes it very energetic, but stable.

Yeah, hopefully I'd be wrong. Are you being nice to Bob Haller yet?

But, I wouldn't be surprised to see one go up like a firecracker.

So, you can tell I don't like them, probably comes from holding my breath
for two minutes.
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