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Just to clarify, his immediate comment that "they blew it out of the sky" is (at best) pure speculation.

If you want to watch third-party livestreams, I usually recommend the NASASpaceFlight streams [1] that have more fact-based narration. They also had debris hitting their camera, but it seems to have survived.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUu1lih2RifWkKtDOJdsBA/vid...

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Are those tanks around the landing site full of anything volatile? Seems odd to me to plan on landing a highly experimental rocket next to equipment like that. I am assuming the whole landing site is miles away from people.

Conversely, I find it odd that these experimental ships have failed that many times without having neded to autodestruct a single one. The mechanism must be there, but seems like it has not been used.

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