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I'm surprised they don't have a kill switch on that thing, it should never have been left to do a full 180 and fly straight down at goodness-knows-who.


This is why the US launches rockets towards the Atlantic and Russia launches them in the middle of a (mostly) uninhabited desert.


I was just about to post about that. I thought these things had a self-destruct to prevent them from inadvertently becoming an ICBM.


US rockets have a "range safety officer" who is responsible for the self-destruct switch.

I believe Russian rockets just rely on the fact that they will either make it to space, or impact the ground at high velocity.




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