Not only that. His company makes money by betting on downturns. So... it's not like he doesn't have a vested interest in markets tanking.

I see your point, but that same logic is ignored for most other companies so I'm not sure how we should take it.

YCombinator makes money betting in startups, it sure has a vested interest in disruption. Would we be up in arms at YC regularly pointing out potential disruption paths ?

How good is his company reaping money based on his philosophy?

That was amazing! Thank you.

Wait, idlewords is still around??

Also what I do. Or try to do.

Just gimbal lock. Drifting happens to all of them.

But also the gimbal mechanisms, gimbal low response time, etc.

That doesn't negate FTS.

Imo if SpaceX thought it was possibly FTS they wouldn't say RUD. They still had telemetry for multiple seconds as it pitched wildly and engines failed, if FTS didn't trigger then it probably didn't at all.

Yeah I thought about that some more and at that altitude and speed the FTS is usually already deactivated.

Maybe it did, or is it public that it didn't? A possible sequence (very typical in rocket failures) is: fire, engine failure(s), loss of control, rupture due to aero forces or FTS activation, explosion due to propellant mixture. Not all of these have to happen, but it's a typical progression. Before the days of AFTS the FTS activation would be pretty delayed.

Nope. That's definitely an explosion (source: I'm in the rocket business). However it may not be an explosion of the whole stage. Probably of the engine section.

Nevermind. It was probably the FTS like other people pointed out.