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I feel terrible for all the Blue Origin people (and relieved no one was hurt) but no lie, this is one of the greatest explosions I've ever seen. VFX departments are study and imitate it for years to come. Michael Bay is somewhere saying "Damn, not bad."

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Spaceflight Now

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Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket. Watch live views: youtube.com/watch?v=thfYPs

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Stuntman Mike

@Stunt_ManMik3

Closest thing i've seen to this was in The Creator

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Zack Stentz

@MuseZack

SPFX guys have to add gasoline vapor to make movie explosions look cooler than real ones, but it turns out hundreds of tons of supercooled liquid methane blow up REAL nice.

Blue Origin makes its money back licensing multiple angles of the explosion

The Beirut explosion was more visceral and frightening, but this one was much more majestic. It practically exploded in slow motion.

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Bobby Goodlatte

@rsg

I bet Blue Origin has slow-mo footage of this too, from every angle

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X₿Tnaught 丰 Max₿idding さとし, サトシ

@XBTnaught

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“VFX departments are study and imitate it for years to come” Try speaking English

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to make an “even greater explosion” than your post .. I guess it incorporated you all into it

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If I were at the site I would've asked someone to start filming as I put on my shades and walk away from the rocket in slow motion.

That wasn't just a bunch of burning fuel... did you notice the shockwave? Something went high-order. Also, the second stage exploded on its own as it began to fall.

Holy shit I didn’t watch it until this tempted me It’s actual homework Video Copilot could never

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Yextiny 2: Yextinier

@Yextiny

it really is an all-timer & you don't even have to feel bad watching it bc nobody died

Sonny

@lork99

Michael Bay was eating dinner and an unknown yet familiar feeling moved like wave through his soul. He knew something devastating and magical had simultaneously happened.

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Seddissen Cyntrail

@SedCentral

Not sure why people think Michael Bay is the gold standard for explosions when 90% of his explosions are fire work sparklers. Seeing Deep Water Horizon's movie explosion literally flipped a switch in my head that told me Mr. Bay was a washed up fraud and I can't look at his

I thought the same. I even gained a newfound respect for Michael Bay, he's ''close enough ".

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Anshel Sag

@anshelsag

Hahaha I was just saying this to friends, nothing beats the real thing.

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Western Mass Weather

@DHTheWeatherNut

It’s objectively one of the stupidest things anybody has ever seen. What a colossal waste of resources.

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Casey de Fremery

@CapitalF

Yes, it was hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and lost resources but damn, the mise-en-scene is pretty stellar

Earl Great

@mynewcat

I could feel my face warming up through the TV

Just spoke with my son who works for Blue and they had a company wide meeting today and Blue is fully committed to moving forward with their mission, and while everyone is devastated they have been assured they're not going anywhere

Robert McKenzie

@steelers1288

“You kids out there. Do not try this without adult supervision.”

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Counter-Insurgent Homesteading

@HomesteadPrac

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The billowing fireball, perfect proportions, the balance of symmetry and texture. GOAT

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Qualia al Ghul

@shatterdvisage

The hype for the Oppenheimer explosion had me expecting this

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Radu Orban

@RaduOrban

Imitate? Probably already bidding for the righs on best videos.

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David Polansky

@polanskydj

Though Bay would make sure you had a couple guys in the foreground walking away from the explosion in slo-mo

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GFM

@GFM311

"Sorry about your rocket though. That sucks"

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Will Collier

@willcollier

I used to work flight test for USAF. One day we were watching an unmanned QF-4 take off from the TM room. It did a parabolic off EOR and went in pitot-tube first, BOOM! Dead silence in the room for a second… then thunderous cheers. (Nobody hurt, no damage other than the drone.)

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Ghost Writer House

@GWriter1911

Hahahaha. Michael Bay had rocket envy.

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@BES_5_FNR

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Bobson Dugnutt

@BobsonD99188991

No SFX department has ever gotten detonations right. They always leave out the shockwave. If the PEPCON explosion footage didn’t teach them what it’s supposed to look like, neither will this.