LC39A Flame Trench - 28 April 2011 

well think of it like a bomb tech. It's either not going to go off, or its suddenly not you're problem anymore

Imagine being under the Saturn V.

I'm a lawyer and that made me spill my drink. Ha ha ha.

We'll even provide free popcorn and cola ;)

Joe Vignolo 😂😂😂😂😂

@Saddam Hussain Now it's president Biden haha- XD

Y'know what they say, "hell hath no fury like a flame trench scorched", or something like that.

Donald Thomas and one of the sprinklers malfunctioned on sts-124 and because of it the flame trench got damaged and it took four months for them to rebuild it.

it's hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Thank you genius.

@@chriss6356 here 3 years later to tell you you're a fucking idiot

Flat earthers.

People who hit the dislike button on accident while having a seizure due to the sheer awesomeness of this video

You're definitely right, it can't be anything else...

Super late reply, but yes, the flame trench usually needs repairing after every launch. It was actually given a full overhaul after the end of the shuttle program and now the actual flame deflector (the diagonal wall) is covered in steel plates, which are much cheaper to replace after a launch than tearing up and repouring the concrete each time. The actual trench itself has firebrick covering over concrete.

@@gastonbell108 I'll take a super late reply over no reply any day, thanks!

@@gastonbell108 I can only imagine the hell that exists in that flame trench in the first few seconds of liftoff.

So can Elon now. 🔥💥

If you were in the flame trench when the SRBs lit, they'd find your burnt carcass up in a cypress tree half a mile away from where you started.

haha thats not shower cubicle

@@marcoceloapilado3790 for Chuck Norris it is

If COVID-19 couldn't even kill Chuck Norris, then the mild shower you would experience in Chuck Norris' shower definitely won't.

Liked because I agree, this was a huge missed opportunity. Race the clock before getting burnt to ashes. Grind the rails down and half pipe it at the end...

Cuz it is surprisingly difficult to light an SRB. Plus they probably didn't put the final ignition charge in the SRBs until they were ready to retract the RSS.

If anyone is still reading these comments, I read awhile back that the dB level of the shuttle exhaust was "calculated" as 215 dB. 194.09 dB is as high as the actual dB level can go, as it becomes a shock wave (instead of a sound wave) above this level. I guess you'd never hear it as the calc'd dB level of 190 dB to 195 dB, 50% of human ear drums rupture. From 198 dB to 202 dB, it's fatal!

@@KSparks80 From somewhere between 185 and 200 dB its fatal. Human eardrums rupture at 15 dB

@@richardmillhousenixon Then how come concerts that are sometimes 125DB and louder don't instantly rupture our ears? I've been to tons of concerts and my ears are still fine.

@@PlatinumEagleStudios It was a typo, supposed to say 150dB

Yes

Especially if it lit just as you were going down that ramp! You'd end up like 20 miles away!

or, y'know, just melt the disk drives with a MAPP torch

The shiny spots are areas that need to be repaired - this was the old Apollo era deflector & trench from the shuttle program days. It was rebuilt in 2018 with steel plates on the deflector and new firebrick on the trench. The firebrick lasts for several launches, and the plates are cheaper to replace each time than having to dig out and repour the concrete.

Why does your last name sound like the results of someone having a seizure on an international keyboard?

Yeah... Look how he effed up our employment rate & job market... and what he did to our economy!.. and got us into wars with North Korea & Russia ! And raised our taxes ! .. and put minorities out of work ! And opened our borders to anyone who wants to come in uninvited ! MAGA !

@@DARisse-ji1yw And massively increased the national debt! And still hasn't released his tax returns! And groped a woman! And tried to get rid of affordable healthcare! And is a complete ass to anyone who dares to disagree with him! MAGA! /s

@@richardmillhousenixon Yup. Need a strong economy to pay down the debt, costs money to support a welfare state... noticed the Dems in Congress voted for it. Tax returns are private. Any wrong doing, I'm sure the IRS would have charged him.... like the went after non profit Conservative groups. He pulled a Bill Clinton ? With who? When ? Convicted no doubt ? Come up with another fake Russian scheme...... oh, wait !

@@DARisse-ji1yw Well lets see. Here's him talking about groping women in a 2005 recording. Sourced from NPR, which was the most unbiased source I could find. www.npr.org/2016/10/07/497087141/donald-trump-caught-on-tape-making-vulgar-remarks-about-women Here's Politifact's fact-check on Trump claiming that all claims of sexual assault made against him had been debunked (they haven't) www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/oct/20/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-reports-sexual-assault-him-have-/ Here's Wikipedia talking about the 25 times he's been accused of sexual misconduct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations And as for the tax returns, here's a pretty damn conclusive Wikipedia article about that, and how every single president since Nixon has released their tax returns annually, and that every single presidential candidate from the two major parties has released their returns since 1976 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_returns_of_Donald_Trump#:~:text=Before%20Trump%27s%20election%2C%20every%20elected,onward%20released%20their%20tax%20returns. I never said anything about the allegations of Russian involvement, so the fact that you brought it up says that you think there is something to defend, whereas if it were indeed true that no collusion occurred, there would be no need for you to bring it up if I did not either. Here's Newsweek talking about how the national debt has ballooned by over 5.2 Trillion since January 20th of 2017, where the debt had only increased by barely over 6 trillion over Obama's EIGHT YEARS in office. www.newsweek.com/national-debt-has-increased-52-trillion-during-trumps-3-years-president-1503864 It does cost money to support a welfare state. But here's the thing, we would have that money if people would finally get it through their heads that increasing taxes by just .1$ for the wealthy would pretty easily pay for that, not to mention the fact that it is far cheaper for the taxpayers to pay for preventative healthcare for all than it is for them to have to pay for the pricey ER bills for those who can't afford insurance and so have no choice but to let medical conditions become medical emergencies before they seek treatment. Next time, have some sources to back up your claims.