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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KS-ypy88fY&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div"]YouTube - Space Shuttle Destroyed - 2009.[/ame]

Scary video, lets hope this never becomes of Endeavour or any of the shuttles. Why must it always be Endeavour getting toasted?
 
Wow, that is scary. At first I thought it was Atlantis, but the torn off wing says '..ndeavour', Lets hope the crew is on the space station safe and sound for a rescue mission.
 
How could that happen in reality?

What seems to be hinted at by the audio in the video is a collision with a Soyuz capsule. The collision would have to be at a fairly high relative velocity to do that kind of damage though, which is unlikely to happen in any scenario where any kind of safety procedures at all are being used.

I could see a less-dramatic but still fatal collision involving a smaller meteoroid or piece of space debris, though. But a Soyuz and a Shuttle would either be in orbits that were too close to have any kind of significant relative velocity, or else in orbits that didn't cross, and both would be tracked very carefully in either case. In the hypothetical case that a Soyuz and a shuttle actually did collide at high relative velocity, though, it could do that kind of damage to the shuttle.

In any case, the video itself was very well done.
 
What seems to be hinted at by the audio in the video is a collision with a Soyuz capsule. The collision would have to be at a fairly high relative velocity to do that kind of damage though, which is unlikely to happen in any scenario where any kind of safety procedures at all are being used.

I could see a less-dramatic but still fatal collision involving a smaller meteoroid or piece of space debris, though. But a Soyuz and a Shuttle would either be in orbits that were too close to have any kind of significant relative velocity, or else in orbits that didn't cross, and both would be tracked very carefully in either case. In the hypothetical case that a Soyuz and a shuttle actually did collide at high relative velocity, though, it could do that kind of damage to the shuttle.

In any case, the video itself was very well done.
The audio really has nothing to do with the video.

The holes in the craft had scorch/burn marks around them, which isn't how it would really look unless there was something burning.

The holes came from all directions.
 
As Hielor hints at, the damage visible in that video does not correspond to what you'd expect to see in a collision between two space vehicles. Aside from the large number of holes, the damage looks more like that caused by an explosion than by a collision. You'd expect to see a lot less large parts than that in a high speed accident.
 
It can be ruled out that it was caused by a high velocity impact. There is no star-shaped pattern around the holes, which would mean the holes are created by internal shock fronts. Also, the holes at the opposing side of the impact would be mostly rectangular, following the welds of the aluminum structure.

It can also be ruled out that it was caused by a single or a small series of explosions. It would not only have been many small explosions to create the required damage marks, there is also a sign of a strong shrapnel effect coming from a point to the left side and midships.

The damage patterns do also not follow the lines of known structure weaknesses, they are extremely random and look rather like somebody crushed a monolithic block of foam into many small pieces. Instead of tile separation, you have craters covering multiple tiles, and the front section with the very robust crew cabin has a fracture going right through it - in reality the weakest point is a bit towards the payload bay, around the position of the fuel cells.

This is Armageddon style shuttle damage.
 
It can be ruled out that it was caused by a high velocity impact. There is no star-shaped pattern around the holes, which would mean the holes are created by internal shock fronts. Also, the holes at the opposing side of the impact would be mostly rectangular, following the welds of the aluminum structure.

The section actually hit by a high-speed impactor the size of a Soyuz would be totally obliterated, so forget star-shaped holes.

Still, You're right that the damage patterns are not consistent with reality, however, I think that about the only thing that can do that magnitude of damage to the Shuttle on-orbit, albeit with different patterns, would be a collision. I can't imagine anything explosive a shuttle would have onboard in orbit that would do damage that extensive.
 
Sudden ignition of all the OMS fuel (which has somehow magically mixed with oxidiser) could certainly rip the two wings off. The damage to the front is very unrealistic though.
 
Sudden ignition of all the OMS fuel (which has somehow magically mixed with oxidiser) could certainly rip the two wings off. The damage to the front is very unrealistic though.

It wouldn't. The OMS and the forward RCS are separated modules, bolted literally on the very solid structure of the shuttle, there is no OMS fuel inside the wings at all. All OMS fuel is inside the OMS pods, and there is a more or less solid wall between OMS pod and aft compartment.
 
Very well made video. You could show this in the morning news and people would believe :speakcool:
 
REMOVED by Moderator....., you space nerds! Watch the video and enjoy how well it's done for once :lol::rofl:
 
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Maybe its meteroite damage. Lots of rocks heading towards earth each day, maybe a big one hit or several hit the shuttle after undocking.
Armageddon style indeed, but its certainly a possibility. Even micrometeorites can do damage.
 
Maybe its meteroite damage. Lots of rocks heading towards earth each day, maybe a big one hit or several hit the shuttle after undocking.
Armageddon style indeed, but its certainly a possibility. Even micrometeorites can do damage.

looks like more than one asteroid did that. Maybe one hit the OMS engines too and ripped off the wings. Certainly a bad day though.
Very well made video.
 
The video is very well done and has a well crafted athmosphere to it.
Especialy since it is all done in 2D!

And the fact that it was created by "TheFakingHoaxer" makes argueing how unrealistic it is quite funny to watch :P
 
Nice video! I'm surprised that this hasn't make it to some news channel yet.
 
Very well done, if a bit unsettling. :P
 
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