# Was Elon Musk right about the soviet Rocket engines?  Did they cause the Antares explosion today?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-elon-musk-right-about-the-soviet-rocket-engines-did-they-cause-the-antares-explosion-today/702811 "2014-10-29T01:13:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-elon-musk-right-about-the-soviet-rocket-engines-did-they-cause-the-antares-explosion-today/702811/61 "2014-11-06T13:29:09Z")

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> [@Svejk\_1](#):
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> Fuck yeah. They’ve had jeans in Russia for some time now, and FWIW Americans work much longer hours than Russians, always have. Besides, I enjoy listening to Bruce Springsteen, his raw lyrics and entrancing riffs are of universal appeal. The failed attempt at representing a Russian accent (necessitated, of course, by the fact that American engineers only speak American so that the Russian engineers have to switch to a language other than their own, only to have \*\*Stranger \*\*mock them for it) makes the whole thing even worse.

I believe Stranger was commenting, in a round-about way, on the unjustified criticisms of the Russian/Ukrainian engineers. I interpret what he said as a holding up to ridicule the stereotypes of Russian/Ukrainian engineers. I don’t think he was putting those folks down. Agree that his efforts to imitate the “accent” was over the top. The Russian scientists I know certainly don’t sound like that. Very, very smart people they are.

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**Author:** ![Habeed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@Habeed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habeed)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-elon-musk-right-about-the-soviet-rocket-engines-did-they-cause-the-antares-explosion-today/702811/62 "2014-11-06T14:08:51Z")

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> [@rbroome](#):
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> looks like Stranger is correct or almost correct in all these cites. Do you have any cites where he has been shown to be wrong?  
> Can you reference any of your posts where you contribute technical information to the discussion? I can’t find any.

See “MIRV missile defense”. You didn’t read my post, there. I acknowledge that about 6/10 of those cites are correct. I merely am saying that Stranger’s arrogance, where he _instantly_ responds to almost any technical post with a “know it all” answer that is sometimes wrong, is quite irritating at times.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-elon-musk-right-about-the-soviet-rocket-engines-did-they-cause-the-antares-explosion-today/702811/63 "2014-11-06T22:46:03Z")

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> [@Habeed](#):
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> is quite irritating at times.

It can be irritating, but the only thing I’ve known him to be wrong about is the location of the retro rockets on the Gemini spacecraft. 🙂

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