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With that sort of thinking in mind no one would make any failsafes. "It's fucked anyway" is a constrictive and dangerous way of designing things, and likely to introduce even more failure points.



No need to overthink this.

There’s really no point in designing additional failsafes into a launch vehicle when it disintegrates which can happen for a variety of reasons beyond anyone’s control — RUD is really just an euphemism for an explosion.


It's a reason against failsafes that only work against a RUD.

It doesn't mean there are no failsafes against RUDs or to protect the crew and equipment in case a RUD occurs.




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