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Yes, all on the right track. A mix of a hydrocarbon base (the dirtyand probably oily rat), and LOX (liquid oxygen) produces a very unstable substance similar to nitroglycerin. Any ignition source, even a physical shock can set it off. Most of the rats in the areaa were probwly coated in oil and other contaminates from crawling arund on outdoor test stands etc.

Anoither incudent with LOX occured when a LOX Truck delivery driver knocked a verty large open end wrench off the fender of his truck. Apparently there was a slight leak dripping from somewhere where the wrench must have hit the asphault. Boom, we never found the driver and only pieces of the truck. Extremely shock sensitive. They replaced all the truck unloading pads with concrete, and it got cleaned regularly. I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_BM...

Stupid is as Democrats do.
And Trump calls them crazy too.

Me dino really liked it, Dobrien!

Doesn't take much energy to overcome the barrier with with pure O2. Probably just the thing hitting the wall, and a little event right there, spreading immediately. I'm just assuming based on Snezzy's example. Maybe there was oil on the wall or the rat, or some left over, poorly cleaned hypergolic's

Yeah, lot of my soccer buddies kids graduated during COVID. What a mess! My kids got done before.

I thought about that but I was wondering what the ignition source possibilities were.

Saw that, "IT" IS Stupid, unlike them!

How do you get away with that?
That Liberal Women Gov. of Calif. got no balls but you'd never know it!

Indeed. The best analogy I can think of was nailed by Jesus Christ 2000 years ago when he referred to the Scribes and Pharisees as whitewashed graves. All shiny and pretty on the outside, but dead on the inside. You don't even have to be religious to see that is contemporary American usage of the word liberal in place of whitewash in reference to lefties and Marxists. Newspeak in high gear. Oh my, I hope I haven't committed a thought crime here! LOL!

Submission from Dobrien: https://youtu.be/cjqyRoY0TrA

I wonder why John Drury Clark didn't include that rat story in his famous book, "Ignition!"

Rocket science is inherently exciting, even if nothing goes wrong. Things sometimes DO go wrong, as we all know. The Soviet fuel choice of the hypergolic combination of red fuming nitric acid (RFNA) and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) contributed to the dreadful catastrophe at Baikonur in 1960.

My grandson has had his share of problems. I can't emphasize enough how badly Covid restrictions f*cked these kids over. Some worse than others, and he is still not recovered 100% His younger sister is actually smarter than he is and is currently in college in Manchester, UK. We'll see how that goes.

I just had fried chicken liver in Charleston, SC last week. So good!!!

... engineer, looking at his feet, blushing ...

Nope, pretty damn good!
Although I knew two people who got 1600's when I was in HS. Neither one went on to significant college careers. They were all memorization and algorithmic tricks. One went from physics, to astrophysics, to foreign languages.
She was the one who said, when I grabbed two red wires to set up a motor experiment for her: "But negative electricity won't flow through a red wire, right?"

A remarkable capability to ignore reality, both economic and physical, imo.

Combustible carbon-compounds in the rat and oxygen

Trying to wrap my 80+ year old brain around what contributed to initiate the explosion. Please Illuminate me before I wear it out.

BTW, my grandson scored 1540. Not too shabby.

Excellent! My hubby was a National Merit Scholar runner up. My main romantic interest in High School was also a National Merit Scholar. Unfortunately, he lost his senses and became a liberal. What a waste! Other than that, though: i only hae one thing to say about the topic: brains are sexy!

In the early 60's I worked at the Santa Susan Mountain test facility for Rocketdyne.  At lunch one day someone caught a rat and dipped it in liquid nitrogen, freezing it almost instantly.  They then threw the rat against a wall, and it just completely shattered like it was made of crystal.  The practice continued for a while, until someone at Rocketdyne's facility at Edwards AF Base in the desert did the same thing.  The problem was that they dipped their rat into liquid oxygen.  When thrown against the wall of a building, it blew a hole in the wall "big enough to drive a Mac Truck through".  The practice ceased right then and there.  Experience is still the best teacher (except of course, in politics).

As much as I WISH these things actually "ended his career," wel all know liberals have the memory capability of a drunken flea, PLUS they simply Do. Not. Care. If it's not Trump, they're voting for it, whoever "it" is.

IMO, a so-called "lib" these days is not free at all.
To be an enslaved conformist would be much more like it.

But never lose his/hers/its nasty cackle.
Always riding a broom wouldn't hurt either.

Yah, it makes the vehicle lighter. (that's was intenend to be a joke). But in actuallity it is also true.

In reality, I've found that most of the liberals (leftists) I know are really conservatives, seems like they just won't admit it.. They deep down beleive in most of the same things conservatives beleive in, but they are just too (something) to be able to express or admit it. They want everyone to "just get along", but yet just won't even listen to reason.