12-11-2009, 03:30 PM
After talking with a friend, here's the most mundane explanation I could come up with: it's a Russian rocket all right. But instead of being a failure, it's a success! They are showing off their new technology for pinpoint guidance and control of a rocket or other flying object. It's a military air-show so that people start to respect Russian weaponry and military capabilities.
It's certainly not a failure in the normal sense. Things don't fail so beautifully and regularly, just like random mutations don't actually produce successful ecological adaptations and more complex ordered biological systems.
It's certainly not a failure in the normal sense. Things don't fail so beautifully and regularly, just like random mutations don't actually produce successful ecological adaptations and more complex ordered biological systems.