Canon PowerShot S90
ƒ/4
6 mm
1/30
80
Look at me, I’m in tatters!
I’m a shattered
Shattered
I finally pried apart the compressed hairball that was the avionics bay of my V-2 rocket after it came in ballistic, burying itself into the Black Rock Desert playa (photos).
Metal rods bent like spaghetti. Disemboweled Duracells. LCX circuit board components shaved clean off. A Jackson Pollock of circuitry.
The HCX flight computer sheared in half, and its SD card cage snapped off. But the data survived! I was amazed that the SD mini card recording the flight data survived the massive forces of hitting ground at about 500 MPH, like the black box on a plane. (In contrast, the microSD card inside a metal HD camera snapped in half.)
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