Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch

Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by wymy on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:43PM (#16523244)

If it pitted the glass lense, wouldn't the solid exhaust penetrate the plastic bag? I'm surprised there was no other damage.

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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by tritium on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:22PM (#16523604)

I think it's about force and hardness, contrasted against elastic and inelastic collisions.

Either that, or maybe the caustic qualities have something to do with it? I'm not sure of the chemical aspects of the exhaust, but that part is also mentioned in conjunction with the debris accumulation.

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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by wutbrodo on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:03PM (#16523437)

I don't think that follows. Sand can pit a lens, right. And yet sand with the same force wouldn't penetrate a plastic bag.

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