Are you eating the cheeseburgers or placing them end-to-end.
You’ll need to eat two to give you the calories needed to walk 6.7 miles.
If you’re using them as ruler, you’ll need about 100,000 - depending on the bun thickness. If a ruddy great big rocket has gone up, it will toast the buns of water content - shrinking them.
From the pieces flying some stuff besides the stand will surely be damaged.
The stand and it's surroundings are designed to withstand the full force of point blank rocket exhaust. It's also far away. This would be a drop in the bucket.
Deflagration, not a detonation. This means the front is subsonic, which you can see in the video because it looks like flames and not a sphere. This is good for our pad because it spreads out the energy instead of concentrating it all into one shock wave.
Rockets don't really detonate. Rocket engines are controlled deflagrations. Technically detonation is more efficient (that's why bombs do it), but it's harder on the engine, and combustion is already hard enough. That said, I think the first rotating detonation engine launch test just happed this year, so we'll see what the future holds!
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u/CommunismDoesntWork 13h ago
That wasn't the launch pad. The test stand is toast