So... This just happened...

[tntristan12]

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Before anybody asks, no, I did not stage this! I was flying too low and too fast with FAR and my rocket busted due to aerodynamic stresses. Well, I used so much part clipping in my design that once things started ripping from one another, damn near every part in my ENTIRE SATURN V REPLICA exploded simultanously. Fortunately, the game was running so slow at that point that I had time to jam the abort button about a dozen times before I saw the LES activate. I was practically holding my breath as I watched the command pod clear the rapidly expanding cloud of shrapnel and burning rocket fuel. In fact, I cut it so close that the LES sheered off at the last moment, just as it ran out of fuel (half a second or so after activation). Fortunately, the command pod stabilized and the parachutes were undamaged. My crew splashed down into booster bay, unharmed. Not before nearly getting taken out by debris escaping the explosion at a very rapid pace.

This has been one of the most exciting things to happen to me in KSP for some time. I made Jebediah proud!

[Kieve]

*subtracts Rep* I don't think you're allowed to draw blueprints anymore, comrade...

In seriousness though, pretty awesome you managed to capture the destruction moment-by-moment like that. Would make a great .gif, too!

[Cydonian Monk]

Ah yes, that moment when you finally find a use for the Launch Escape System you spent so much time developing.

[FishInferno]

That is probably the best sequence of images I have ever seen. ever.

[Flixxbeatz]

Spectacular.

[Yukon0009]

Gif. Noaw.

[gmiddlemass]

Sweet! Probably the first time I've seen someone use the escape system in anger .

Well done capturing the moment and sharing it with us... have some rep!

[Halban]

Gif. Noaw.

One gif ready to go.

[Kieve]

One gif ready to go.

http://i.imgur.com/THaYZjp.gif

It's... so beautiful...

[tntristan12]

One gif ready to go.

http://i.imgur.com/THaYZjp.gif

Gorgeous! Thanks for that.

[lajoswinkler]

And this is, children, why we always pack launch escape system.

[JAD_Interplanetary]

One gif ready to go.

http://i.imgur.com/THaYZjp.gif

It's beautiful...no words...poetry...they should have sent a poet.