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by pantalaimon 27 days ago
The methane is not mixed with oxygen when it's still in the rocket tank, so it can't all explode - most of it will just burn off.

It's still a big boom, but not anywhere close to what world occur with optional mixing.

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The side of the rocket failing appears to have allowed a lot of that mixing to occur after the initial fire.