http://www.russianspaceweb.com/proton_glonass49.html#culprit

Which way is up?

 

And this is why Borat can't have nice things.

 

Pointy arrows can mean anything. Maybe they though they pointed towards Earth. The word UP might have helped.

 

The word UP might have helped.

Not really. I get packages delivered by UPS with the UP arrow pointing sideways.

 

Video of the Proton crash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=YuiPvGQapcY

Everybody has a bad hair day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-3fjg4dYY

 

When I read the title, I immediately thought of this proton accident in Russia. Old but facinating. Apparently the wrong kind of 'proton'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

I didn't even know there was a wiki page about this! It was a story a researcher at the Brookhaven synchrotron loop told me about.