The video linked at the bottom of the page purports to show the US Navy blowing up a satellite. The explosion looks like conventional explosions on Earth, rather than the extremely fast, bright, sphere-shaped explosions that this page suggests that it should have produced. The actual explosion in the video reminded me very much of the Challenger explosion, which I believe was within the Earth's atmosphere. This satellite would have been above the atmosphere, in space, yet explodes in the same manner.
If nothing less, that video being linked at the end of the page renders everything said on the page above it enormously confusing.
Edited by Heather
That doesn't address the issue though.
If you have a planet sized spacship with an oxygen atmosphere, for example, is it unrealistic for it to explode?
He's just this guy, you know?
Uh, is this trope so unrealistic? If a ship blows up, it's atmosphere would escape, meaning the explosion would take place in an atmosphere, albeit a very short lived and thin one.
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