Another Space Shuttle Just Exploded

[biteme]

weird coincidences. I'm told that it blew up at 8:10 Central time and that the Twin Towers were also hit at exactly that time. Almost exactly 9:11 New York Time. There was in Israeli on board and CNN reported that debri fell over Palestine, Tx.

 

[DigitalKyle]

They said the thing that came off covering the tank has the consistency of styrofoam.

 

[manny78]

The "Columbia" to be precise. It blew up upon re-entry over the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, where there is now a State of Emergency being issued, due to falling debris, and caustic/poisonous chemicals used as propellents falling to Earth. Anyone in that area, please be carefull.

On a side note, has there ever been a more incompetant, wastefull(other than the DEA) Government Agency than NASA?? The Challenger. The Hubble Telescope. That shitty Mars Explorer, that never worked. Now this.

BTW you might take a look there:

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=206173&highlight=zerxes

 

[big_bad_buff]

DAMN, when did this happen? I feel for the peoples familys, but OH WELL. just a couple hundred million out of the tax payers pocket for nothing anyways. fuck space programs. they should all blow up until they stop doing them 50 times a year.

 

[Frackal]

Very sad....you feel space programs are unimportant BBB?

 

[Fonz]

challenger was covered on a documentary and they said it was a fault they knew about but didnt mention because they were afraid of the costs. i hope it wasnt something like this

The Challenger exploded b/c some retard forgot to take into account the bending moment of the STS governed with 2 boosters. They only measured it with one.

A friend of mine wrote his dissertation on the Challenger disaster and i read it thoroughly.

The current theory floating around the aerospace community is that the STS Columbia hit a piece of space junk up there in a deteriorating orbit. The Columbia's heat shield would have then been compromised and the STS would have then beem consumed by the heat generated by atmospheric friction.

Even with its computer controlled FOG radar, the Columbia would not have been able to manouver out of the way. Take into account it was going at 20,000mph during re-entry.

Fonz

 

[Fonz]

DAMN, when did this happen? I feel for the peoples familys, but OH WELL. just a couple hundred million out of the tax payers pocket for nothing anyways. fuck space programs. they should all blow up until they stop doing them 50 times a year.

The STS Columbia is a $2 Billion piece of hardware.

Fonz

 

[ThePolishHammer]

On a side note, has there ever been a more incompetant, wastefull(other than the DEA) Government Agency than NASA?? The Challenger. The Hubble Telescope. That shitty Mars Explorer, that never worked. Now this.

Nasa is the only progressive thing the united states has ever produced.

 

[big_bad_buff]

Very sad....you feel space programs are unimportant BBB?

of course they are, for bringing up satalites. and that's about it! but for testing dirt, or flying monkeys around. or flying high profile rich celebrity around is all BS. i don't know how many are sent up a year, but i know it's to many. atleast if there is no big purpose. not sending up one of these things would cure the homeless problem in america. or pherhaps you wouldn't have to pay taxes for a year or two. YES they are important for us as a nation to grow in technology. NO they shouldn't send so many up a year.

 

[Fonz]

of course they are, for bringing up satalites. and that's about it! but for testing dirt, or flying monkeys around. or flying high profile rich celebrity around is all BS. i don't know how many are sent up a year, but i know it's to many. atleast if there is no big purpose. not sending up one of these things one cure the homeless problem in america. or pherhaps you wouldn't have top pay taxes for a year or two. YES they are important for us as a nation to grow in technology. NO they shouldn't send so many up a year.

Sad part is you represent the views of most americans.

The micro-gravity environment on-board the Shuttle in orbit permits scientits to separate the proteins from Virus's.(Among other things)

The implications here are enormous. Dozens of crippling diseases could be cured.

The lack of foresight of most of the people here is just uncanny.

Fonz