Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:03:56 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <a05200f09ba63ee3f5081@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <200302031346.34040.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> References: <A2B6C76C-371E-11D7-839A-000393A335A2@mac.com> <200302031346.34040.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>
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At 1:46 PM +1100 2003/02/03, JacobRhoden wrote:
> If what NASA is said in their speech earlier today is factual, then
> it could not have been a bomb, it was the external sensors which had
> the abnormal sensor readings.
At that altitude and speed, if it had been a bomb, there wouldn't
be time for anything to react or detect that it had been a bomb --
the breakup would have been way too fast.
> The internal ones all said fine. Although they did
> add a big disclaimer that the second report is usally not very
> accurate/correct, at the start/end of their press release!
There was a complaint about the tire pressure. The tires are
normally pressurized with Nitrogen, an inert gas. What if someone
had sabotaged them and pressurized them with Oxygen instead, which
would then act as fuel for any fire that might have been started?
Heck, the heat of re-entry alone could have been enough to have
gotten the tires hot enough to cause them to ignite, and if they did,
that could easily have taken the entire shuttle out in a millisecond.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
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