From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 6:14:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D9137B405 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:14:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-89.apple.com [17.250.248.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438F943F9B for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lomion@mac.com) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h13EE9rJ017618 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([67.98.154.9]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H9QKVK00.G1P; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:14:08 -0800 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:14:08 -0500 Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: Brad Knowles , John Martinez , , To: "f.johan.beisser" From: Larry Sica In-Reply-To: <20030202231612.B63914-100000@pogo.caustic.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 02:30 AM, f.johan.beisser wrote: > On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Larry Sica wrote: > >> 1. NASA was prepared to deal with an accident this time. Challenger >> they were caught with their pants down. >> 2. Everything points to a malfunction/failure not a design flaw. > > everything so far. > > Challenger was a design flaw, found to late. > > the shuttles are past their original useful life expectancy. we'll see > more "minor" failures before another spectacular one. > They are not. They are designed for 100 flights. Columbia was on number 28. >> Wont happen, this is way to important to NASA, and the rest of the >> world. This is not a US project, but a world project. > > this project is more important to the US than anyone else. while ESA > and > our Russian friends are involved, we're the ones that've invested the > most > time and money in to it. > Still doesn't mean it is not important. Consider that the US is the primary way materials are going up. >> Yes. It wasn't a terrorist is my gut feeling. To have it blow up on >> re-entry 200,000 feet up. They couldnt do it with a missile - we'd >> have seen it. As for a bomb, from todays conference it doesn't sound >> like that. > --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message