Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:53:44 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <3E3EACA8.D3C4310F@mindspring.com> References: <A2B6C76C-371E-11D7-839A-000393A335A2@mac.com> <200302031346.34040.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <a05200f09ba63ee3f5081@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > 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. I've personally thought of six ways that this could have been done intentionally, including your "tire inflation gas substitution" trick. All of them are extremely low probability. Very few highly intelligent or comepetent people are sociopathic enough to become terrorists/snipers/etc.. The one highly competent sniper was the Texas University tower sniper, and he had a brain tumor; otherwise, people who are good at what they do generally don't go off the deep end. The bad guys do not need a handbook on how to think about getting around the (obvious, after analysis) holes in security and other protocols at NASA, or airports, nor do they need suggestions on how to perform their acts successfully. Thanks, -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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