Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:14:08 -0500 From: Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> To: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com>, <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <C276E97B-3781-11D7-B48B-000393A335A2@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030202231612.B63914-100000@pogo.caustic.org>
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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. > <snip> --Larry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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