Shuttle Crashes

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 8:44 pm

|darc| wrote:
SuperRoy wrote:yeah, CNN is a very reliable source.
You sure about that?

*sigh*

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:10 pm

Oh my god that is funny.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:22 pm

|darc| wrote:

Nice to know that the tradition of well-informed media coverage is being upheld.

Morons.

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:23 pm

|darc| wrote:

Lol!

That's classic... did anyone happen to see that live?

Prophet][ · Post by **Prophet][** » Wed Feb 05, 2003 9:34 pm

It would have been even funniers if the reported went

"Today the space shuttle Columbia crashed into Earth travelling at nearly 18 times the speed of light. This means it was travelling at roughtly 5,400,000,000 metres a seconds."

Post by **I.M. Weasel** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 3:06 am

BlackAura wrote:What would be the point in a terrorist trying to destroy a shuttle anyway? The idea is that you try to take out something that, while it may not be large, will cause the maximum possible damage to your target and thier state of mind, and in a fairly easy way. You don't go after things that are well-guarded or too massive or difficult, because it's usually not very effective.

Basically, sabotaging a shuttle would be very difficult to do - you'd have to sneak in undetected, and know it's systems well enough to be able to cause a small, undetectable problem that'll suddenly become a major problem on re-entry, and sneak out again without being detected. And all it might get you is the destruction of one shuttle, and the deaths of the crew which, in terms of wide-scale devestation and panic, is not going to have a major impact. I apologise if that sounds somewhat cold, but the effect would be far too small for the effort involved in making it happen. In other words, is not typical terrorist activity.

Pretty much anything could have caused it though. Loose tiles on the nose, angle of decent was too steep, coming in too fast, a lump of debris from something like a satellite.

What happened to the people on board? Nothing I've seen mentioned anyone apart from the Israeli astronaut, and it wasn't clear what happened to him either. I assume that they didn't make it?

As far as,terrorism goes if it were sabotage they could have just unscrewed a screw or something small.
The hardest part of the shuttle mission is re-entry, where everything needs to be perfect and a small problem could mean failure.

Post by **|darc|** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 4:39 am

404NotFound wrote:*sigh*

Jeez dude.. I am just joking... it IS real, though.

Narcissus wrote:
Lol!

That's classic... did anyone happen to see that live?

My friend did