[SykkBoy]

Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Feb 1 2003, 02:02 PM
I think it's early to jump to a "NASA fuckup" theory too ... this is a real tragedy, obviously for the families of the crews and for the U.S., Israel, and India.

But you know, in any endeavor that "pushes the envelope", people get hurt. When men began exploring the sea, when men began going under the sea, and when people began to fly unanticipated things happend. What's amazing to me is that, with the complexity of the systems required to challenge space, so few have died. I don't mean to come across as indifferent or caviler, but falible man can't foresee every possibility ... these things will happen in spite of the herculean efforts we have made and will continue to make to prevent them.

Meanwhile, my personal conspiracy therory is to blame Elvis and Richard Nixon.

I'm not downplaying the tragedy at all, but I get upset when I read passages like this:

"On Jan. 16, shortly after Columbia lifted off, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and was believed to have hit the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard."