The CBC report says twice, a little hysterically, that it isn't terrorism, there's no indication that it might be terrorism, but NASA have never lost a craft coming in for landing and there was an Israeli astronaut aboard.
There's no weapon on earth that could shoot down something that was moving that fast, from that high. I think it's understandable for people's minds to leap there, but there really is no way.
wcg says that people in the space science industry called Columbia "the penguin," because "it's a big black-and-white bird that can't fly." It had more maintenance problems than any other shuttle. As horrific and tragic as the accident was, it seems reasonably consistent with the shuttle's history of malfunctions.
Won't stop the government from taking away more of your freedoms and liberties. TWA 800 was an accident, too, but it was still used as justification for the photo ID requirement for boarding airplanes.
Reassure me that the thing falling off on take-off, that wasn't considered significant enough to abort, but which might have damaged the shielding, couldn't have been sabotaged?
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There's no weapon on earth that could shoot down something that was moving that fast, from that high. I think it's understandable for people's minds to leap there, but there really is no way.
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To be specific, 40 miles up and moving at 4200 miles per hour. No, this had to have been an accident.
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