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all you texas guys, did u see and hear it?

what a drag for another accident!

what was that big roar shaking like.

a very awful thing to happen.

I slept thru it. All i know is what was on the news. My guess is structual failure. It's an old piece of equipment and it can only take so much. I guessed correctly on the o ring failure of the challenger disaster. But i figured the problem was in a fuel line, not as part of a booster.

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What do Water, Electricity and Humans have in common... They all travel the path of least resistance.

yah it's all on the news U.S. officials say there was no terrorist foulplay so that's good. but other than that as far as i know it was just a mechanical failure.

later

E

i am a little slow and dont get cable television.....what happened???

It came apart over Texas as it was comming into land in Florida. There's debris all over east Texas. People are showing up at hospitals with burns because they picked up pieces of the shuttle.

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Previous setup: 4.1 Buick V-6/TH 350
Current setup: 400 Small Block Chevy V-8/TH 350
9" ford rear end/short bed/blue
What do Water, Electricity and Humans have in common... They all travel the path of least resistance.

just talked to a friend of mine he came out for awhile. he said this morning he was leaving the store and could see it out to the east he seen it "hauling ass" he said and then it started breaking apart he said he didnt know the shuttle was landing today so he didn't know what the hell it was.

later

E

BTW, the "big boom" that their talking about on TV is nothing new to people that have been around when the shuttle lands. It always makes a sonic boom which shakes all the windows as it's coming in.

Just thought it was funny how people being interviewed were talking about the "boom" as though it was part of the accident or the sound of the shuttle exploding.

I was in Vegas this weekend and actually didn't find out about it until this morning when we happened to turn on the news.

I hate that fact that all of those people died. None of them deserved it. Unfortunately, it seems that the sequence of events that lead up to the destruction could have been avoided. It's just too bad. There very nature of the shuttle's launch and landing procedure makes small problems become large deadly ones real quick.

Yes it's unfortunate it turned out the way it did. There is always the risk of catastrophic falure every time anyone is sent into space. There is no back up plan to bring them home safely. But the idea of being able to go into space far outweighs the risk. If they had a shuttle ready to go today, and there was an open seat, I along with millions of other people would jump at the chance to take the voyage in to space. All thats left is to find out what went wrong, make the appropiate measures to insure that it wont happen again. The space program will not end . There's too much to be learned out there. The Columbia crew knew this all too well. God bless the crew of Columbia.

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Previous setup: 4.1 Buick V-6/TH 350
Current setup: 400 Small Block Chevy V-8/TH 350
9" ford rear end/short bed/blue
What do Water, Electricity and Humans have in common... They all travel the path of least resistance.

knowing what they know now, the next time they see some tiles come off the fuel tank and smack the crap out of the wing- cause I seen it and thats what it did- they will leave the people up and launch some other craft to pick thenm up. The space program HAS to have an emergency plan for that.

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