[ale] OT: Space Shuttle Columbia

[christopher at bergeron.com (Christopher Bergeron)]

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Jeff Hubbs wrote:

|been looking at either a Cape runway landing or a water ditch.  The
|problem is that there is now no way to know how damaged the tiles are.

This is a key statement.  They can't just perform a spacewalk under the 
shuttle.  They couldn't check the titles, and as such everything turned 
in to a [tragic] afterthought.

It's a shame; and I'm not justifying it, but it's a risky business for 
reasons exactly like this.  Every pioneer faces extreme risks...

It's a terrible loss, because those very pioneers are some of the most 
skilled/well-rounded Americans...

- -CB


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