Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas

An anonymous reader writes "NASA lost communication with space shuttle Columbia shortly before its scheduled landing on Saturday. It was unclear whether there were any other problems." Various news programs have been showing debris falling from the sky, and NASA has declared an emergency.Update: 02/01 15:29 GMT by H : Confirmation has come - the shuttle has broken up over Texas while coming in for landing Florida.

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Not funny in any way

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I don't know about anybody else, but if even one post about this gets modded Funny, I will walk away from SlashDot for good.

If the posts so far are any indication of the number of Genuine Assholes who frequent this site, it's a lost cause anyway.

This is not funny in any way.

Re:I heard it

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Well, _obviously_ it had to be the work of terrorists, now we just have to figure out who to bomb in response!

Probably Iraq! ...or Afghanistan, or maybe, er... what's that other one? You know, the one with all the brown-skinned people that worship a different god? Evil, I tell you!! Evil!!

* I'm being sarcastic. Most likely this was some kind of mechanical failure and I'm sure I'll feel really bad for the families as soon as this sinks in a little. I'm still in shock.