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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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I hope micheals finally gone to bed, because he is one insomanic fucknut.
I hope kde 3.1 compiles soon, it sucks to use lynx+twm.
How much time do we need before someone blame it on... ?
Right now, your neighborhood amateur scientist/genius, with the right funding -- notably, Saudi millions -- could build a rocket much like Carmack did.
Loaded with a EMP bomb -- which Discover magazine said could be built for $400 out of ordinary parts -- it could seriously hit the rocket ship.
Calculating where and when it would be would be easy, as it's not classified, and it's just a matter of math.
Al-Qaeda is known for its audacity and boldness in killing Americans and Israelis, and this is clearly terrorism. In fact, I just heard on TV as I was typing this the Department of Defense is mobilizing some emergency forces somewhere.
I think we may have a new record-breaker here...
Your kids won't let YOU change the channel? What kind of parent are you, and what kind of kids are you raising?
Look assholes, if you're going to post stuff that's in poor taste or just nasty, why don't you use your names instead of posting anonymously? Have some respect for those that have done more than the sum total of anything you will accomplish in your sad lives.
Need Another Seven Astronauts...
Need Another Shuttle Also.
ah, tasteless challenger jokes. i knew there would come a use for them once more.
Fuck them.
No, Fuck you. Fuck your parents for producing such a fucking asshole. Fuck their parents for producing the people who produced such a fucking asshole. You can feel free to continue all the way up your family tree until you get to the roots.
I pray for the crew members and their families. I am not minimizing the gravity of the incident. I am only questioning what this news item has to do with slashdot! On Sep. 11, 2001, at 8:12am, slashdot posted news of the WTC and pentagon being hit by planes, and CmdrTaco made a point of this type of news being an exception (to be posted on this site).5 8&mode=thread
He said "Normally I wouldn't consider posting this on Slashdot, but I'm making an exception this time" http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/13142
This news item doesn't strike me as being news for nerds.
A Buba Booey got through when he went to take a phone call.....
Highly inappropriate, don't you think?
Please mod parent -1 illiterate
Now we all know the real meaning of "breaking news".
How about, 'never'? Get your countries straight.
Though, I notice you tripped over the ever-so-innocently planted seed word in the CNN story. Nice job. Twitch a synapse or two and let the viewer think they are making their own connections. (Not too tough, thanks to the inch-diameter dots C-freeking-NN provided us with to connect. "Ramon, 48, took part in the 1981 bombing of the nuclear reactor in Iraq." Gee. Thanks guys. What RESPONSIBLE reporting. Not leading in any way. Could they be any more blatant? Jerks.)
But there will be time for all of that garbage later. Right now, one ought to respectfully hold one's hat and wish the innocent and the brave a fond farewell.
-Fantastic Lad
Your tree has roots at the top? You're in space already, I guess.
You dumbass.
Linux was running on an embedded computer soley used for communication, not to control any of the systems on board. Such a toy would hardly cause the shuttle to explode into a fireball.
You are the worst kind of fucking troll. Normally, I don't even care about trolls, or the linux zealots on the other side, but now you are using NASA's disaster as feed for your trolling with absolutely no rationalized basis for your argument.
Dipshit.
I'm sorry, but is this really the time for petty squabling about the most politically correct wording for a sentiment that everybody is feeling right now?
It's amazing how people are brought together by tragedy though... I was in an Electronics store when the news broke, and people seemed to just stop buying stuff, and watch the the TVs to find out what was going on.
I'm sorry that I misconstrued your intent. While the general population of /. tends to be very pro-space exploration, they also tend to be fairly anti-U.S. gov., particularly when it comes to the DoJ and DoD. I mistook you for one of the anti-DoD'ers.
Many apologies. I'm a bit broken up over this whole thing. I was home sick on Jan 28th, 1986 and watched the Challenger disintegrate live on TV. This whole incident brought those memories back in a flash. Sorry that I rushed to judgement.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
...Nevermind the fact that this "civilian" (give me a break!!) country is ruled by an overbearing madman who has used weapons of mass destruction without regret in the past. Disregard the fact that this same dictator kills and/or tortures any opposition sometimes torturing children in front of their parents as well. Forget the fact that he is harboring terrorists and has not provided any evidence of having destroyed his large stockpile of weapons. Ignore the facts and let's just wait and see if he will comply. What's another 12 years anyway? I'm sure he won't sell any weapons to terrorists....
Let's just have America crawl back into a hole and disregard the rest of the world. If there are problems, we will pretend that they don't exist. Look at how well that's worked in the past (WWII ring any bells)?
Bush is a strongly religious man, and it's sad that you can't see past your disagreement and take his words for what they are...