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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.
Was there not an Israeli astronaut on that Shuttle?
P.S. Australians please spare the jokes untill tomorrow. No student homes or workshops were destroyed, but people actually died here.
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And imagine if Bush still feels stupid and still will go to war, that will hold on the space program for sure too.
You are a bad parent. If you can't bring yourself to override your children in a case such as this, you're going to raise a bunch of self-centered losers. Consider becoming an adult. Children need that in a parent.
So now we really never know if ants can sort tiny screws in space.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Why can't they redesign it ? Because Bush wants money go to War instead of Science. This is illogical indeed.
He was an astronaut. Just like the rest of them. He was up there for the same reasons they were, not because he was some brown-skinned terrorist that was out to destroy a handful of Americans in as spectacular a way as possible.
The fact that people like you still exist in this day and age disgusts me beyond belief.
Just because there's been a tragedy doesn't mean that news concerning a war (which will be fought; if you think war is anything but inevitable, you're deluded) is irrelevant.
Well, I think it's fucking suspicious that a news organization that parrots everything the Bush administration says did not have anything on air about an administration Official saying that's its "highly unlikely that the accident is due to terrorism."
Instead it's more crap about Saddam. Ever hear of subliminal messages? Anyway, I know war is inevitable but my feeling (and apparently the feeling of every other news channel except FNC) is that for a few brief hours the looming war is what's irrelevant.
I wonder...can you take your mind off the fucking war for even an hour or two to mourn this tradgedy???
How long before we see Palestinians dancing and singing in the streets on CNN?
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mod this insensitive asshole down
who a gives rat what your favorite shuttle is.
7 astronauts have died.
I am offended that you would presume to tell me how I should feel or respond to this incident. (Mind you, I've only read the +4 comments up to this point.) If I want to laugh to feel better, then I will laugh. If I was the age I was during the first shuttle explosion, I would participate in space shuttle jokes. But you have no right to tell me how to feel.
take a trip down the slaughterhouse & watch some of the billion animals killed very year by factory farming, that should turn a few things.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
40 people died today in a train wreck in Zimbabwe, but it is of course not as tragic as these 7 people dying. Obviously a shuttle disaster is more sensational an even more horrifying disaster in Afrrica. It will be a long time if ever before this country starts looking at "people" and not "Americans".
And a planted bomb? Remember, they Al Quida have excelled at using the lowest-tech to do the greatest harm. The thing was just gliding, main engines off, minutes from landing. And then it blows up.
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thank you for setting that guy straight
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interestingly, the jews are a culture of victims. the whole country of israel is a string of one national tragedy after another.
my point: have you by chance peked into one of the israeli news tickers? This is like some kind of banner of strength apparently. "Rmember the Alamo" all over again. "Ramon: National Hero" is the word of the day.
Both Bush and Sharon are pledging to not back down in the pursuit of continued space travel.