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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Re:Don't watch FNC

[cyranoVR]

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???