Columbia Coverage

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 5, 2003 @03:30AM from the thunder-on dept.

ke4roh writes "Space.com offers a list of questions and answers about the events and hardware surrounding Columbia's destruction Saturday. They address suspected causes, foam, tile, and some of the alternatives had NASA known the ship would not be able to re-enter the atmosphere." viewstyle writes "PC Magazine has a pack of stuff put together on the space shuttle accident, as they recognized the fact that the space program inspired a lot of tech people in general. What's pretty cool is the section written by a guy there who worked on the computer components in the shuttle." And naturally, the idea of a space elevator is back in vogue again.

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Re:Temperature detectors... by tx_mgm · 2003-02-05 05:03 · Score: 0, Flamebait

first:
a one in fifty chance of total failure isn't exactly stellar

shortly after:
Those things are flying gas bombs that we lob into orbit, and then try to bring back in one piece. That we have a working re-usable spacecraft at all is still impressive

so.....to recap what you've said:
1. 1 in 50 failure rate is bad
2. 1 in 50 failure rate is miraculous

thanks. i could have gotten better sensational, catch-phrase-riddled, bullshit from any news station.

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