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Columbia Coverage

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Space Elevator? by kir · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, how the hell do you get down if there's a fire? The "Space Stairs"*?.

    * (c)2003 kir

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  2. Re:Enough already by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Funny

    "As for that retarded idea of space elevator, let's repeat for the zillionth time: It won't work. It's just an occupation of "acaedmics" to keep them occupied with such "ideas".

    Yes, it is exactly the same as the other huge time-wasters some idiot academics spent time on in the past, such as:
    - That improbable heavier-than-air flying machine
    - The ludricous notion that one could reach India by sailing west around the world instead of east...
    - That silly experiment of using steam to turn wheels and do useful work.
    - Trying to figure out the course of planets by assuming they revolve around the sun, where any fool can see that everything revolves around the earth.

    Seriously, with a mentality like that we'd still be hunting wooly mammoths with sticks.

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  3. doh by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    "it's feasible to talk of building a meter-wide "ribbon" that would start on a mobile ocean platform at the equator, west of Ecuador, and extend 62,000 miles up into space."

    I'm not gonna be able to stand that much Space Elevator music!

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  4. Re:Top 5 reasons to become a television news ancho by EyesOfNostradamus · · Score: 2, Funny
    You honestly believe that the moon is twenty-five pentillion billion miles away from Earth, and that a rickety old spaceship normally travels about 3 to 4 times the speed of light

    3 to 4 times? No, eighteen!

  5. CNN's coverage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    here is a snippet of CNN's false coverage: http://www.o-t.us/upload/guest/cnnsucks.jpg