More on Columbia

RodeoBoy writes "It seems that regardless of what NASA and Boeing wants the public to believe there are still questions about damage to the shuttle's left wing. Some Boeing engineers have raised concerns that proper analysis of the damage was not done at the time, due to changes and cutbacks in Boeing. It is also coming out that more than one chunk of foam might have hit and damaged the wing. With Boeing having some financial troubles and NASA under public scrutiny again, what is the future of the space shuttle program..."

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Re:Say what?

[Anonymous Coward]

With apologies to The Onion:

Bush on NASA: Saddam must be overthrown

It must be terrorists

[roman_mir]

who put that foam there. We must start the compaign to ban all foam from the United States of America. Think of the children! When, I ask you, when will the maddness end? How did it happen that we, as a country, did not see this one coming? All the products that could be potentially dangerous and/or used in a terrorist attack. First the trench coats, then the box cutters, the nail filers, the pointy umbrelas, the McDonald, and now the foam! We must open our eyes as a society. We must protect the children at all cost! The land of the Free and the home of the Brave must be cleared of all the dangerous items so that our children could go outside again. (wait, what am I saying?) Ban the outside! For the childrens' sake! It's dangerous out there, lets ban the outside!

Re:It must be terrorists

[dvk]

We know who put the unsafe foam there.
Eco-"aware" liberals did, because old, reliable one contains miniscule amount of the stuff that the Holy Ones of Enviromental Protection Order deemed too unsafe to exist. I'm too tired to go find the actual reference but you can dig up on Google news, I'm sure, if you want the details.

-DVK

Re:Where is the left wing?

[mattfish]

I bet they have found the wing. They just say they havent to cover up more information that they dont want us to see.

It WAS terrorism!

[myowntrueself]

"It wasn't foam, it was Saddam!"
Dead right!

The foam is probably made from petrochemicals,
these were refined from crude oil,
probably originating in the middle east,
maybe even from Iraq!

You don't have to be Donald Rumsfield to put two and two together and blame Iraq for this heinous atrocity!!!!! :-P

Either that or the shuttle was shot down by an Al Quaida operated railgun lent to Osama by Saddam and fired from Cuba! (those railguns have long range you know).

Honest.

Re:Where is the left wing?

[DNS-and-BIND]

I suggest looking in the New York Times editorial column. Or any major American news source. You look there, you'll locate nothing but left wing.

The shuttle can be made safe

[Anonymous Coward]

...if it's wrapped with duck tape.

Have you ever seen a duck break up in flight?

New NASA funding

[Sternn]

All Bush needs to do to get funding is figure some way to work this disaster into the 'War On Terrorism' like he has done with CD copying, 'The War On Drugs', and a dozen environmental issues.

I mean, if he can get a bill that allows logging in a national park past , has a dozen national parks which protect endangered wildlife turned into army training grounds, and opens up artic wildlife reserves for oil drilling all in an 'effort to fight terrorism' I don't see why getting funding for building a better space shuttle should be that difficult.

Remember, if your using a regionless DVD player the terrorists have already won...