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Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident

Posted by michael on from the aftermath dept.

DreamerFi writes "A flight data recorder from the space shuttle Columbia, recovered last week in East Texas, contains readings that continue 14 seconds later than any previously studied data. Those readings are likely to play a crucial role in determining the cause of the shuttle's catastrophic breakup on Feb. 1."

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  1. Re:If This Is Not The First Post by Ponty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The next time you want to make a first post, you may want to consider the fact that your participial phrase is dangling. And as a result, you've made an error with your plurals.

    A brief explanation: The phrase must refer to the grammatical subject. The grammatical subject of your sentence is your balls. They are what are being covered with duct tape. When you refer to ripping "it" off, you are accidentally referring to the grammatical subject -- your balls -- so you're saying something really awful and you're saying it incorrectly.