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NASA's Foam Test Offers Lesson in Kinetic Energy

Posted by michael on from the school-of-hard-knocks dept.

Puneet submitted a followup story on the foam test that NASA conducted to get an idea of what sort of damage could be caused by foam falling off the shuttle fuel tank at launch. As it turns out: a lot.

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  1. is it time to ban nerf guns then ... by spiny · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... could be possible terorist weapons :)

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    1. Re:is it time to ban nerf guns then ... by krisp · · Score: 5, Funny

      But Mr. Hubbard said the experiment showed that "people's intuitive sense of physics is sometimes way off."

      Definatly works for NASA.

  2. Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Foam fell off my shelf the other week.
    Should I be worried?

    1. Re:Uh... by doc_traig · · Score: 5, Funny

      Depdends. Was your shelf headed upward at a thousand miles an hour?

      (If it was, tell me where you got your shelf.)

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  3. Some how I just can't realate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    foam and southern florida to science. I tend to get flashbacks of spring break.