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NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit
Ben Hutchings writes "The BBC has a report on an impact simulation that aimed to recreate the impact of insulating foam on Columbia's wing. The result was a large hole that probably could not be repaired in orbit even if it was known about."
Those astronauts should have realized their beers would get all shaken up on that rocky ride to outer space. If only NASA had told them to tap the top of the can repeatedly...
*sigh*
ALL YOUR FALIURE ARE BELONG TO US !!
(Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.)
Emad was born in a donkey stable in Mustfuq, Iran, in 1982, shortly after the beginning of the heated Iran-Iraq war. His parents were lowly dung farmers, and Emad was destined to inherit his father's trade. However, six years later the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on a tour of the nation celebrating the Iranian "victory" over Iraq, took a liking to six year old Emad. The Ayatollah demanded that the child become a page in his entourage.
Apparently being a page in the Ayatollah's entourage meant lots and lots of gay sex with his Holiness, and Emad was soon introduced to Iranian faggotry. Six year old Emad was forced to stroke the Ayatollah's beard and jack him off while whispering "I love you, Holy Grandfather," in the Ayatollah's ear. Upon ejaculation Emad would to lick the Ayatollah's seed from the ground and snowball it into the Ayatollah's mouth.
When, in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini passed into the next world, Emad was shattered. Being only seven he couldn't understand why the love of his life had left him. Emad became depressed and left the holy court in an attempt to quench his faggot thirst for beards and hard uncircumcised cocks.
Technology Beckons
In 1993, after years of hard life on the streets of Iran's dirtiest cities and whoring his hairless young body at the drop of a sheckle, eleven year old Emad met up with a group of Iranian hackers. Being fat and smelling typically like armpits, these hackers hadn't had sex in years. Young Emad, his smooth body full of promise, seemed to be the answer. They offered him room and board so long as he would feed any sexual urges the hackers had.
Emad picked up computer skills alongside the scat parties held by the lonely hackers. Between sucking farts and eating spicy Iranian turds directly from the hackers' asses, Emad learned Linux userland utilities. For every time Emad's anus was stretched and his rectum torn by eager gay faggot Iranian hacker cock, he learned a new Linux kernel compile option. Every quart of semen that found its way to Emad's stomach cooresponded to a deluge of Linux lingo and elitist thought. And by the time 1997 rolled around, Emad was virtually one of the hackers, save that he could take the largest of dark meat in his ass with nary a gasp or twitch. It was then that Emad was told the Iranian Secret.
The Great Satan
America, Emad was told by the Iranian Linux hackers, was the Great Satan, the enemy of all the virtues and truths and graces of the Muslim religion. It was a Jihad, Emad was further told, to destroy America and all it stood for. This was the reason why Linux was created, and this was the reason why the Iranians had adopted it as their OS of choice and trained legions of hackers. Emad's eyes grew wide and lit up as the truth washed over him. Years of taking dick in every orifice available finally meant more than just the pleasure he gained from it. Emad knew he could destroy America through its own faggot underground and the Linux skills he had learned.
Emad was on a plane days later, ready to take on America and make its hackers pay.
Enter Slashdot
By 1999, the Year of the Beast, Emad had been living in squalor in Long Island, in the midst of Jews. He had been trying to hook himself up with the anti-American faggot hacker underground, but so far had just been successful in luring men, mostly Jews, back to his economy apartment for round after round of scat sex. The turds weren't as spicy in America, as they always said, but the lack of pork grease in the Jewish brownmeat was a welcome change from what he knew. And then one day, while cleaning up his diarhea-splattered walls and piss-soaked sheets and pillows, he found a piece of paper that had fallen out of his partner's pocket. It contained only the web address http://slashdot.org/.
Minutes later Emad was logged in and turned on. He had found his means to take down America; he had found America's gay homosexual cock-lusting faggot hacker culture.
She looks like she's fifty.
I wouldn't do her with Malda's dick.
..and I knew as soon as I heard about the shuttle blowing up that it was the foam hitting the wing.
They could've paid me $1M and I could've told them the cause - and saved the country $2.4M.
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
I've been following this pretty closely since I live relatively near the Johnson Space Centre here in Houston, and quite a few NASA people come in where I work. I've heard a lot of talk about training the astronauts all to spacewalk, and be able to repair minor damage to the shuttle, but what exactly would they do if the damage was too severe to be repaired? Would a second shuttle have to be launched as a rescue mission? Would they have to just abandon the damaged shuttle in space, since it would be unfit for re-entry? There's a lot of talk of repairs but I haven't heard any predictions for scenarios where repair was impossible. I think we all need to question ourselves. The real reason this crash happened is because of niggers. Niggers cause everything bad, and the only time I feel happiness is when I think about lining up niggers one by one and shooting them in the skull with my gold-plated DE. That, and jews can suck my dick.
Not only that, but the panel in question was one removed from shuttle atlantis. So not only did they find the smoking gun, they made another shuttle unflyable!
Nothing better to do than correct spelling mistakes on the internet? Luuzer.
Sure it did, Ace. You shot the damn thing enough times at 500 mph. You kept getting small, inconclusive cracks, so you shot it over and over and over until you got what you wanted. How do we know the wing used for that test wasn't defective? Maybe the foam you used was a tiny bit more dense. Rip that same hole 3 times in a row, and I'm on board.
Found what you're looking for? More like looking for what you found.
You know what?
It seems that at least 20% of the posts here noted just how incredibly ridiculous it was that the foam in NASA's "experiment" was being fired at 500mph, when the real piece had been traveling at an almost relative speed to the shuttle.
Interesting that this desperate attempt to kill the story came about shortly after the email was uncovered in which a NASA tech at the time said the foam piece was of no consequence.
And what is NASA hiding?
I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but kids, the ship was shot down by a space-based EM weapon in order to make a point. --That point being, "Get your ass in gear, Bush. You and your piddly nation are nothing. Do as you are told or we will not spare you. Now get WWIII underway. Attack Iraq, you little shit." (Or something along those lines.)
Sounds nuts? Think I'm irritating now? Just wait until the day when you have to admit to yourself that I was right.
-FL
It seems that at least 30% of the posts here noted just how incredibly ridiculous it was that the foam in NASA's "experiment" was being fired at 500mph, when the real piece had been traveling at an almost relative speed to the shuttle. (That is, when it parted from the Shuttle body, it stopped accelerating, and so the impact speed was that of the Shuttle's rate of acceleration over a period of about half a second. After doing all the math, I came up with an approximate speed between 3 and 14 MPH, depending on how long the foam was in free fall between separating from the Shuttle to bouncing off the wing. Luckily, Slashdotters are nothing if not good at their highschool physics and hyper-linking skills.)
What I find interesting is that this desperate attempt to kill the story came about shortly after the email was uncovered in which a NASA tech at the time said the foam piece was of no consequence.
And what is NASA hiding? (Well, actually, they're more or less in the dark, with the exception of perhaps a few insiders who suspect). But don't kid yourselves. There's definitely pressure on America's own space agency to kill this once and for good.
Why?
I know this is going to sound ridiculous, (hell, counting the negative mods I got for this post the first time around, I know some of you dislike the tone of it so much that some want it to vanish from their warm and illusory little realities but good!), --Kids, I have it on good authority that the shuttle was shot down by a space-based EM weapon in order to make a point. --That point being, "Get your ass in gear, Bush. You and your piddly nation are nothing. Do as you are told or we will not spare you. Now get WWIII underway. We don't care how stupid the lies you have to tell are. Attack Iraq, you little shit, or else." (Or something along those lines.)
Sound nuts? Just wait. You'll change your minds soon enough. (They'll see. They'll ALL see! Bwahahahaha. etc.)
So relegate me into Troll Dust again, kids. I can always re-post. (Again!) --I'll generally have more Karma than you have mod points, and when I want something said, you will damned well know it. Don't like it? Then go stuff some more gum in your ears. This predictable little reality is ending all around us. Try to take it with a little spine, for goodness sake!
-FL