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Columbia Accident Investigation Board: Final Report

ssclift writes "After nearly 7 months the Columbia Accident Investigation Board has released its final report into the February 1st loss of the Shuttle Columbia and all 7 crew members. This is more than a technical assessment of the immediate causes of the accident. Once again, sadly, the world's flagship space agency gets a thorough and grim review. Press briefings will begin at 11:00 EDT along with a webcast."

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  1. wikid ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jungle is massiv' !
    BTW, fr0st piss !

    1. Re:wikid ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      aiiii!!!

  2. is it me.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or is that an actual in-use .us domain tld?

  3. morons conclude: there are NO "accidents" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just bad/worse ?pr? ?firm? stock markup FraUD mumbo jumbo.

    that's right, after the walking dead finish exterminating themselves, & sadly enough, some of us, it won't take long to clean up this cesspool of greed/fear execrable.

    we're calling it the planet/population rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies initiatve).

    the Godless wons are helping by continuing to show where their hearts lie.

    what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.

    fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right? .asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.

    back on task.

    what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?

    you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.

    they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.

    of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.

    that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.

    communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.

    you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.

    meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.

    don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.

    nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.

    the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk

    no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.

    the lights are coming up now.

    you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.

    as to the free unlimited energy plan, as the lights come up, more&more folks will stop being misled into sucking up more&more of the infant killing barrolls of crudeness, & learn that it's more than ok to use n

  4. Once again NASA engineering comes through... by Glock27 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I can't read the PDF with either PDF viewer on my Linux system.

    Not only that, ggv darn near brought my system to it's knees with gs taking almost 700 MB of virtual mem. I only have 512 MB of physical mem. ;-)

    *sigh*

    --
    Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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    1. Re:Once again NASA engineering comes through... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Blame lunix for sucking so badly

    2. Re:Once again NASA engineering comes through... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Er, moderator geniuses, how exactly was this "offtopic"?

      Can't NASA distribute a document in a commonly readable format, or is that beyond it's capabilities?

    3. Re:Once again NASA engineering comes through... by Glock27 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Learn to speel right before you criticize others, jackass.

      Did I claim to be a world-renowned organization with a multi-billion dollar budget run by (supposedly) some of the brightest people in the U.S.?

      I think not.

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      Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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  5. Re:Starved for money and lacking direction by TheSync · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hazzard a guess that the long-term benefit to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan of the recent US interventions will be much larger than the benefit to them of the Space Shuttle.

  6. I nominate DARL MCBRIDE by greechneb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lets all send Darl to Mars, and put him in charge of the intellectual property there.

  7. Re:Starved for money and lacking direction by fmaxwell · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hazzard a guess that the long-term benefit to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan of the recent US interventions will be much larger than the benefit to them of the Space Shuttle.

    You've been listening to too much propaganda. The U.S. has attacked numerous countries over the years and failed to establish humane democracies in most of them.

    In 1953, we helped overthrow Iranian President Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the brutal Shah of Iran -- who was later ousted by Islamic fundamentalists.

    In 1954, a CIA-organized coup toppled the nationalist reformist government of Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in favor of a military government that suppressed opposition until the return of democracy in 1986. Civil war effectively continued until 1996.

    In 1960, Congo African nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba, elected in June 1960 as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was assassinated following a US/Belgian-organized coup designed to remove the Soviet-backed government. Succession by Mobutu Sese Seko ushered in 32 years of dictatorial and corrupt rule.

    In 1973, the CIA secretly funded a coup against Chilean Marxist President Salvador Allende which brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power for 17 years. General Pinochet later faced charges for human rights abuses committed during his years in power, but the Chilean Supreme Court dismissed the case, ruling the Pinochet unfit to stand trial.

    We don't have a great record.

  8. Re:The wrong solutions to the wrong problems by fmaxwell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Bush tried the inpiring goal bit with his announcement of a "Mission to Mars." Which lasted until he was presented with the price tag on the order of $450 billion dollars. The Mission to Mars did not survive the ongoing crusade of "Tax Freedom", not to mention the expense of the war of Iraq and new military adventures in a "War on Terrorism" which has no forseeable end.

    I wasn't one of the minority who put Bush into office, so don't blame me for that. It's easy to say "Mission to Mars" and quite another to inspire a nation to strive for it. Bush couldn't inspire me to wipe ketchup off of my shirt. The tax cuts were grossly irresponsible. The war on Iraq was not justified. The "War on Terror" is just a power grab by right-wing law-and-order types like Ashcroft.

    3.What's adequate? The big question is what are you willing to pay for and what do cut?

    I'm willing to forego Bush's tax gifts to the rich. There's about a trillion dollars there -- before we start considering the interest on the debt.

    The United States is awash in red ink,

    Sort of argues against big tax cuts for the rich and spending billions on military agression and "nation building", doesn't it?

    trade deficits and social and physical infrastructures which are going to pot, and we have severe energy and economic issues which continue to be deferred.

    When Bush took office, we had a budget surplus. Instead of using that to pay down the debt and pay for much-needed infrastructure improvements, he made good on his promise of a tax bribe to be paid if he became President. He went around the country spouting the it's-your-money bull**** throughout the campaign. Well, it's not your money but what he's spending is your debt and will be your children's and their children's too.