Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely

Tuxedo Jack writes "CNN and NASA report that the space shuttle Discovery has landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Concerns for its safe return were raised when spacewalks were necessary to repair the vehicle when external components were damaged; however, the shuttle landed safely with Commander Eileen Collins at the control yoke."

Comments

Trying to stay ontopic

[Fringex]

While I am the last person I know to ever really complain about this or that. I am rather tired of spending everyday this past week reading about the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Everyday is a new article it seems about this or that. The most pointless to me was the article about how Discovery can't land due to clouds.

I honestly think you can beat a dead horse to death a second time. This was successfully completed by the continuing coverage of Discovery.

I think it would have been better to have reported that Discovery had some issues regarding the tiles and that Discovery landed safely. That would have been all I cared about.

Re:Waste

[tobybuk]

Again I'd have to agree with you.

Re:woman driver lands shuttle safely

[boaworm]

[women] are underpaid relative to men doing the same job with the same experience
And still people hire men.. how stupid are HR people ? They can hire women doing the same work, with the same experience, and they still hire a man ?

Re:woohoo

[madaxe42]

god-damned kid brother.

Re:IM transcript

[sean.peters]

For those of us who aren't on IM all day... what's "wb" and "ty"?

Sean

Why pharmacists don't get to make that choice.

[Grendel Drago]

Right... and how may other pharmacies were within driving distance of that asshole? C'mon, man... One asshole does not a trend make...

Frickin' sweet! Now that medical personnel can deny care "because they feel like it", I can't wait to see... "sorry, kiddo, I know you've just been in an auto accident and a transfusion would save your life, but as a devout Jehovah's Witness, I can't countenance blood transfusions. Better luck in the next world!" Or how about "sorry, toots, but as a devout Scientologist I can't in good conscience give you your antipsychotic meds. See, Scientology teaches us that psychology is really Xenu babble E-meter El Ron blah blah. Would you like to take this free personality test?"

Or, a little more relevantly, "What do you mean, you were just viciously raped, you don't have a car or any other means of transportation, the next pharmacy is six towns over because we're in the middle of Gawd Country, and you'd like a 'morning-after pill'? You slut! You're lucky I don't set you on fire, Pakistan-style!"

But, hey, I guess since things are a lot better than they were, we can't complain. I mean, shutting up and not engaging in activism have worked in the past, hasn't it?

--grendel drago