NASA's Michael Griffin Interviewed

richvan writes "NASA administrator Michael Griffin was recently interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel about his first nine months on the job. He covers topics such as foam, Challenger, Mars, the budget, the astronaut corps and intelligent design. Describing the reasons for the foam loss, he states 'Cycling of the tanks with cryogenic propellants - in fact, [super-cold] liquid hydrogen, because we don't see this problem with liquid oxygen - causes or exacerbates voids in the bond between the foam insulation and the tank and produces cracks in the foam. If and when those cracks propagate to the surface, with a crack connecting a void to the surface, then you have a mechanism for cryopumping. When the tank is cold, air is ingested. It liquefies and goes into the voids. Then as the tank empties and the [air] warms up and evaporates, the resulting pressure blows the foam off.'"

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first post!

[delong]

For the first time EVAR!! I rule!

ID research done in space!

[OneSeventeen]

With the boredome with AJAX, the technical industry quickly shifted focus to Windows Security holes and inconsistencies between IE and global standards. After realizing those were also quite boring, we quickly shifted to Intelligent Design, where even athiest start arguing as though it is even a valid scientific topic to be argued about.

Seriously, let's talk about AJAX again, or Blackberry lawsuits, because ID isn't geek related, and isn't even a scientific theory IMO. It is a religious theory that has no bearing on anything anyway. (As a Christian, I believe in Intelligent Design, in that God created the world, but that's faith-based, and has nothing to do with science whatsoever and should therefore be excluded from scientific discussions.)

The real question we should be asking NASA's Michael Griffin is will Internet Explorer 7's adherance to XML HTTP Requests lead to a Windows security vulnerability when accessing AJAX applications from windows-powered blackberries that contain file footage of the MPAA making illegal copies of DVDs that explain the bee's ability to fly? ... in space?

And where's my flying car? 3-2-1 Contact and Isaac Asimov both promised those by the year 2000!

I work for NASA

[dj42]

I work for NASA.

So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.

But trust me.... You don't.

I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.

This is how bad info gets passed around.

If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.

Cuz some /.ers believe anything they hear.