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Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-to-upgrade dept.

pumpkinpuss writes "Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered unusual damage during the shuttle Discovery's blastoff Saturday. Pictures from a NASA source show buckled concrete and numerous concrete blocks or bricks, presumably from the flame trench, littering a road behind the pad."

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  1. Re:how? Ouch! by JavaManJim · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Fun with blowing things up in THIS FRAIDY CAT SOCIETY? Fun you say? Fun??? I think not young man. Homeland Security is on its way, and will be knocking on your door any time now. Or not.

    Jim

  2. Re:how? Ouch! by CrazedWalrus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From the scary-but-true dept. I don't know if you read Fark, but they had a guy on there who was barred from entering a plane because he was wearing a Transformers shirt.

    On the offending shirt, the transformer's arm was a gun (drawn, completely cartoon-ey), but that was enough for Security to bar him from entering the plane unless he changed his shirt.

    Read it and weep for our world:

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece

    Dave