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| Serial stupidity by laudablepuss 04/09/2003, 3:41pm PDT | ||||
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From this article:
"As time went on, people I think got used to tile damage from debris off the external tank, got used to repairing that between flights," she said. "You survived it the first time so suddenly it becomes more normal." Richard Feynman made simillar accusations after Challenger. The article also mentions the tile damage "model" that NASA engineers used to base their assesment of safety. Sounds like the "safety limit" of the O rings that the engineers fooled themselves into believing back in the early 80s. To paraphrase Feynman, the O rings weren't designed to fail (they were found in various degrees of degradation after every flight) and the wing wasn't designed to sustain highspeed impacts with big chunks of shit so talking about safety under these circumstances is ludicrous. Live and don't learn is the NASA way, I guess. It makes me sick that they are seriously considering flying these fucking shuttles again. |
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Serial stupidity by 04/09/2003, 3:41pm PDT  Re: Serial stupidity by 04/09/2003, 4:09pm PDT Until they can load bombs on the damn things, no extra $$$ NT by 04/09/2003, 5:09pm PDT Re: Until they can load bombs on the damn things, no extra $$$ by 04/09/2003, 5:36pm PDT FUCK. ATORed. NT by 04/09/2003, 5:41pm PDT Bwahahaha!!! NT by 04/09/2003, 6:24pm PDT Re: Serial stupidity by 04/16/2003, 11:11am PDT |
