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From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc@...>
To: <CounterTerrorism-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CounterTerrorism-L] Discuss Columbia Shuttle and NASA


> > I was struck by something tangential but perhaps of some
> small relevance: The way the government keeps telling
> people not to touch any shuttle debris they find but to
> report it, sounds to me somehow reminiscent of the
> government's propaganda about UFOs.
>
> It may just be that I've watched too many UFO shows on
> TV (including one on The History Channel last night).
>
> On the other hand, I am hearing on the TV news some
> "sensible" commentary that these astronauts were
> professionals and that their job has risks. It is
> possible that the shuttle succumbed to
> the universal principle that no non-trivial system
> can be made absolutely safe.
>
> --
>
> They are saying that during the ascent of this
> shuttle launch, something came off one of the booster
> rockets and struck the shuttle. If the shuttle burnt up
> due to this accidental damage, then don't we once
> again, like with the Challenger O-ring incident,
> have to ask if the managers did the right thing?
> Is there a Roger Boisjoly somewhere in the system today?
>
> The shuttle may have been hit by a piece of space
> junk. There are thousands of pieces of detritus from
> the US and Russian space programs orbiting the
> earth. This stuff is an example of "pollution":
> externalizing costs instead of capitalizing
> an engineering project with funding to take care
> of all its unintended side effects, maintenance, etc.
> Every time we send anything into space, and every
> minute on the Space Station, there is risk of being
> struck by a piece of space junk which will
> kill astronauts and wreck the mission.
>
> If you bring it in, take it back out.
>
> \brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
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