[dr_who_2]

Pops self on head. Of course! EMI in the high VHF bands was transmitted from the speaker wire running directly into the skin of the main tank and focused by the concave surface at the bottom of the tank. The power density was thus amplified 10^2+/-0.5 in the same region as the transducer, possibly generating a lethal static discharge that could cause a chain reaction that would destroy the entire shuttle on the launch pad, killing the crew and countless seagulls and pigeons.

You'd think they'd just go back to the Gemini program.

[The Brush]

Pops self on head. Of course! EMI in the high VHF bands was transmitted from the speaker wire running directly into the skin of the main tank and focused by the concave surface at the bottom of the tank. The power density was thus amplified 10^2+/-0.5 in the same region as the transducer, possibly generating a lethal static discharge that could cause a chain reaction that would destroy the entire shuttle on the launch pad, killing the crew and countless seagulls and pigeons.

I was just thinking the same thing...