To: HAL9000
It could all be fixed if the friggin NASA people would go against the Greenies and go BACK to manufacturing the foam the old way.
HArrumph.
5 posted on
07/04/2006 2:07:52 PM PDT by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
Can you imagine the greenies with their calculators trying to get a count of carbon units expended during the launch?
6 posted on
07/04/2006 2:15:46 PM PDT by
Thebaddog
(Labs Rules! Brilliant!)
To: Blueflag
I didn't know this was a "new" enviro friendly foam.
To: Blueflag
Agreed. I mentioned in an earlier thread that I thought the problem originated when they made the EPA happy and stopped using foam made with a freon based propellant.
Blasted liberal environmentals.
10 posted on
07/04/2006 2:31:11 PM PDT by
pctech
To: Blueflag
It could all be fixed if the friggin NASA people would go against the Greenies and go BACK to manufacturing the foam the old way. Not true. Snopes really should have an article on this by now. The foam that destroyed the Columbia was BX-250, a freon based foam. Additionally, foam fell off of 80% of flights that were observed (low resolution videos) by the CAIB. Foam fell off of the orbiter before most parts of the external fuel tank had their foam changed to non-freon based foam.
I would say that the shuttle probably sheds less foam that it ever has, before and after the EPA regulation change.
14 posted on
07/04/2006 2:46:18 PM PDT by
burzum
(Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.--Adm. Rickover)
To: Blueflag
Right you are, Right you are, Right you are, but that doesn't change the power the Greenies have.
23 posted on
07/04/2006 3:02:08 PM PDT by
Sundog
(The trouble with liberals isn't that they're ignorant:It's just that they know so much that isn't so)
To: Blueflag
You mean the old Pre-Algore foam made by using FREON, don'tcha? I'm tellin you this great nation is beginning to show way too many signs of GANG-GREEN!!!
30 posted on
07/04/2006 3:09:21 PM PDT by
SierraWasp
(Memo To: Uncle Sam Re: Terrorists, Insurgents and Illegal Combatants...NoUniforms... No Prisoners!!!)
To: Blueflag
It was the old style foam that caused the last shuttle disaster so maybe they just need to re-work the foam completely.
77 posted on
07/04/2006 6:24:44 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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To: Blueflag
It could all be fixed if the friggin NASA people would go against the Greenies and go BACK to manufacturing the foam the old way. No kidding. I can't figure out why they don't go back to the old foam and tell the Watermelons to go to h311 and file suit against the US Government....if they feel they can win. Which they won't.
96 posted on
07/05/2006 11:02:14 AM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
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