NASA satellite crashes minutes after launch

(CNN) ^ | 2-24-09 | CNN

[WL-law]

A metaphor here?

NASA isn't focusing on its core mission well enough?

Hansen/Gore hijacking science, and it is now all crashing into the sea?

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

Perhaps NASA should outsource to India. They have a good satellite launch track record.

[Aggie Mama]

Shaudenfraude

[sam_paine]

and it is now all crashing into the sea?

Hyperbole much? FGS...it's not ALL crashing into the sea.

One frikkin launch. It is rocket science after all.

[ml/nj]

Orbiting Carbon Observatory

Just what we need!

ML/NJ

[Help!]

Perhaps it was sabotage - they already know the satellite would have shown global warming is a hoax. Can’t let that happen.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

In frozen Antarctica no less.....

[vox_freedom]

Part of the stimulus package, no doubt...

[Thrownatbirth]

God telling NASA to lay off the global warming crap.

[lormand]

"Certainly for the science community, it's a huge disappointment"

Did they forget to convert imperial to metric again?

[FreePaul]

...would have collected "precise global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere"

Which NASA would have misused to predict terrible things to come from CO2.

[al baby]

Where did the BRD end up?

[republicansforever]

Took the words right of my mouth.

[dfwgator]

[dead]

Gaia didn't want us peeking up her atmospheric skirt, so she turned up the gravity and smashed this thing.

All hail Gaia.

[Concho]

First thing that went through my mind. Someone did not want that box in orbit. 50 years of space launches and they cannot achieve orbit? BS, someone did not intend for that package to achieve orbit..

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The lock washers were Imperial. Bolts and nuts were SAE.

[InterceptPoint]

You guys are all missing the point. This crash was CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING. The end is coming. Be prepared. ;).

[bikerman]

The satellite, which would have monitored greenhouse gases

Maybe it hit a cloud of greenhouse gas causing the crash,got to watch them clouds.

[bgill]

"We could not make orbit lies,"