[Pokey78]

[netmilsmom]

Calling Mulder and Scully.....(puts me in the mind of Art Bell)

[Moosilauke]

Considering the source, "kook alert" is redundant.

[William McKinley]

Actually, I have a different take than everyone whose comments I have read so far.

I think it is a very good point and a possible clue that the administration thought something was up, that Card was watching.

But what I totally disagree with is the idea that if they were concerned that something might go wrong, the public should have known about it before hand, or that the families should have been told. What on earth good could possibly have come from either?

[ThinkingMan]

Was the fact that I was logged on to FR on Saturday morning, watching the Shuttle land (to the detriment of my children's Nintendo Game Cube playing time) incicitive of a known problem?

[CARDINALRULES]

Oh please.... that's like saying I knew because of the dream I had that morning about 45 minutes before it happened and when I gave up trying to go back to sleep and get up and go to our other house to take my shower and found a dead cardinal that our lazy cats killed - the last time they did that was another bad day for me --6-22-02.

Oh yeah the dream --it was about me being in 4th grade --which I was when the Challenger exploded -- I found a $2 bill from 1929 (crash -depression) and the picture was a skull instead of Jefferson - I remember flipping it over but I can't remember the back of the bill.

I rarely remember vivid details about my dreams/nightmares so this has freaked me out.

[EBUCK]

I watch NASA tv pretty regular. In the days leading up to the accident I had probably watched half an hour of the feed.

I planned on watching that morning but had FIRE business to attend to.

No big deal, a lot of folks tune in to see what they're up up there.

[strela]

Oh, this is very believable compared to some of the kookburger stuff being bandied about in the sci.space.shuttle Usenet newsgroup these days. The best I've seen so far is the claim that the US government shot down the orbiter using a HAARP weapon based in Alaska as a test for the Iraq war.

There's also the usual Kook Kontingent in alt.astrology who are claiming to have foreseen the tragedy in their tarot cards/runes/vegetable soup. Although none came forward until after it happened to make their claim, they all seem to claim that they were not allowed to due to government death threats.

Usenet is a laff-a-minute.

[iconoclast]

How silly.

Coverups are unnecessary where the gubmint is involved.

[Brett66]

This isn't even a very good conspiracy theory. A better one would have been that terrorists sabotaged the space shuttle and they're trying to cover it up. A second-rate tinfoil attempt at best.

[TBall]

I figure they knew there was a problem and lets say they even put the odds at 1 in 10 that it could turn catastrophic. What good would it do to disclose this information?

[clueless_expert]

I think the Democraps are behind the wreck.  My local paper said that it's possible "disaster may be linked to left wing."

C_E

[montag813]

It is odd that the White House chief of staff would watch a shuttle landing. Such a routine event

ROUTINE??? With 10 times the security due to Ilan Ramon?
LeBoutiller is an imbicile.

"Is this true, Dr. Venkman?"
"Yes, it's true...this man has no dick"

[1rudeboy]

One would think that if Card was expecting an accident, he would have been watching CNN, and have had a phone-line open to NASA, seeing that NASA-TV had no video.