[Capitalist Eric]

And you're serious???

Who's kidding who, anyway???

Stand up, get some oxygen to your brain...

Then try again.

[kjam22]

To suggest that there was several hundred miles per hour difference in speed between the foam and the shuttle is just not a serious idea. The distance from release point to impact point being 50 feet is a limiting factor. You really believe that the foam decelerated several hundred miles per hour in 50 feet??? In less than 1/6th of a second?

[kjam22]

You're saying that the foam released from the booster, and decelerated so quickly that the shuttle rearended it at a speed that is several hundered miles per hour faster than the foam was traveling because of its deceleration. And the distance from release point to impact point is only 50 feet. And mathmatics tells us that to obtain that much difference in speed, that the foam had to have traveled the 50 feet from release point to impact point in less than 1/6th of a second.