Columbia news about to break?

NRO's The Corner ^ | 5/23/03 | Rod Dreher

[William McKinley]

"EXPLOSIVE" COLUMBIA NEWS COMING [Rod Dreher]

A good Washington source says that there will be "explosive" news on Friday about the space shuttle Columbia. NASA is said to be bracing.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

When I posted that around the time of the Columbia going down, I got a week ban by the FR Admin tyrants. No warning, no notification. Just punishment. Nice.

FR Admins can be notoriously thin skinned. When you hit a nerve, they react.

Apparently that one particular nerve has scabbed over.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I guess timing is everything.

[shadowman99]

Add me to this ping list please. Thanks

[lonestar]

there needs to be head-rolling at nasa. long overdue.

if a corporation conducted business in the manner of nasa since the 1980s, they'd not be in business.

I think they do a pretty good job considering they work with the lowest bidders.

[liberalnot]

they've lost 2 shuttles!

ok, have it your way. you live in texas and probably have some association or identification with nasa.

[playball0]

The news will be that a rescue mission could have been possible using Discovery if astronauts rationed food & water. Repair mission could have be launched later.

[Admin Moderator]

I am going to take issue with that. Any time some action is taken, all other moderators have an opportunity to see what happened and to comment and/or question what happened. Further, so does Jim.

And anyone banned or suspended or what can mail Jim and question the action.

It is not feasible to think that close to 10 people plus Jim are all thin skinned.

Do mistakes get made? Certainly- this is not an exact science. But more than 9 times out of 10, when someone says they were treated unfairly, there is a lot more to the story than what they are saying. And I would also estimate that more than 9 times out of 10, when a mistake does get made, the mistake gets corrected.

And I say all this without knowing precisely what the other guy is talking about, but knowing in detail how the system works.

Regards, AM

[liberalnot]

let's see...i'm in the govenment and i'm contracting for a new freeway.

according to you, i should be taking the highest bidder?

[ido_now]

NASA knew they were dead before re-entry, or suspected as much.

Is it impossible to have another shuttle always ready for a rescue effort if trouble is expected?

People are less expensive I quess.

[William McKinley]

I think it is wrong to say they work with the lowest bidder.

They work with the lowest bidder that meets the requirements.

The problem, when problems turn up regarding quality, is not with the bidding process. It is with either the system to assure the requirements are met, or with the development of the requirements to begin with.

If there is a good set of requirements, and a good process to ensure compliance with the requirements, then the lowest bid system is optimal.

[MaryFromMichigan]

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[TLBSHOW]

ping

[HighWheeler]

Yeah, and the Admin Moderator's hide within the group image. We can't tell if it's just one of 'em that's got the parent mentality to go with the thin skin or if its a type of virus that's hit them all.

I've had a couple of semi-humorous politically oriented posts sent to chat within 2 minutes, even though there was no decent breaking news or heavy crowds on FR at the time. Yet somehow, the American Idol Live Thread is allowed to clutter-up the Latest Posts listing for hours on end.

The Admin Moderators don't scare me - some of them are just a bunch of l.......



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[epluribus_2]

Or that the Islam thing had something to do with it...

[William McKinley]

Nah. Then it would be 'the White House is bracing', not 'NASA is bracing'.

[epluribus_2]

please don't flame me - but the headline was high on speculation and emotion but content free.

[KevinDavis]

I wonder about the anti humans in space crowd(wimps more like it) would say about this.. Humans don't belong in space. NASA killed more people the Al Qeda. Robots is the way to go. We are scared of new things. We are cowards.

[KevinDavis]

Oops I forgot the sarcasm tag.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Not informing the crew as to the condition of their craft would have been inexcusable. Or was it possible they were informed and that the decision was made to spike the release to the public at the request of the crew? I guess we might find out?

The videotape that was recovered of the early moments of re-entry gives no suggestion whatsoever that the crew were aware of anything unusual.

[Admin Moderator]

"Yeah, and the Admin Moderator's hide within the group image"

We are legion.