Shuttle Foam Loss Linked to EPA Regs

newsmax.com ^ | Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:27 a.m. EDT

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"OK--Who was first?"

Jimmuh Cahtuh.

Michael Frazier

[tfecw]

The hair net idea sounds like a good one actually. That would at least catch the big chunks like the one that hit the Columbia.

[TChris]

More and more, the EPA is dragging this country down. Death by a thousand cuts.

[VeniVidiVici]

Explains a lot. Just last night I was thinking that I couldn't believe after hundreds of shuttle flights this all of a sudden became a problem.

It explains why it *has* just become a problem.

I'm sure the President has no idea. Too many government drones are afraid to speak-up for fear of being un PC.

[dfwgator]

We are still paying for LBJ's disastrous "Great Society" programs and his gross mishandling of Vietnam.

[NonValueAdded]

Yes, but it wasn't the O-ring composition but rather the putty used to seal them that had "big bad asbestos" removed from its formulation. Another post among the dozens about the foam composition brought up the fact that once asbestos was removed from the putty, it was way less heat resistant. It is believed to be the factor behind a few rocket failures and not just the Challenger. Search on "asbestos" and "putty" and you will probably find it.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

IF you do some more checking on this issue you will find that the Clinton adminstration ordered the change, via the green tree enviornmentalists who operated out of teh White House.

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Bill Clinton and has EPA friends caused this problem. Just check the records back in 1995 or 97. The green tree huggers were worried that the foam would not be bio degradable on the center fuel tank. So, a change was made in the compound of the insulation on the tank.


Check it out.

[yatros from flatwater]

Links to prior articles establishing the toll on astronauts -

from a very helpful anti-PC site, http://junkscience.com:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77832,00.html

and from Capitalism Magazine

http://capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?ID=2942

All in all a good yield of burnt offerings to Gaia.

[junaid]

I go through more brake pads for my car now that there is no asbestos in them.

[Publius6961]

The gravity vector component is minuscule. In civilian talk, it wouldn't make a measurable difference.

[A.A. Cunningham]

For that matter, why not reverse the roll maneuver and get gravity pulling debris away from the shuttle instead of putting the shuttle between the ET and the earth?

Negative Gs.

[NonValueAdded]

Actually, I'm thinking more of a distribution of forces thing than a saftey net effect, but yeah.

[cotton1706]

Ignorant of this stuff, yes. PC, no. If Freon works better, go back to Freon. The shuttle can fly right through the ozone hole/sarcasm.

[calex59]

And the use of non-freon based foam is Bush's fault how? He has nothing to do with the idiotic PC crap involved here. Nice stretch but it won't fly.

[elbucko]

The damage Carter did to this country was minimal compared to LBJ.

That's for sure. For disastrous policy, Jimmy Carter is only be a pimple on Lyndon Johnson's butt. For that matter, "Jimmy" is a pimple, wherever he is.

[jonascord]

How much extra weight would a cover to prevent foam from shedding off the ET add to launch weight? This mass would have to be subtracted from payload.

Can anyone present empirical proof that freon causes global warming, or did a discredited theory murder the crew of Columbia?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Didn't NASA start the whole PFC/ozone-hole hysteria/scam?

Sounds like they got hoisted on their own petard, to me.

[ElTianti]

Can anyone explain to me how a molecule composed of atoms all heavier than either oxygen or nitrogen finds its way to the top of the atmosphere?

[babyface00]

I go through more brake pads for my car now that there is no asbestos in them.

Have you tried ceramic pads? They're made to retrofit many cars these days.

They're a little pricier (sometimes a lot pricier), but they stop better, last longer, and leave minimal brake dust coating on your wheels.

[CheneyChick]

Wait, is that a trick rocket science question?