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To: Jet Jaguar

was just thinking If I was on that shuttle,I’d suit up and take a ball pein hammer and get eyeball to eyeball with panels 7 and 8 and have a good see.


37 posted on 06/12/2007 5:11:34 PM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: advertising guy

and was thinking even more....space junk or meteors huh..........hmmmmmm, what are the odds of being hit while looking at the wing?


40 posted on 06/12/2007 5:12:24 PM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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The problem is the technology. The idea that they use friction to slow down. They need to find a way to enter the atmosphere at less than 3094562390486 miles per hour. A different propulsion method that doesn't require 93457932475 gallons of fuel in a tank the size of a skyscraper.
45 posted on 06/12/2007 5:14:31 PM PDT by kjam22 (see me play the guitar here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHy7Cuoucc)
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To: advertising guy
Take a hammer to those carbon panels and you'll be the cause of another Columbia.

IIRC they are on the leading edge of the wings.

171 posted on 06/12/2007 6:04:59 PM PDT by X-FID
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