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Jay Barbree onj NBC is reporting that some of the sensors went out just before the loss of contact. The shuttle's festooned with the things, so knowing what sensors went first might be very helpful in determining what happened if not why it happened.

Ok, I am not a scientist (nor do I play one on television), but I have a question for those who are and may have more knowledge than me.

Did anyone see the video of the shuttle close up before it came apart? When I saw it, I thought "wait a minute, am I supposed to be seeing the stern of this craft?" After the close up, the camera zoomed out and then.... Now, We all pretty much know that the shuttle puts it's nose in the air and uses it's bottom to slow down. We have also learned that while the nose is up, the pilot does banking maneuvers to bleed off speed.

The NASA officials said that they got "off the scale low" readings from several sensors and they said that to observers those readings would look as if "the wires were cut." While I am not a scientist, I am an electronics tech and to me those indications say the wires were disconnected by some means. In this case I'm thinking burnt through.

In the particular video shot I am referring to, we should have seen either the top or the bottom of the shuttle and not the rear.

If they were making banking maneuvers and wiring harnesses were burnt through enough to make the elevators on the left side fail, wouldn't the air pressure and speed cause the shuttle to yaw enough so they were coming down sideways and wouldn't that cause enough strain on the airframe to cause it to come apart?

What say all of you?

This was discussed at length on another thread, and on that video in question what you are seeing is not the shuttle itself but a distortion of the video camera. When the camera zooms out and re-focuses, you don't see that triangular shape anymore.

The proof was in the equipment itself and the altitude of the shuttle. There's no way in hell a home video camera (which is what FOX said it was) could see that kind of detail on the space shuttle at 200,000+ feet.