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To: #3Fan
it's a point of light that's out of focus. I know it looks like a shuttle, but it's simply the lens playing tricks being that it's out of focus.

Uh huh. Not bloody likely that an out-of-focus point of light will be shuttle shaped, including the proper delta shape, a body flap, and OMS pods, among other things.

270 posted on 02/02/2003 5:18:16 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Uh huh. Not bloody likely that an out-of-focus point of light will be shuttle shaped, including the proper delta shape, a body flap, and OMS pods, among other things.

Look at the picture, it's perfectly symetrical. The shuttle being 40 miles in the air would not be that distinct anyway with a video camera. Besides, the shuttle has 3 main engines in a triangle shape in the center of the rear. If your picture was a distinct picture of the shuttle, it shows two main engines widely separated and too far up. The picture is simply an out-of-focus point of light.

On top of all this, it's physically impossible for the shuttle to go 16 times the speed of sound at 207,000 feet intact in any position but nose first. It would instantaneously disentegrate in any other position.

273 posted on 02/02/2003 6:02:28 PM PST by #3Fan
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