Human Remains Found (apparently astronauts)

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[Semper911]

FoxNews now reporting that human remains have been found in a shuttle debris field. I will spare you the graphic details, but they are not intact.

[janetgreen]

John Gillespie Maggee, killed in action at the age of 19 was serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force, some days before his death wrote:

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the trembling mirth of sun-split clouds – and done 100 things you have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.

Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept hills with easy grace, Where never lark, or even eagle flew;

And, while with silent, lifting mind, I trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God!”

May God bless them all and their families.

[DeFault User]

Amen

[exhaustedmomma]

We have a fishing camp in Hemphill. It is about 20 miles from the La. border... less, as the crow flies. It is surrounded by Sabine National Forrest... miles of nothingness. Hemphill is about 30 miles from Jasper and about 50 miles from San Augustine. On the Louisiana side it is near Many and Fort Hood. There is some sort of nuclear plant about 30 or so miles on the Louisiana side. (That would be southeast of Hemphill.) It is a small fishing community. February marks the beginning of White Perch fishing... followed by a series of fishing tournaments. The piney woods and bayou country are going to be something else to "hunt for debris".

[deport]

On the Louisiana side it is near Many and Fort Hood. There is some sort of nuclear plant about 30 or so miles on the Louisiana side.

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Fort Hood...... no way as Hood is in Killeen... How about Fort Polk?

Nuclear Plant..... don't know about that one either. There's a power plant at the dam of Toledo Bend Reservoir generating with water turned turbines.

[exhaustedmomma]

The piney woods and bayou country are going to be something else to "hunt for debris".

HOWEVER, those country folks and cajun's are going to be on a mission--- and these are "hunters" in every sense of the word.
Hemphill closes down at dark... and I don't mean maybe. The reporters, etc, better stock up on Catfish Poboys at Fauso's!!!!

[exhaustedmomma]

It is Ft Polk. And there is so some kind of nuclear something near there. In Louisiana.

[deport]

There's a nuclear power plant in St. Francisville, La. but not sure of anything near where you are referring...

[exhaustedmomma]

I found THIS. But this isn't what I was talking about. All I can do is ask neighbors when I go up there again... they are who told me about it. It is some small place in the central southwest border area. Between Many and Fort Polk area. I asked my husband, and he couldn't remember the name either. It really isn't pertinent and I wish I hadn't mentioned it. I will let you know when I find out where it is... just to let you know.

[finnman69]

List of shuttle debris found
Sunday, February 2, 2003 Posted: 12:09 AM EST (0509 GMT)

(AP) -- There were hundreds of reports of debris being found after Saturday's explosion of the space shuttle Columbia. Here are some of those reports:

Texas

-- Remains that a hospital employee identified as charred torso, thigh bone and skull on a rural road near other unspecified debris in Hemphill, east of Nacogdoches.

-- Intact, charred helmet and astronaut's patch in San Augustine County.

--A rounded piece of what appeared to be metal, about 4 by 5 feet in size, found on a rural highway in Neches.

-- Foot-long metal bracket which smashed through roof of dentist's office in Nacogdoches.

-- Half-moon-shaped metal piece, about 5 feet long, in front yard in Nacogdoches, described as jagged with severe burn marks.

-- V-shaped chunk of metal in the median of U.S. 79 just northeast of Palestine, in Anderson County. More unspecified debris found at nearby Pert.

-- 2-foot square pieces of metal, small pieces of tile in Cherokee County, just west of Nacogdoches, and in Rusk County, just to the north.

-- Unspecified debris falling near Jacksonville, Palestine, Rusk and Athens.

-- A brick-size piece of debris in the back yard of a home off FM 23 near Rusk. Other pieces in a nearby hay field.

-- 5- by 5-inch item that appeared to be a charred piece of tile in front of Rice High School in Rice, in Navarro County.

-- Unspecified debris several inches in diameter in Henderson County, including footlong piece on land being developed by family of former Texas Gov. Bill Clements.

-- Tank, about 3 feet in diameter, on a runway at the A.L. Mangham Jr. Regional Airport in Nacogdoches.

-- Steel rod with silver bolts in a Nacogdoches yard.

-- 3- by 3-foot piece of metal in a bank parking lot in Nacogdoches.

-- 1-foot diameter piece of gray metal in front of the courthouse in Nacogdoches.

-- 9- by 2-inch piece of metal in a yard, ash on a car in Nacogdoches.

-- Chunk of unspecified debris with stenciled letters and numbers on it in Kerens near Highway 309 in Navarro County.

-- Curved piece of metal, about 5 feet in diameter, in the median of state Highway 55 in Anderson County, west of Nacogdoches.

-- Small piece of unspecified debris in a grassy area along State Road 155 near Palestine in Anderson County.

Louisiana:

-- Smoldering bundle of wires in a front yard in Shreveport.

-- Compact-car sized piece reported splashing into Toledo Bend Reservoir on Texas-Louisiana border.

-- Debris in Ouachita Parish thought by authorities "to be possibly a parachute."

-- Four unspecified pieces of wreckage fell west of Leesville in Vernon Parish.

[virgil]

They don't need to be so graphic. Several of the astronauts had small children and its horrific enough for them.

After the WTC, I am not shocked at all. In fact, I want to know the brutal details. Its our money afterall. I'm afraid I just can't get worked up emotionally. I think NASA needs to do a better job of communicating the public need for the space program. They might be better at communicating it to children, but its the grown-ups who pay the bills. I would like to know why we should keep on risking expensive shuttles and crews for this program. I want to know why this happened.

[valkyrieanne]

My concern is for the astronaut's kids, but there will be no way to protect them from the horror of it all.

I can't begin to imagine how horrible it must be for the children. It's good that the press is reporting this, however, because when more remains are found, decent people will know to "hold vigil" over them until help can come. Personally, I had no idea there even *would* be any remains. At least this way people can look out for them and God willing there will be decent burials.

[potlatch]

We have a fishing camp in Hemphill.

Isn't that close to Tomball, where they have the Renaissance Festivel every year?

[El Gato]

It seems almost impossible to imagine going 12,500 mph. That in itself...must take a toll on the body.

It's not the speed itself, but the accelleration (G forces) required to get to that speed, or slow down from it, that are a might stressing, although nothing a 70 year old Senator couldn't take.

[laconic]

I agree with you in part, Virgil. I'd always thought that the space program (the race to the moon, the space satellites, even the space station) was great. But the shuttle program didn't make a lot of sense after I read the learned criticism of it after the Challenger disaster. NASA sold this program as a money maker, commercially, knowing it would lose billions and never be economically viable. Also, I think any program that is not essential to the national security that carries a 1 in 75 risk of a disaster is far too risky.