Debris Photos (GRAPHIC)

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[Mark Felton]

[Your attention please. This thread has generated a ton of abuse reports. Some have been from long established freepers. Others have been from relative newbies. Some have been complaining about the thread. Others have been complaining about the complainers.

Throw on top of it the fact that some of the newbies who showed up on this thread happen to be returning bannees, who before being banned were friendly with some of the very people they are bickering with here, and something is striking us as just not right.

If you are interested in the debris photos, this is the thread for it. If not, don't join in this thread. It is not disrespectful to those who died to post pictures of the debris in our opinion. What they show and where they landed may help piece together what killed these brave people.

If you feel that is the wrong decision, we apologize and mean no harm. But please, no more arguing about it on the thread, and no more abuse reports on the matter.

Thanks, AM.]

Sun Feb 2, 1:14 AM ET

Fires, believed started by debris from the downed space shuttle Columbia, burn in an area near Dallas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. Seven astronauts perished when the shuttle broke to pieces as it re-entered the atmosphere at the end of a 16-day mission. (AP Photo/Joe Cavaretta)

Sat Feb 1, 9:31 PM ET

A video image of a helmet that dropped into a yard in Norwood Community, Texas from the space shuttle Columbia is seen Feb. 1, 2002. Many parts of the shuttle, along with human remains, were found in the area. NASA (news - web sites) officials later removed the helmet. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

Sat Feb 1,10:35 PM ET

A small brush fire started by a falling piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia outside Athens, Texas after the shuttle broke apart during re-entry over Texas on its way to a scheduled landing in Fla., Feb. 1, 2003. Authorities have not speculated on the cause of the crash. (Jeff Mitchell/Reuters)

Sat Feb 1, 9:31 PM ET

A piece of debris believed to be from the space shuttle Columbia is photographed near Lufkin, Texas, Feb. 1, 2003. NASA (news - web sites) lost contact with the shuttle at around 9 a.m., about 16 minutes before its scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites). (Reuters)

Sat Feb 1, 9:15 PM ET

Goldie Hamilton looks at a piece of debris that dropped into her yard in Alto, Texas from the space shuttle Columbia February 1, 2003. Many parts of the shuttle along with human remains were found in the area. Hamilton lives in the house in the background. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Sat Feb 1, 9:18 PM ET

A piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia dropped into this yard in Alto, Texas, February 1, 2003. Debris from space shuttle Columbia rained down onto fields, highways and a cemetery in Texas on Saturday, sending dozens of residents to hospitals after they handled the smoldering metal wreckage. All seven astronauts on board were killed in the break-up, which scattered potentially toxic debris across a 120-mile (190-km-long) swath of eastern Texas. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

Sat Feb 1, 7:43 PM ET

Stan Melasky, left, and his brother Steve Melasky look over a piece of debris, believed to be from the space shuttle Columbia, that fell on their farm near Douglass, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)

Sat Feb 1, 8:52 PM ET

An Anderson County sheriff's deputy walks past a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia outside Palestine, Texas after the shuttle broke apart during reentry over East Texas on its way to a scheduled landing in Florida, February 1, 2003. Shaken NASA (news - web sites) officials vowed to find out what caused the space shuttle Columbia to break up, saying they would look closely at the impact of a piece of foam insulation that struck the orbiter's left wing at takeoff. REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell

Sat Feb 1, 7:25 PM ET

A piece of space shuttle debris sits on the ground outside Bronson, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. Space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames 200,000 feet over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Sat Feb 1, 7:29 PM ET

Searchers mark a small piece of debris while looking for remnants of the space shuttle outside Bronson, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. Space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames 200,000 feet over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Sun Feb 2,10:11 AM ET

Resident Bugs Arriola looks at a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003 in Nacogdoches, Texas. People have been told not to touch any of the debris as there could be toxic chemicals on the material. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)

Sat Feb 1, 7:41 PM ET

Vollunteer firefigher John Berry looks out at small piece of debris believed to be from the space shuttle Columbia in a rural area north of Palestine, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. The shuttle broke apart in flames over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Sat Feb 1, 9:23 PM ET

A couple looks at a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia that dropped onto the highway in Alto, Texas February 1, 2003. Debris fromColumbia rained down onto fields, highways and a cemetery in Texas on Saturday, sending dozens of residents to hospitals after they handled the smoldering metal wreckage. All seven astronauts on board were killed in the break-up, which scattered potentially toxic debris across a 120-mile (190-km-long) swath of eastern Texas. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

[Arkinsaw]

Piece of shuttle debris found near Douglass, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Shuttle Debris Found Near Nacogdoches, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Hazardous Materials Team Recovers Shuttle Debris That Fell Between Two Fuel Tanks in Nacogdoches, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Portion of Shuttle Nose Cone Prepared For Transit near Hemphill, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Shuttle Nose Cone and Crater Near Hemphill, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Shuttle Nose Cone Near Hemphill, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Lockheed Contractors Register Debris Location Near Hemphill, TX

[Rightly Biased]

here I fixed it for ya!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/835385/posts


and thanks for doing this.It tends to help in a strange way.
I can't really describe it but this has helped.
Regards
RB

[Arkinsaw]

Broken Ceramic Tile Driven Into Tree Near Hemphill, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Columbia Tiles Found on Dairy Farm Near Hemphill, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Shuttle Nose Cone in Housen Bayou Near Hemphill, TX

[Arkinsaw]

Hazardous Materials Workers Remove What is Believed to Be Shuttle Debris at Phoenix, Arizona

[Arkinsaw]

Piece of Shuttle Tile Found Near Corsicana, TX. (note apparent heat damage)

[Arkinsaw]

Texas
• Human remains that a hospital employee identified as ...on a rural road near Hemphill.
• Remains identified as ... on a farm in Sabine County, about 50 miles east of Nacogdoches.
• Other human remains in Sabine County. Officials would not disclose the type of remains or the location.
• Columbia's nose cone in a heavily wooded area outside Hemphill, just west of the Toledo Bend Reservoir, near the Louisiana border.
• Seat from the shuttle, in a remote wooded area outside Nacogdoches.
• Cylindrical tanks spewing an unknown gas in a wooded area outside Nacogdoches.
• Intact, charred helmet and astronaut's patch in San Augustine County.
• Items identified by authorities as a harness from a cockpit seat, a section of a tire in Nacogdoches County.
• Foot-long metal bracket that smashed through roof of dentist's office in Nacogdoches.
• Metal piece as big as a pickup truck in a rural area of San Augustine County.
• Unspecified item 7-8 feet long in Nacogdoches County.
• Tiles, insulation, pipes, other metal pieces in about 20 locations in Henderson County.
• Two unspecified items in Panola County, picked up by Texas Department of Public Safety.
• Rounded piece of what appeared to be metal, about 4 by 5 feet in size, found on a rural highway in Neches.
• Jagged, half-moon-shaped metal piece, about 5 feet long, in front yard in Nacogdoches.
• V-shaped chunk of metal in the median of U.S. 79 just northeast of Palestine, in Anderson County.
• 2-foot-square pieces of metal, small pieces of tile in Cherokee and Rusk counties.
• 5- to 6-foot-long object that looks like part of the landing gear 12 miles south of San Augustine. Object that looks like part of a radio, with wires hanging out, about one-half mile away.
• 300 pieces, including one so large it would be hard to fit into a pickup truck, in Cherokee County.
• 25 pieces found on a 20-acre campus of the Douglass Independent School District in Nacogdoches.
• Possible 5- by 5-inch piece of tile in front of Rice High School in Rice, in Navarro County.
• Tank, about 3 feet in diameter, on a runway at the A.L. Mangham Jr. Regional Airport in Nacogdoches.
• 3-foot by 3-foot piece of metal in a bank parking lot in Nacogdoches, and 1-foot diameter piece of gray metal in front of the courthouse.
• Curved piece of metal, about 5 feet in diameter, in highway median in Anderson County, west of Nacogdoches.
• 7- to 8-foot door-like fragment and a piece of debris resembling part of a windshield found in Cherokee County.
• Dented metal object about the size of a beach ball in the front yard of a home in Bronson, southeast of Nacogdoches near the Louisiana line. The object has bolts and nodules attached.
• 3-foot-by-3-foot cylindrical object at National Guard Armory in Nacogdoches.
Louisiana:
• Fabric bearing a blue Star of David on a silver background, apparently a uniform patch, found by woman walking in Sabine Parish near Toledo Bend Reservoir.
• Papers, including one that had the name of astronaut William McCool on it and one that had mission number STS107 on it, in a front yard in Vernon Parish.
• What appeared to be a small ring binder in rural Vernon Parish.
• 2 1/2-foot-by-5-foot chunk of metal in rural Sabine Parish.
• Heavy greenish object that appeared to have been circular, about the size of a silver dollar, hit a roof in Pineville and fell into the yard.
• Foot-long piece of metal that slammed into a yard in Vernon Parish, partly burying itself and sending up a shower of dirt.
• Bit described by police as possibly a charred bit of film or insulation, in Vernon Lake, near Anacoco.
• Possible insulation, in Jefferson Parish -- a suburb of New Orleans.
• Clamp, in Calcasieu Parish.
• Smoldering bundle of wires in a front yard in Shreveport.
• Piece size of a compact car reported splashing into Toledo Bend Reservoir on Texas-Louisiana state line.

[Arkinsaw]

Debris Believed to Be a Flap or Aileron Located Near Rusk, TX

[seams2me]

and check your spelling

[seams2me]

not insignificant at all. very comforting, in fact.

One thing that I have wondered, is if they knew they were not going to make it, and prayed "please God, just don't let us hurt anyone on the ground".

[seams2me]

Consider this: much of this is rural area, and likely to be seen mainly "from the highway", or the main farm to market road, thereby making most of the early finds those that happened to be lying nearest the road.

[seams2me]

pure hick? These people had this happen TO them, they didn't DO it so they could stand there and get their picture taken.

You would have been out doing the same thing.

And those 2 bubbas? They probably have really important jobs, like trash collecting or welding, that the world really can't do without.

Get off your high horse, before that bronc throws y'all.

[seams2me]

That photo was the one that made me cry, even moreso than the sole of the shoe, and the helmet.