[sneakypete]

NASA (news - web sites) officials said Sunday that space shuttle Columbia experienced a sudden and extreme rise in temperature on the fuselage moments before the craft broke apart.

If it took actual rocket scientists to come to this conclusion,they ain't making rocket scientists like they used to.

[_Jim]

If it took actual rocket scientists to come to this conclusion

You're reading a headline *not* written by a rocket scientist. This was the conclusion of the news people (their story, the story they would like to write) after *watching* the rocket scientists ...