[weikel]

If the hab pod was breached before crashing they should have burned up almost to the point of disentigration. If it the hab pod was breached and they claim to have found the remains then im becoming a conspiracy theorist.

[Pyro7480]

If the flight deck and the mid-deck area was not breached before it reached the stratosphere or troposphere, then remains could have survived. Even with break-up, it doesn't mean that it completely disintegrates right away.

[drjoe]

'conspiracy theorist' phooey. Not surprised at all. Strapped in bulky pressure suits. The vehicle comes apart and things slow down in a hurry. VERY brief fire and explosion [ no oxygen at that altitude to support combustion.] Then it is a long long fall to earth but the terminal velocity is quickly reached and that is only about 100-135 mph. I would think that the metallic fragments would suffer far more loss of integrity. I mean just look at the pieces that are reaching the ground - lots of them. The fragments of the crew are mostly water - 70% or so, so that ablates off and what is left, is left. I have participated in the investigation of lots of 'smokey hole' accidents where a high performance jet fighter goes in nose-first at hundreds of mph and when you get a back-hoe and dig down, at the bottom are perfectly identifiable human remains.

[Arkinsaw]

If it the hab pod was breached and they claim to have found the remains then im becoming a conspiracy theorist.

Please don't. I saw a tank that still had rubber gaskets on it, I saw a strip of rubber, I saw a piece of the seat belt harness that still had a cloth identification tag on it. If rubber and 2 inches of cloth survive then human body parts encased in a pressure suit and inside a metal tub certainly can. The last thing we need is more conspiracy theorists.