[#3Fan]

Actually, because of the spray I do believe it was ice. That being said, if a few did fall off over California, the catastrophic events wouldn't have happened immediately and since it was traveling so fast, I still think the even happened over Texas.

Not to be argumentive but I don't belive that. The shuttle was descending. The point of maximum heat stress in a normal descent would've been over Texas. I think the force of the atmosphere caused the damaged tiles to cause other tiles to come off over California. Then at maximum heat stress over Texas burn through occurred.

BTW, I don't trust ANY of the pictures we've seen so far.

If that video showing the left wing impact was shown before the tragedy, then I would guess it's trustworthy.

[Howlin]

The point of maximum heat stress in a normal descent would've been over Texas.

Actually, at the moment they broke up there were, in fact, at the maxium point of descent.

[Howlin]

Not to be argumentive but I don't belive that.

Then what about my post are you disagreeing with.