In 2000 I told you specificly that these problems would come back to bite us on the ass. You laughed at me then. You have the gaul to tell me I'm shallow now.
On Saturday Ron Dettemore stated that the insullation was deemed to be of no problem. His dismissal caused a number of people on the forum to state that he was an idiot to dismiss it. Many came online to trash the folks who made this judgement. And now we're finding out that even he agrees with us. Today he's saying they may have dismissed it prematurely. Now you tell me whether folks were right to question his thoughts on this or not.
On Saturday he was asked if the wing had been inspected while in space, to which he responded that the atronauts couldn't, and besides it wouldn't have done any good anyway. Again we differed. We said photos were able to be taken, why weren't they? Again we were trashed for not leaving NASA to it's own devices. Today there are reports that photos were taken by satellites and the Air Force, two things that people such as myself suggested should have been done.
As evidenced by the revealations on two issues, you are quite frequently wrong.
Then there's this gem from you. "I happen to think that our astronauts are intelligent, experienced and have personal integrity. For me, logic would suggest that I wait on their opinions and findings before I rush to judgement on this terrible accident." Number one, who said our astronauts were anything but intelligent? Number two, logic for you doesn't work very well. Try something different.
"Number one, who said our astronauts were anything but intelligent?"
The people who believe that NASA could hide dangerous secrets from them. The people who believe that they would fly the shuttle if they thought it was dangerous. They people who believe that the astronauts themselves aren't involved with all the aspects of the program. The people who already know the cause of the disaster and are placing blame. The people who think they can do a better job at finding the truth then the astronauts.
Cut to the chase...you and those like you.