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To: aristeides
FRom the respones of some freepers HERE we should just ACT LIKE NOTHING IS WRONG! NASA IS THE PROBLEM.
65 posted on 02/04/2003 8:33:23 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: TLBSHOW
It looks to me as if some FReepers are allergic to finding out what really happened, and are desperate to use all sorts of excuses and tactics to shut down discussion. Makes me wonder what they know or suspect that they are so anxious we not discover.
70 posted on 02/04/2003 8:36:27 AM PST by aristeides
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To: TLBSHOW
FRom the respones of some freepers HERE we should just ACT LIKE NOTHING IS WRONG!

No. Something was very clearly and tragically wrong. That matter is not up for questions.

The difference is that there are some of us that wish to wait for more facts before jumping to conclusions. If this was caused by a lack of funding or incompetence then that will come out, and *then* I'll be first in line to hack away at NASA and let the chips fall where they may.

But it could also be that this was caused by something going wrong that simply wasn't part of the risk algorithm before. There are some risks that aren't known until they cause a failure. That's what learning and science is all about. I'm willing to wait to find out.

We've had more than forty years of space travel without even *one* problem with re-entry. That's an amazing statistic. As patently dangerous as it is, we've gotten away with it every time but this one. It is quite possible (likely, even) that we will have something *new* come out of this investigation that gives us some new component for the risk equation. Something wasn't figured in.

122 posted on 02/04/2003 9:28:28 AM PST by Ramius
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