[BlackbirdSST]

Well, in light of NASA changing it's tune in mid chorus, wtf are people supposed to think? If they had studied the impact of "foam" on the wing, any 1st year Engineering student would have realized it hit the wing like a BRICK not a FEATHER. IT WAS INCOMPETENCE, IT WILL REMAIN INCOMPETENT, you know why? Because NO ONE will be held responsible. Isn't a Free Republic based in part on RESPONSIBILITY? From your barb's, I guess you believe everything your told, how does that parse with CONTRADICTION? As for the rest of your strawmen, the only smear going on here will be done totally by NASA themselves. Not to worry though, they get increased funding, for more of the same! Blackbird.

[CWOJackson]

You ask if Free Republic is based on RESPONSIBILITY, then say the most irresponsible things.

Do you actually believe that you and TBLSHOW know more then the astronauts themselves (and we're not talking about any NASA public relations office)?

Do you think that the seven who died were fools or duplicitous in their own deaths?

Do you think their comrades who are burying them today will cover up for NASA and have no interest in learning what caused the death of their friends?

Do you believe that there are astronauts who wouldn't go up in another shuttle tomorrow?

RESPONSIBILITY will come from them not from a hand full of government distrusting internet geeks quoting rumors and posting fake pictures.

[Wolfie]

NASA really should have a seperate "Closing the Barn Door After the Horse is Gone" department. And you're quite right, nobody will take a fall for this.