William Readdy, deputy administrator of NASA, said officials are actively searching for any of the shuttle's five onboard computer systems. Although it's unlikely they survived the crash, he said, the computers have "memory resident in them" that could shed light on the status of the shuttle after communications were lost with ground control.
okay, i wasn't imagining things yesterday... i was time traveling :o)
35 posted on 02/06/2003 10:29:51 AM PST by glock rocks
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Although it's unlikely they survived the crash, he said, the computers have "memory resident in them" that could shed light on the status of the shuttle after communications were lost with ground control.
Sounds bogus. Any buffer memory would be RAM, and unreadable by now.
Were shuttle comms in the clear? Were any hams monitoring?