[AFPhys]

I don't have all the drawings necessary to see the main landing gear assembly in the wing support structures, so this makes [my] amateur analysis a bit hard.

This elementary statement is one of the best observations I have yet seen about the Columbia accident on this forum. There are similar statements you might have made with subjects of foam/aerodynamics, materials properties/Shuttle environment, photo technology, telemetry, management tasks, etc., but your statement may make drive it into the minds of some of the dunderheads that they are not by themselves going to solve this without far more information, regardless of their no doubt vaunted IQs.

[CWOJackson]

But...but...but they knew the real reasons within hours of the accident. All that remains is the NASA coverup.

Thank God some level of sanity is coming to these threads! The self agrandising rush to judgement was absurd.