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Saturday, February 01, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:35 PM:
About the terrorism question: Needless to say, nothing can be ruled out right away, but I doubt it. If it is, then President Bush has all the proof he needs that SDI could work - the shuttle was going Mach 18 when the problems started. Overwhelmingly more likely is that this shuttle was old - the oldest in the fleet - and susceptible to minor damage becoming major damage.I'm not a physicist so offer nothing but speculation here, but if one of the tiles on the wing was damaged, allowing even the tiniest amount of the wing surface to suddenly heat... Well, the Concorde grows by a couple feet by the time it gets to Mach 2 and this thing was going Mach 18... that could really screw with the structure of the shuttle, allow the whole thing to be heated at least bit by bit - the first debris was potentially over California several minutes beforehand - and then... we won't even say it.
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