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That's all after the fact.Here we go again with the science bashing.
While you want to blame scientists for the disaster Bob Ebeling ultimately blamed God.
What evidence is there that anyone ignored any possibility?What about anyone who ignores that possibility?
I think a picture of seven astronauts tearing their clothes and throwing ash on their heads as a gesture of mourning while they marched past onlookers on an once in a lifetime trip into space that they had competed for and trained for would be a more suspicious picture than those same seven people smiling and waving to the crowd as they passed.I'm not sure they even SUSPECTED anything was wrong.
The biggest thing wrong is that “space” has remained a “flags and footprints” mission proposition with no real goal except pork in critical Congressional districts for “development” without any realistic long-range vision.That's all after the fact.
What's wrong with that picture in the OP? anything?
You're entitled to your opinion, Pollard, but I don't think you have a proper grasp on what went on behind the scenes.The biggest thing wrong is that “space” has remained a “flags and footprints” mission proposition with no real goal except pork in critical Congressional districts for “development” without any realistic long-range vision.
If they had delayed the Challenger launch and no lives had been lost … the STS Program would ultimately have achieved nothing that could not have been achieved with ULA (Atlas-Delta) payload launches for less money so the Shuttles would have ultimately still flown too infrequently to be cost effective and would still have been canceled.You're entitled to your opinion, Pollard, but I don't think you have a proper grasp on what went on behind the scenes.
Wow ... just wow.So what if 7 people died because a bureaucrat overrode the decisions of an engineer?
Why do you care nothing for the MANY that die from medical treatment denied them, but offer pages of angst over these particular 7 tragic deaths? Do you have an agenda that some few deaths matter while the many deaths do not?Wow ... just wow.
I hope this was meant as sarcasm.
Have a nice day, atpollard.Why do you care nothing for the MANY that die from medical treatment denied them, but offer pages of angst over these particular 7 tragic deaths? Do you have an agenda that some few deaths matter while the many deaths do not?
Wow … just wow.
(You suspiciously clipped my last paragraph to truncate its point.)
No comment.For the same reason e. e. cummings did not capitalize his name … I am not that important (God is).
The irony went right over your head.That's all after the fact.
Probably nothing at all as only a few individuals were aware of potential problems with the O-rings.What's wrong with that picture in the OP? anything?
ASTRONAUT WAS TOLD O RINGS WERE 'PROBLEM' (Published 1987)Key NASA officials, including astronauts, have said they were not aware of the significance of the booster problem until after the explosion.
Perhaps God sent three guys to warn them?It's only when things go wrong God takes no responsibility and it's all the scientists fault.
Ebeling saw his responsibilities or in your terminology a God given gift which he claims was a mistake.
All that knowledge, and you can't tell me what's wrong with the picture I posted in my OP?@AV1611VET I highly recommend reading some of the numerous books that have been written about the Challenger accident or even just the Challenger Accident Report. Truth, Lies and O-Rings is a good book to start with. Beyond that, I'll not entertain your questions and tell you that doing your own research is the best way to go. I know quite a bit of what went on behind the scenes due to knowing some of the people involved. But, if you can't go do your own research, there's absolutely no point in me attempting to impart knowledge to you. You're anti-science as it is and probably couldn't begin to understand the multiple factors that went into the launch decision.
All that knowledge, and you can't tell me what's wrong with the picture I posted in my OP?
And you're recommending I read some of the numerous books that have been written about the Challenger accident?
What good will that do?
To show me you know -- or at least, understand.What would be the point of me telling you?
That's not how I get my kicks.Enilorac said:What would it hurt you to go do some independent research?
Okay.Enilorac said:I tell you the same thing I tell my students.
Good advice.Enilorac said:Avail yourself of the brain God gave you.
So we can share our knowledge with the rest of the world?Enilorac said:Learn things on your own.
To a point, I take it.Enilorac said:Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia have been favorite research topics of mine.
So you won't be considered parsimonious?Enilorac said:Why should I impart to you, for free, the knowledge I spent time acquiring?
Thank you for an honest answer.If you'd like to know more, there's plenty out there.
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