Kent Betts
July 5th 03, 11:39 AM
> > clipped the following from the LA TImes.
> > "In the immediate aftermath of the accident, shuttle director Ron Dittemore said
> > that even if NASA had known the shuttle was crippled, there was nothing it could
> > do about it."
Looschanj wrote:
> Not exactly, and we've been through this before. It would be more accurate to
> say he said "we can't do that" to most common uninformed second guesses. Like
> tile repair, etc.
Seems that the LA Times has overstated the contents of Dittemore's
remarks and added an element of interpretation. Playing around with
semantics. I think Dittemore would agree with the logic of the
premise as the LA Times has presented it, that a tile repair was the
only thing that could have saved it, we couldn't repair the tile,
there was nothing that could have been done. That being said, I would
prefer that the LA Times not add their editorial view to what we have
here, a paraphrase that is being passed off as a "quote".
> > "In the immediate aftermath of the accident, shuttle director Ron Dittemore said
> > that even if NASA had known the shuttle was crippled, there was nothing it could
> > do about it."
Looschanj wrote:
> Not exactly, and we've been through this before. It would be more accurate to
> say he said "we can't do that" to most common uninformed second guesses. Like
> tile repair, etc.
Seems that the LA Times has overstated the contents of Dittemore's
remarks and added an element of interpretation. Playing around with
semantics. I think Dittemore would agree with the logic of the
premise as the LA Times has presented it, that a tile repair was the
only thing that could have saved it, we couldn't repair the tile,
there was nothing that could have been done. That being said, I would
prefer that the LA Times not add their editorial view to what we have
here, a paraphrase that is being passed off as a "quote".