James wrote:

But tests have since proved that a 0.023-pound piece could
cause catastrophic damage under the worst circumstances. NASA now says
it has reduced the size of debris that will fall off of the tank to
0.01 pound or less, but admits that the only way to know is to monitor
actual launching conditions.



IOW, wait until another one blows up and figure out what else happened that
they should have known about to begin with.

let me ask you something, James: people stand a much worse risk of dying
in an automobile accident than they do flying the space shuttle.

Does that mean that nobody should drive a car?

Life is risky. There's no way around that. Get over it.

--
Terrell Miller


"Every gardener knows nature's random cruelty"
-Paul Simon George Harrison