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Old July 29th 05, 05:31 AM
Asimov
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Default NASA Goofs Again.

Hi,

The present shuttle mission Discovery STS-114 is once again proving that
an education can turn an above average intelligence into moronic idiocy.
The problem with the falling foam from the external fuel tank has
already cost 7 lives and it could have caused the loss of 7 more this
time.

Question: who is the moron who imagined that a piece of styrofoam would
stay stuck to a surface flying at thousands of miles per hour?

Question: who is the idiot that decided that basically sound-proofing
tiles glued to the shuttle body would survive the impact of a piece of
frozen ice and foam falling off the said external tank at thousands of
miles per hour?

Suggestion: insulate the external tank from the inside and leave the
hard metal shell bare on the outside.

Suggestion: when the shuttle is on the launch pad run a continuous
stream of water flowing over the tank to keep it free of ice.

Suggestion: build a proper one-piece ablative heatshield on the
underside of the shuttle like it was originally intended to have and
replace this shield after each mission, instead of gluing new tiles into
the broken gaps.

Suggestion: fire the above moron and idiot.

Suggestion: instead of spending still one more billion dollars and
wasting another 2 years in redesigning the external fuel tank foam
isulation, give Chris Rutan (winner of X-Prize) 1 billion dollars to
come up with a shuttle design that works.

A*s*i*m*o*v



 




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