The Shuttle Columbia Whitewash

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:04:39 +0200, "Dr. Flonkenstein"
wrote:

Being tired of lurking, on Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:15:43 +0000, rocky posted:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:34:43 +0200, "Dr. Flonkenstein"
wrote:

Being tired of lurking, on Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:44:55 +0000, rocky posted:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:34:34 +0100, Peter J Ross
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:57:37 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from Lynndel Humphreys:

Welcome never heard of that group....... will visit

Top-posters are welcome everywhere.

like herpes in a brothel.
like jews in a mosque.
like chemical weapon attacks on the us.
like a pregnant woman in soc.men
like a tampong string in your bloody mary.

"Peter J Ross" wrote in message
news:f38qkvgacqbdkcrhtqeu89q8gvj8cqr1hc@4ax. com...
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:21:07 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from mimus:

So it seems there were dozens of anguished emails from lower- and
middle- level engineers at NASA begging or demanding that the shuttle
Columbia crew do a walk and inspect what damage they incurred on that
final liftoff, and the upper level engineers and managers refused to
order it, or to use satellite photography to examine the shuttle, or
anything else but send the bird and crew to death.

If there was ever a case for at least reckless and in my fervent
opinion wanton manslaughter by management of any Federal agency, here
you have it.

But they'll retire with their pensions. There'll be no trials. And
the whitewash will hold.

I'm crossposting because John Maxson can probably give a definitive
reply to this.

--
PJR :-)
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Being tired of lurking, on Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:32:55 +0000, rocky posted:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:04:39 +0200, "Dr. Flonkenstein"
wrote:

Being tired of lurking, on Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:15:43 +0000, rocky posted:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:34:43 +0200, "Dr. Flonkenstein"
wrote:

Being tired of lurking, on Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:44:55 +0000, rocky posted:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:34:34 +0100, Peter J Ross
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:57:37 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from Lynndel Humphreys:

Welcome never heard of that group....... will visit

Top-posters are welcome everywhere.

like herpes in a brothel.
like jews in a mosque.
like chemical weapon attacks on the us.
like a pregnant woman in soc.men
like a tampong string in your bloody mary.
like a crossing of the SRB's.


"Peter J Ross" wrote in message
news:f38qkvgacqbdkcrhtqeu89q8gvj8cqr1hc@4ax .com...
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:21:07 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from mimus:

So it seems there were dozens of anguished emails from lower- and
middle- level engineers at NASA begging or demanding that the shuttle
Columbia crew do a walk and inspect what damage they incurred on that
final liftoff, and the upper level engineers and managers refused to
order it, or to use satellite photography to examine the shuttle, or
anything else but send the bird and crew to death.

If there was ever a case for at least reckless and in my fervent
opinion wanton manslaughter by management of any Federal agency, here
you have it.

But they'll retire with their pensions. There'll be no trials. And
the whitewash will hold.

I'm crossposting because John Maxson can probably give a definitive
reply to this.

--
PJR :-)
mhm34x8
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Peter J Ross, you will know my name is Steve Leyland when I lay my vengeance
upon thee:

: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:21:07 -0400, a team of surgeons from
: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
: growth from mimus:
:
:: So it seems there were dozens of anguished emails from lower- and
:: middle- level engineers at NASA begging or demanding that the shuttle
:: Columbia crew do a walk and inspect what damage they incurred on that
:: final liftoff, and the upper level engineers and managers refused to
:: order it, or to use satellite photography to examine the shuttle, or
:: anything else but send the bird and crew to death.
::
:: If there was ever a case for at least reckless and in my fervent
:: opinion wanton manslaughter by management of any Federal agency, here
:: you have it.
::
:: But they'll retire with their pensions. There'll be no trials. And
:: the whitewash will hold.
:
: I'm crossposting because John Maxson can probably give a definitive
: reply to this.

I doubt if John Maxson could answer an eleven-plus exam.

--
Steve Leyland
mhm32x16 Smeeter#35
flower: three 6 four 9 five 8 eight 9
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Being tired of lurking, on Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:15:37 +0100, Peter J Ross
posted:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:04:54 +0100, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from Steve Leyland:

Peter J Ross, you will know my name is Steve Leyland when I lay my vengeance
upon thee:

: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:21:07 -0400, a team of surgeons from
: alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
: growth from mimus:
:
:: So it seems there were dozens of anguished emails from lower- and
:: middle- level engineers at NASA begging or demanding that the shuttle
:: Columbia crew do a walk and inspect what damage they incurred on that
:: final liftoff, and the upper level engineers and managers refused to
:: order it, or to use satellite photography to examine the shuttle, or
:: anything else but send the bird and crew to death.
::
:: If there was ever a case for at least reckless and in my fervent
:: opinion wanton manslaughter by management of any Federal agency, here
:: you have it.
::
:: But they'll retire with their pensions. There'll be no trials. And
:: the whitewash will hold.
:
: I'm crossposting because John Maxson can probably give a definitive
: reply to this.

I doubt if John Maxson could answer an eleven-plus exam.

I doubt if John Maxson could answer a telephone.

I doubt if John Maxson could f40r 4 w3bp493.

--
mhm 27x12

Just two days ago in The Bronx section of NYC, the complete blueprints
of the World Trade Center building/tower #7, one of the burned down
towers, were found in a garbage heap in front of a bagel shop in the
Bronx. Larry Silverstein refuses to comment. Mayor Bloomberg has
offered as an explanation that such a feat and discovery is not
conventional nor kosher. Here is another colossal blunder.


"Space Shuttle CAIB BOARD'S
Haarp Weapon Coverup"

by Jim Rarey

IMPORTANT POINTS:

** Admiral Harold Gehman, Chairman of the CAIB, cited a sensor
reading from the new location saying, "This baby went up 350 degrees
in about two seconds" (hardly a gradual increase). Another sensor
spiked from a normal reading of 600 degrees to 1200 degrees [this is
the specialized function of a Haarp maser beam]. We don't have to
worry about the media reminding Gehman, or the public, of these
pronouncements. They have already been dumped in the memory hole.

** Further evidence of an extraordinary event was found in parts
recovered from the shuttle. An actuator made of stainless steel had a
hole burned through it that could not have been caused by the hot
plasma, which flows like water over surfaces.

** Paul A. Czysz, an emeritus professor at Parks College of
Engineering and Aviation at St. Louis University in Missouri and a
long-time consultant to NASA said, "Boy, to have that thing cut
through the actuator, that's tough. They are steel and they are built
to be pretty tough. So it had to be a very, very high-temperature jet
cutting through that portion of the craft." He likened it to a
welder's torch where the spot directly under the torch melts and the
rest gets hot but doesn't melt [like a HAARP microwave high intensity
focused weapons beam, similar to a laser you cannot see, i.e. a
"maser"].


ARTICLE: "Columbia – Accident or HAARP Shootdown"

The 238-page report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board
(CAIB) released this Tuesday (Volume I of six volumes

The (CAIB) report is prefaced with a Board Statement, an Executive
Summary and a Report Synopsis This critique will deal only with
Chapters 2 and 3 that purport to present a factual account of events
and findings involving the launch of the Columbia on January sixteenth
and its reentry into the earth's atmosphere on February first. Much
space is devoted in other chapters to how NASA's "culture" contributed
the disaster.

Volumes II through VI are more appendices of documents and transcripts
of the board's public hearings (although not of the over 200 sessions
of secret testimony to which only selected members of Congress will be
privy).

In Chapter 3 (Accident Analysis) the board states unequivocally and
without qualification that the physical cause of the accident was a
piece of insulating foam from the external tank striking the wing
shortly into the launch causing damage that allowed superheated air to
penetrate the leading-edge insulation of the wing on reentry
progressively melting the aluminum structure of the wing resulting in
aerodynamic forces that ultimately destroyed the craft.

As with many government documents, the devil is in the details. We
shall examine the evidence presented that is supposed to support the
conclusion. Most of the debunking information in this article comes
from the report itself. The balance is from CAIB press releases or
statements made at press conferences by board spokespersons.

First, there is credible evidence what came into contact with the wing
on launch was not foam. The insulating foam on the tank is orange in
color. Some engineers, including Shuttle Manager Ron Dittemore, noted
in viewing the only visual evidence they had of the liftoff that the
material was white, not orange. Several engineers thought the material
was a thin veneer of ice that would have dissipated into a cloud of
vapor on contact with the wing. This is exactly what the video shows
as the material disappears behind the wing and a white vapor-like
cloud appears below the wing.

NASA was hampered in its review of the launch by the poor quality of
visual evidence. The two films used were from a 35 mm camera located
17 miles from the launch and a video camera 26 miles away. Both
cameras were out of focus (a condition that had been present in
earlier launches). The report acknowledges the visuals were so poor
that the shape of the piece of (white) material could not be
determined.

Some orange material was found near the launch site by a park ranger
who described it as foam. At first an unidentified NASA official
denied it was from the shuttle saying it was part of a boat. When
asked by a local TV reporter to produce the material, the story
changed and it was admitted the material had been sent to NASA's
external tank examiners for examination. The reporter was told he
would receive a report the following day. He is still waiting.

The report uses five and a half pages to describe technical
specifications of the insulating foam, how it is mixed (the foam is a
combination of two chemicals) and how it is applied to the external
tank (a combination of spraying and hand application). Not once is the
color of the foam mentioned.

The board ran about 130 tests (called transport analysis) firing
pieces of (white) foam into various materials including a $1 million
mockup of Columbia's left wing trying to obtain damage consistent with
that required by their theory. On the seventh try on the wing mockup,
the hurtling foam blasted a 16-inch by 16-inch hole in the wing. Board
member Scott Hubbard, who supervised the testing said, "We have found
the smoking gun." That phrase was spread across newspapers and TV news
across the land.

However, there are a couple of problems with the test. First, there
was no shower of fine foam debris as the board had postulated (instead
of the vapor-like cloud observed in the real instance). The foam
ricocheted off the wing virtually intact.

The second problem is the imprecision of the test itself. Assumptions
used, as outlined in the report were; "the computed airflow around the
Shuttle stack when the foam was shed, the estimated aerodynamic
characteristics of the foam, the image analysis team's trajectory
estimates, and the size and shape of the bipod ramp."

Some might call that guessing at or even manufacturing a scenario,
particularly since the report concedes, "The undetermined and yet
certainly irregular shape of the foam introduced substantial
uncertainty about its estimated aerodynamic characteristics."

Nevertheless, CAIB and NASA spokespersons continue to dogmatically
state, without qualification, that foam hitting the wing during the
launch was the ultimate cause of the disaster and the media slavishly
repeats it.

The board's scenario for the sequence of events when the Columbia
reentered the earth's atmosphere is even more conflicted than its
launch fantasy. At some point in time the board realized it reentry
scenario had to be consistent with damage to the left wing during
lift-off, but not before NASA and the board itself had released
information that had to be spun or ignored. In the interest of
shortening this already too long article, only a couple of the more
egregious examples will be presented.

If prior damage to the wing had allowed superheated air (plasma) to
get past its outer layer of heat resistant tiles, the heat sensors
under the tiles would show gradual increases in temperature until the
melting point of various metals was reached or the sensors themselves
were destroyed.

After at least fifteen revisions of the time line showing temperatures
at various points in the route of the shuttle, the gradual increase in
temperatures (e.g. an increase of 50 to 60 degrees over five minutes)
was portrayed. The report included detailed analysis of four sensors
near the area the board had "estimated" the damage occurred, complete
with graphs.

In a weekly news conference reported on April 15th, the CAIB announced
a revised estimate of the spot of damage based in part on sensor
readings from a salvaged data recorder. It had recorded a temperature
spike about eight minutes after Columbia entered the atmosphere (at
the same time a digital photograph and at least two video cameras had
captured an apparent external strike of energy on the shuttle). The
only reference in the report to this photographic evidence is to
concede debris started falling from the shuttle earlier than
originally thought.

Admiral Harold Gehman, Chairman of the CAIB, cited a sensor reading
from the new location saying, "This baby went up 350 degrees in about
two seconds" (hardly a gradual increase). Another sensor spiked from a
normal reading of 600 degrees to 1200 degrees [this is the specialized
function of a Haarp maser beam]. We don't have to worry about the
media reminding Gehman, or the public, of these pronouncements. They
have already been dumped in the memory hole.

Further evidence of an extraordinary event was found in parts
recovered from the shuttle. An actuator made of stainless steel had a
hole burned through it that could not have been caused by the hot
plasma, which flows like water over surfaces.

Paul A. Czysz, an emeritus professor at Parks College of Engineering
and Aviation at St. Louis University in Missouri and a long-time
consultant to NASA said, "Boy, to have that thing cut through the
actuator, that's tough. They are steel and they are built to be pretty
tough. So it had to be a very, very high-temperature jet cutting
through that portion of the craft." He likened it to a welder's torch
where the spot directly under the torch melts and the rest gets hot
but doesn't melt [like a HAARP microwave high intensity focused
weapons beam, similar to a laser you cannot see, i.e. a "maser"].

The board realized it needed to show how plasma could have melted the
stainless steel and create the hole observed in the recovered debris
along with the splashes of molten metal (which had re-solidified)
surrounding the hole. Did they flow superheated air (plasma) over
steel in a test chamber? No! They used a blowtorch and then announced
the plasma could have been responsible.

When the composition of the CAIB was announced the day after the Feb.
1st disaster, it was stacked with high-ranking military brass that had
responsibility for either research and development or actual command
responsibilities for directed energy weapons, i.e. electromagnetic
pulse (EMP). This, in part, led this author to title his first article
on the subject, "Columbia – Accident or Shootdown?"

However, if the report is to be believed (a big if), the offices of
the board members were decided before the accident and those named to
the board are merely the current occupants stationed in them.

If true, this raises an interesting question. Was the Columbia
involved in some kind of military testing of directed energy weapons?

YES YES YES.

It is unlikely that any event in the shuttle could have caused the
disaster. All physical and photographic evidence points to an external
strike of some form of directed energy on the shuttle.

The overall tone of the CAIB report may result in Congress killing the
NASA manned space program. This would not displease the military which
has made no secret of its desire to be in absolute control of inner
space [and have absolutely no human eye witnesses of what is actually
going on outside of our ionosphere].

In order to gain a full appreciation of the disingenuousness and
deceit of the CAIB investigation and report, the reader should review
this writer's previous articles on the subject. The title's are (in
chronological order):

Columbia – Accident or Shootdown

Columbia Investigation Controversies

Shuttle Probe – What They are Hiding

The articles can be accessed at

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/MediumRare/Archives.htm

Being tired of lurking, on Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:18:31 -0700, Lorrill Buyens
posted:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:44:27 +0200, little green men from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk abducted "Dr. Flonkenstein"
, who protested:

Being tired of lurking, on Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:32:55 +0000, rocky posted:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:04:39 +0200, "Dr. Flonkenstein"
wrote:

Being tired of lurking, on Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:15:43 +0000, rocky posted:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:34:43 +0200, "Dr. Flonkenstein"
wrote:

Being tired of lurking, on Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:44:55 +0000, rocky posted:

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:34:34 +0100, Peter J Ross
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:57:37 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from Lynndel Humphreys:

Welcome never heard of that group....... will visit

Top-posters are welcome everywhere.

like herpes in a brothel.
like jews in a mosque.
like chemical weapon attacks on the us.
like a pregnant woman in soc.men
like a tampong string in your bloody mary.
like a crossing of the SRB's.
like a wedgie in your BVD's.
like a hydrogen leak in your ET.

"Peter J Ross" wrote in message
news:f38qkvgacqbdkcrhtqeu89q8gvj8cqr1hc@4 ax.com...
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:21:07 -0400, a team of surgeons from
alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk removed the following benign
growth from mimus:

So it seems there were dozens of anguished emails from lower- and
middle- level engineers at NASA begging or demanding that the shuttle
Columbia crew do a walk and inspect what damage they incurred on that
final liftoff, and the upper level engineers and managers refused to
order it, or to use satellite photography to examine the shuttle, or
anything else but send the bird and crew to death.

If there was ever a case for at least reckless and in my fervent
opinion wanton manslaughter by management of any Federal agency, here
you have it.

But they'll retire with their pensions. There'll be no trials. And
the whitewash will hold.

I'm crossposting because John Maxson can probably give a definitive
reply to this.

(Jim Rarey) wrote in message om...

Just two days ago in The Bronx section of NYC, the complete blueprints
of the World Trade Center building/tower #7, one of the burned down
towers, were found in a garbage heap in front of a bagel shop in the
Bronx. Larry Silverstein refuses to comment. Mayor Bloomberg has
offered as an explanation that such a feat and discovery is not
conventional nor kosher. Here is another colossal blunder.


"Space Shuttle CAIB BOARD'S
Haarp Weapon Coverup"

by Jim Rarey

IMPORTANT POINTS:

** Admiral Harold Gehman, Chairman of the CAIB, cited a sensor
reading from the new location saying, "This baby went up 350 degrees
in about two seconds" (hardly a gradual increase). Another sensor
spiked from a normal reading of 600 degrees to 1200 degrees [this is
the specialized function of a Haarp maser beam]. We don't have to
worry about the media reminding Gehman, or the public, of these
pronouncements. They have already been dumped in the memory hole.

** Further evidence of an extraordinary event was found in parts
recovered from the shuttle. An actuator made of stainless steel had a
hole burned through it that could not have been caused by the hot
plasma, which flows like water over surfaces.

** Paul A. Czysz, an emeritus professor at Parks College of
Engineering and Aviation at St. Louis University in Missouri and a
long-time consultant to NASA said, "Boy, to have that thing cut
through the actuator, that's tough. They are steel and they are built
to be pretty tough. So it had to be a very, very high-temperature jet
cutting through that portion of the craft." He likened it to a
welder's torch where the spot directly under the torch melts and the
rest gets hot but doesn't melt [like a HAARP microwave high intensity
focused weapons beam, similar to a laser you cannot see, i.e. a
"maser"].


ARTICLE: "Columbia ? Accident or HAARP Shootdown"

The 238-page report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board
(CAIB) released this Tuesday (Volume I of six volumes

The (CAIB) report is prefaced with a Board Statement, an Executive
Summary and a Report Synopsis This critique will deal only with
Chapters 2 and 3 that purport to present a factual account of events
and findings involving the launch of the Columbia on January sixteenth
and its reentry into the earth's atmosphere on February first. Much
space is devoted in other chapters to how NASA's "culture" contributed
the disaster.

Volumes II through VI are more appendices of documents and transcripts
of the board's public hearings (although not of the over 200 sessions
of secret testimony to which only selected members of Congress will be
privy).

In Chapter 3 (Accident Analysis) the board states unequivocally and
without qualification that the physical cause of the accident was a
piece of insulating foam from the external tank striking the wing
shortly into the launch causing damage that allowed superheated air to
penetrate the leading-edge insulation of the wing on reentry
progressively melting the aluminum structure of the wing resulting in
aerodynamic forces that ultimately destroyed the craft.

As with many government documents, the devil is in the details. We
shall examine the evidence presented that is supposed to support the
conclusion. Most of the debunking information in this article comes
from the report itself. The balance is from CAIB press releases or
statements made at press conferences by board spokespersons.

First, there is credible evidence what came into contact with the wing
on launch was not foam. The insulating foam on the tank is orange in
color. Some engineers, including Shuttle Manager Ron Dittemore, noted
in viewing the only visual evidence they had of the liftoff that the
material was white, not orange. Several engineers thought the material
was a thin veneer of ice that would have dissipated into a cloud of
vapor on contact with the wing. This is exactly what the video shows
as the material disappears behind the wing and a white vapor-like
cloud appears below the wing.

NASA was hampered in its review of the launch by the poor quality of
visual evidence. The two films used were from a 35 mm camera located
17 miles from the launch and a video camera 26 miles away. Both
cameras were out of focus (a condition that had been present in
earlier launches). The report acknowledges the visuals were so poor
that the shape of the piece of (white) material could not be
determined.

Some orange material was found near the launch site by a park ranger
who described it as foam. At first an unidentified NASA official
denied it was from the shuttle saying it was part of a boat. When
asked by a local TV reporter to produce the material, the story
changed and it was admitted the material had been sent to NASA's
external tank examiners for examination. The reporter was told he
would receive a report the following day. He is still waiting.

The report uses five and a half pages to describe technical
specifications of the insulating foam, how it is mixed (the foam is a
combination of two chemicals) and how it is applied to the external
tank (a combination of spraying and hand application). Not once is the
color of the foam mentioned.

The board ran about 130 tests (called transport analysis) firing
pieces of (white) foam into various materials including a $1 million
mockup of Columbia's left wing trying to obtain damage consistent with
that required by their theory. On the seventh try on the wing mockup,
the hurtling foam blasted a 16-inch by 16-inch hole in the wing. Board
member Scott Hubbard, who supervised the testing said, "We have found
the smoking gun." That phrase was spread across newspapers and TV news
across the land.

However, there are a couple of problems with the test. First, there
was no shower of fine foam debris as the board had postulated (instead
of the vapor-like cloud observed in the real instance). The foam
ricocheted off the wing virtually intact.

The second problem is the imprecision of the test itself. Assumptions
used, as outlined in the report were; "the computed airflow around the
Shuttle stack when the foam was shed, the estimated aerodynamic
characteristics of the foam, the image analysis team's trajectory
estimates, and the size and shape of the bipod ramp."

Some might call that guessing at or even manufacturing a scenario,
particularly since the report concedes, "The undetermined and yet
certainly irregular shape of the foam introduced substantial
uncertainty about its estimated aerodynamic characteristics."

Nevertheless, CAIB and NASA spokespersons continue to dogmatically
state, without qualification, that foam hitting the wing during the
launch was the ultimate cause of the disaster and the media slavishly
repeats it.

The board's scenario for the sequence of events when the Columbia
reentered the earth's atmosphere is even more conflicted than its
launch fantasy. At some point in time the board realized it reentry
scenario had to be consistent with damage to the left wing during
lift-off, but not before NASA and the board itself had released
information that had to be spun or ignored. In the interest of
shortening this already too long article, only a couple of the more
egregious examples will be presented.

If prior damage to the wing had allowed superheated air (plasma) to
get past its outer layer of heat resistant tiles, the heat sensors
under the tiles would show gradual increases in temperature until the
melting point of various metals was reached or the sensors themselves
were destroyed.

After at least fifteen revisions of the time line showing temperatures
at various points in the route of the shuttle, the gradual increase in
temperatures (e.g. an increase of 50 to 60 degrees over five minutes)
was portrayed. The report included detailed analysis of four sensors
near the area the board had "estimated" the damage occurred, complete
with graphs.

In a weekly news conference reported on April 15th, the CAIB announced
a revised estimate of the spot of damage based in part on sensor
readings from a salvaged data recorder. It had recorded a temperature
spike about eight minutes after Columbia entered the atmosphere (at
the same time a digital photograph and at least two video cameras had
captured an apparent external strike of energy on the shuttle). The
only reference in the report to this photographic evidence is to
concede debris started falling from the shuttle earlier than
originally thought.

Admiral Harold Gehman, Chairman of the CAIB, cited a sensor reading
from the new location saying, "This baby went up 350 degrees in about
two seconds" (hardly a gradual increase). Another sensor spiked from a
normal reading of 600 degrees to 1200 degrees [this is the specialized
function of a Haarp maser beam]. We don't have to worry about the
media reminding Gehman, or the public, of these pronouncements. They
have already been dumped in the memory hole.

Further evidence of an extraordinary event was found in parts
recovered from the shuttle. An actuator made of stainless steel had a
hole burned through it that could not have been caused by the hot
plasma, which flows like water over surfaces.

Paul A. Czysz, an emeritus professor at Parks College of Engineering
and Aviation at St. Louis University in Missouri and a long-time
consultant to NASA said, "Boy, to have that thing cut through the
actuator, that's tough. They are steel and they are built to be pretty
tough. So it had to be a very, very high-temperature jet cutting
through that portion of the craft." He likened it to a welder's torch
where the spot directly under the torch melts and the rest gets hot
but doesn't melt [like a HAARP microwave high intensity focused
weapons beam, similar to a laser you cannot see, i.e. a "maser"].

The board realized it needed to show how plasma could have melted the
stainless steel and create the hole observed in the recovered debris
along with the splashes of molten metal (which had re-solidified)
surrounding the hole. Did they flow superheated air (plasma) over
steel in a test chamber? No! They used a blowtorch and then announced
the plasma could have been responsible.

When the composition of the CAIB was announced the day after the Feb.
1st disaster, it was stacked with high-ranking military brass that had
responsibility for either research and development or actual command
responsibilities for directed energy weapons, i.e. electromagnetic
pulse (EMP). This, in part, led this author to title his first article
on the subject, "Columbia ? Accident or Shootdown?"

However, if the report is to be believed (a big if), the offices of
the board members were decided before the accident and those named to
the board are merely the current occupants stationed in them.

If true, this raises an interesting question. Was the Columbia
involved in some kind of military testing of directed energy weapons?

YES YES YES.

It is unlikely that any event in the shuttle could have caused the
disaster. All physical and photographic evidence points to an external
strike of some form of directed energy on the shuttle.

The overall tone of the CAIB report may result in Congress killing the
NASA manned space program. This would not displease the military which
has made no secret of its desire to be in absolute control of inner
space [and have absolutely no human eye witnesses of what is actually
going on outside of our ionosphere].

In order to gain a full appreciation of the disingenuousness and
deceit of the CAIB investigation and report, the reader should review
this writer's previous articles on the subject. The title's are (in
chronological order):

Columbia ? Accident or Shootdown

Columbia Investigation Controversies

Shuttle Probe ? What They are Hiding

The articles can be accessed at

http://www.worldnewsstand.net/MediumRare/Archives.htm


how can the public be so gullible?

D. Rumsfeld

In article ,
(Heidi Haus) wrote:

The public has ALWAYS been gullible and always will be. That is the
given that the secret orders dictate, espcially in non-terrestrial
affairs.

You're a loon. Seek psychiatric help immediately and stop crossposting
your horsecrap to any sci.space groups.

--
Herb Schaltegger, B.S., J.D.
Reformed Aerospace Engineer
"Heisenberg might have been here."
~ Anonymous

"Herb Schaltegger" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Heidi Haus) wrote:

The public has ALWAYS been gullible and always will be. That is the
given that the secret orders dictate, espcially in non-terrestrial
affairs.

You're a loon. Seek psychiatric help immediately and stop crossposting
your horsecrap to any sci.space groups.

Yeah, besides we all know it was just another conspiracy to take everybody's
mind off the crossed-booster conspiracy of the Challenger "accident" anyway.
And if our government would just be a little more honest about Hangar 18 and
the faeries they wouldn't have to blow up shuttles and cover up the REAL
reasons anyway!

(I've been reading this NG too much)