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Old February 19th 05, 02:46 AM
Charleston
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"Pat Flannery" wrote:
Charleston wrote:

The best motion picture film photography of the smoke puffs at launch,
that is the cameras positioned with a direct angle to observe the
start-up tranisent as to location, direction of smoke, size, etcetera,
all failed to operate! The odds of that failure being coincidence are
dim, but it did happen that way.


And your point is?


That is was not a coincidence and the film issue was never adequately
resolved.

http://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v3appn.htm Page N-74)

"7) Factors or Anomalies Not Ruled Out
The pattern of camera locations of the items that failed does not appear to
be a random pattern. The grouping of failed items cannot be rationalized on
the basis of purely statistical rationale without reaching an extremely high
improbability estimate.

It cannot be explained why the cameras on the MLP deck, which according to
all evidence should have been in a more favorable environment than the
cameras on the FSS, had a high failure percentage, while the FSS cameras had
no failures.

The fact that the most important cameras, in terms of direct viewing of the
critical event at lift-off, were among the failed items is only partially
explainable as a random statistic. The percent of failed items to total MLP
items is 32 percent. Of the nine failed items, four are considered most
important as directly viewing the smoke event. The percent of critical items
to failed items is 44 percent.

Other factors about which there is insufficient evidence to report will be
the subject of continuing investigation."

As for your inability to see the smoke, please don't blame me. It takes

a
lot of bandwidth to put up MPEG II or AVI. I will put up some higher
resolution photography later tonight for a limited timeframe. Personally,
I can see plenty of black smoke up to about 3.4 seconds, and subsequently
I see significant diffuse smoke brightly illuminated by the light of the
SRB flames.

That stuff coming off the side of the tank, and falling into the area
behind the ET isn't related to the SRB problem, it shows up on every
Shuttle launch; it's either some sort of venting from the ET or frost
falling off of its exterior surface.


You don't know that for sure. The 3 dimensional origin of most of the smoke
is from the right half of the vehicle. Undoubtedly some of the smoke is
from ET offgassing and a little frost; nevertheless, smoke was conclusivley
seen by LMSC as early as T+15 seconds from the E-217 70mm film and in the 40
to 45 second timeframe with "solid material" being visible from the same
camera.

Also, I conclude that the "STS 51-L JSC Visual Data Analysis Sub-Team"
and the team at LMSC got it right when they saw smoke and "solid
material" as late as 45 seconds emanating from the same region of the
vehicle.

Are we talking about the SRB here, or some other part of the vehicle?


From the area where smoke was seen shortly after lift-off.

Unfortuantely, they were overruled by the film team at KSC. As you
probably know, it is KSC's views that are reflected in the final
Presidential Commission report.


As we have photos showing the plume coming out of the SRB and impinging on
the ET's surface, followed by the failure of the ET, and also detailed
extremely clear film of the burning of the O-rings at the field joint
during SRB ignition with a plume of smoke exiting the SRB, this whole
thing is about as open and shut case as it's possible to get in regards to
the cause of the accident.


So do you conclude that NASA could not have overlooked multiple failures,
with one failure initiating others in a cascading series of events outside
of the current leaky field joint failure as reflected in the STS 51-L
history books? Please keep an open mind.

Daniel


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Old February 19th 05, 02:48 AM
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"Pat Flannery" wrote:

You notice though that the the theory has changed very considerably from
it's first incarnation; now the problem's with the SRB, not the Shuttle's
RCS.


Observation and discussion itself is not theory. I have tried to present
everything I have ever written here in fair context with my usual and
customary sarcasm. I ask you to do likewise.

Daniel


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Old February 19th 05, 08:41 AM
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:33:18 -0600, Pat Flannery
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You notice though that the the theory has changed very considerably from
it's first incarnation; now the problem's with the SRB, not the
Shuttle's RCS.


....Yeah, same bull**** direction "scott" goes with his bogus theory.
Figures.

OM

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Old February 21st 05, 10:37 PM
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OM wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:33:18 -0600, Pat Flannery
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You notice though that the the theory has changed very considerably

from
it's first incarnation; now the problem's with the SRB, not the
Shuttle's RCS.


...Yeah, same bull**** direction "scott" goes with his bogus theory.
Figures.

OM

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it's never changed, "o" ring boy. are you smoking crack
again?

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Old February 22nd 05, 02:17 AM
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On 21 Feb 2005 13:37:48 -0800, wrote:

it's never changed, "o" ring boy. are you smoking crack
again?


....Whoops! The little ******* got out of Killfile Hell *again*!

PLONK

....Back in you go. Now *stay* there, asshat.

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Old February 23rd 05, 09:00 AM
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:22:39 -0600, Pat Flannery
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Charleston, J*** M*****'s ******* kid wrote:


....Who cares? It's all lies anyway.

You know, there's a far better video of the smoke plume out there than
that; in fact, I can't even see the smoke plume in that crappy and
distorted video. The other video is in color in color and a _lot_ closer up.


....Then again, Patrick, you're neither a washed-up janitor with a
mad-on for his former employers, nor one of his genetically-inferior
excuses for offspring.

OM

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Old February 23rd 05, 04:24 PM
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OM wrote:

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:22:39 -0600, Pat Flannery
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Charleston, J*** M*****'s ******* kid wrote:





Watch your quotations there, I did not write that- that happens again
and it's off to the killfile with you.

Pat
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Old February 23rd 05, 07:58 PM
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:24:20 -0600, Pat Flannery
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Watch your quotations there, I did not write that- that happens again
and it's off to the killfile with you.


....True, you did *not* write that. Doesn't change the validity of the
change, tho. I mea culprit with glee, so let the little *******'s
vehemence fall upon me instead of thee!

OM

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Old February 24th 05, 02:01 AM
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"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:24:20 -0600, Pat Flannery
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...True, you did *not* write that. Doesn't change the validity of the
change, tho. I mea culprit with glee, so let the little *******'s
vehemence fall upon me instead of thee!


OM! Facts are an amazing thing. How much do you think you really know about
the Challenger disaster? The key word is "think". Everything about that
disaster and NASA's account of that disaster hinges on the validity and
integrity of one 15 second clip of film shot from Playalinda Beach Universal
Camera Site 10, camera E207.

True or false?

No help please.

Daniel


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Old February 24th 05, 02:16 AM
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Charleston wrote:

OM! Facts are an amazing thing. How much do you think you really know about
the Challenger disaster? The key word is "think". Everything about that
disaster and NASA's account of that disaster hinges on the validity and
integrity of one 15 second clip of film shot from Playalinda Beach Universal
Camera Site 10, camera E207.

True or false?


False

You do realize that there were several cameras tracking the ascent, and
buttloads of telemetry radiod down, yes?


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