Booster Crossing

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 08:43:36 +0000, Steve wrote:

Forgive me for jumping into this debate WAY late in the game,

S'ok... questions are both desireable and a neccessity

but what is the significance of this SRB crossing that John
Maxson is always talking about?

JTM has delusions that proving a fireball crossing, as physically
impossible as it was, will somehow discredit the finding that an
o-ring failure caused the accident.

I've watched the tapes and I don't see it.

Because it didn't happen. It couldn't have happened because of the
physical constraints of the situation. JTM has never offered a
tenable explanation as to _how_ it could possibly have happened.
All he does is stand in the middle of sci.space.shuttle and scream
endlessly that "THE BOOSTERS CROSSED!"... ad nauseum.

Even if they did cross, what would be so significant about it
anyways?

If the boosters had crossed then the left booster would have been
the one with the breach and flare. Thus JTM claimsthat the findings
of a failed o-ring would have to have been a NASA fabrication.

The fact that the flare was observed in the right SRB well before
the breakup, and was caught on film, means nothing to JTM. He just
says that the films were either of a hydrogen tank fire (said fire
existing only in his mind) or were faked by NASA... even the ones
that weren't taken by NASA.

This is important to JTM because he has his own incoherently
expressed story about what destroyed Challenger... that being an
intentional act of sabotage and murder by the men and women of NASA
at the orders of a military cabal led by Ronald Reagan. And no...
I'm _not_ making that up. Where Challenger is conserned JTM is
quite delusional.

Enlighten me please.

All girls are catgirls.

Steve

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Chuck Stewart
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