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Koopa
02-01-2003, 12:28 PM
at 9 eastern today the crew of the space shuttle columbia, including the first israeli astronaut ever, died as the shuttle blew up over texas. As if the US and Israeli didnt have enough to deal with already:(
keep your eyes on the TV for more info.
Local doppler radar here shows hundreds of pieces still coming down.
Jason1
02-01-2003, 01:03 PM
Yea my parents mentioned this...kinda sucks...but **** happens I guess.
Jason1
02-01-2003, 01:07 PM
Originally posted by Neo
Local doppler radar here shows hundreds of pieces still coming down.
Oh you live in Texas Neo? Could you see it?
http://www.msxlive.com/images/sts1.gif
I live in Austin, which is about 3 and half hours south of Dallas. No I didn't hear anything. I was playing Warcraft III...:unsure:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.debris.ap/index.html
Jeff Hancock, a 29-year-old dentist, said he found a chunk of debris in his office. "It came through the roof of my office. It's about a foot-long metal bracket," he said.
I just heard Brian Williams say that body parts had also been found.
BlueFire
02-01-2003, 01:31 PM
-_- Bad stuff as usual.. This sucks a lot.. :unsure: I don't really know what to say.
GameMaster
02-01-2003, 01:54 PM
My mom woke me up this morning to tell it about it. It's sad. There were almost home.
The space shuttles are ticking time bombs. Columbia was manufactured in 1979! The technology aboard the space shuttles is so outdated it's ridiculous. The fact is that we have the new technology to build safer and more technologically advanced shuttles, but no one wants to fund it. It's pure politics. What it comes down to is that it will take a tragic event like this to get people to wake up.
It is a sad day.
GameKinG
02-01-2003, 02:39 PM
They said they have almost no clue how this could have happened. They repeatedly delayed the mission for safety and such....
Jonbo298
02-01-2003, 03:24 PM
I heard about it this morning. Its sad, but with old technology, it was bound to happen someday. And I heard that the other 2 major disasters occured around this time also. (Jan. 27th & Jan. 28) Interesting :unsure::sneaky:
gekko
02-01-2003, 03:45 PM
OMG LOOK! (http://www.aljazeera.net/news/america/2003/2/2-1-9.htm)
President Bush blew it up with his missle defense system, and now is saying Iraq did it, and is going to start a nuclear war over it!!! OMG!!!
Sorry, I was trying to be Almansurah :angel:
Carry on.
Almansurah
02-01-2003, 03:52 PM
Originally posted by gekko
OMG LOOK! (http://www.aljazeera.net/news/america/2003/2/2-1-9.htm)
President Bush blew it up with his missle defense system, and now is saying Iraq did it, and is going to start a nuclear war over it!!! OMG!!!
Sorry, I was trying to be Almansurah :angel:
Carry on.
:rolleyes:
Nice try.
Jewels
02-01-2003, 04:13 PM
Originally posted by Almansurah
:rolleyes:
Nice try.
true nice try... but anywho what caused the shuttle to blow? i was @ work and know nothing of this situation.... :(
GameMaster
02-01-2003, 04:15 PM
Originally posted by Jewels02
true nice try... but anywho what caused the shuttle to blow? i was @ work and know nothing of this situation.... :(
They said they have almost no clue how this could have happened. They repeatedly delayed the mission for safety and such....
gekko
02-01-2003, 04:17 PM
They said it's too early to speculate on the cause.
Mushlafa
02-01-2003, 04:19 PM
Originally posted by Jonbo298
I heard about it this morning. Its sad, but with old technology, it was bound to happen someday. And I heard that the other 2 major disasters occured around this time also. (Jan. 27th & Jan. 28) Interesting :unsure::sneaky:
weird how these things tend to happen around my birthday ;) january 27'th... or 26'th my dads or 30'th my moms bday... anyway yeah.. i think its pretty sad... and how come space shuttles dont have black boxes? I jus heard that on the news and now its gonna be even harder to find out what happened...
umm i think a black box will be usless when ur going 12,500 mph
ZebraRampage
02-01-2003, 08:33 PM
What I heard was that there was ice somewhere on the shuttle before launch, and when they launched the ice hit one of the wings and did something to the tiles on it. Well that could have been the cause, but they aren't sure. But if this was the cause then, just like when the Challenger blew up, it was caused because of the weather being too cold.
gekko
02-01-2003, 08:58 PM
Almansurah should like this.
Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance
Sat February 1, 2003 03:24 PM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew -- including the first Israeli in space -- was that it was God's retribution.
"We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said.
"God wants to show that his might is greater than the Americans. They have encroached on our country. God is avenging us," he said.
Iraqis are braced for a possible U.S.-led war to rid their country of any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons it may possess. Iraq denies it has such weapons.
Car mechanic Mohammed Jaber al-Tamini noted Israeli air force Colonel Ilan Ramon was among the dead when the shuttle broke up over the southwestern United States 16 minutes before its scheduled landing.
The 48-year-old Israeli astronaut was a fighter pilot in the Israeli air force. He was the youngest pilot in a team that bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981. Israel said the reactor was intended to develop nuclear weapons.
"Israel launched an aggression on us when it raided our nuclear reactor without any reason, now time has come and God has retaliated to their aggression," Tamini said.
There were no such signs of jubilation over the shuttle disaster in any of the Palestinian territories. The official response from the Palestinians was one of condolence.
"President (Yasser) Arafat and the Palestinian Authority offer their condolences to the six American families and the Israeli family who lost their loved ones in the catastrophe," Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official and spokesman, told Reuters.
Erekat said Arafat had sent President Bush a message of condolences over the loss of the NASA space agency's shuttle. The United States, Israel's closest ally, is the chief Middle East peace broker.
Professor S
02-01-2003, 08:59 PM
When shuttles come into the atmosphere they are going 5 miles a SECOND. Thats Mach 18! I agree that the use of old equipment is what caused the accident. No matter how well the shuttles were made or how much maintenance they go through, even a space shuttle has its limits when put under such forces so many times. I hope this causes more money to be invested into the space program rather than less, or tragedies like this will happen again.
It is a sad day.
Koopa
02-01-2003, 09:53 PM
Originally posted by gekko
Almansurah should like this.
i knew there was a reason we were attacking those assholes in iraq.
DeathsHand
02-01-2003, 10:10 PM
Originally posted by Koopa
i knew there was a reason we were attacking those assholes in iraq.
Yes, we are attacking them because they talk bad about us.
BlueFire
02-01-2003, 10:41 PM
Originally posted by DeathsHand
Yes, we are attacking them because they talk bad about us. Someone's going to cause some idiotic arguements...
;)
Jewels
02-01-2003, 10:49 PM
this situation really stinks... :( in which it had a first time israelian in space, so i guess that must mean that the job offer for becoming an astronaut wont be an option anymore.... anywho, just whole things just sucks hopefully nasa or whoever will come to the bottom of this and find out about what really happened, that and the craft was made in the 1970's sheesh~!!
DeathsHand
02-01-2003, 11:58 PM
Originally posted by BLueFire
Someone's going to cause some idiotic arguements...
;)
Not me... cuz I ain't gonna say anything else on that issue ;) I only said that because I found it funny how Koopa made it sound like we're going to attack them because they talk bad about us :sneaky:
Koopa
02-02-2003, 08:02 PM
Originally posted by DeathsHand
Not me... cuz I ain't gonna say anything else on that issue ;) I only said that because I found it funny how Koopa made it sound like we're going to attack them because they talk bad about us :sneaky:
its not because they talk bad about us...thats just one of the reasons..but it just goes to show that they really aren't very nice people:rolleyes: When they laugh at our tragedy, I figure thats good evidence regarding their intentions toward us...kinda like how we saw footage of some arabs celebrating on 9/11...not to say that all arabs are bad, by far, just that theres some out there who need to be delt with.
Seven7
02-03-2003, 02:07 AM
Originally posted by Bond
The space shuttles are ticking time bombs. Columbia was manufactured in 1979! The technology aboard the space shuttles is so outdated it's ridiculous.
Columbia was the oldest of the space shuttles, making it's first flight into orbit in 1981. It made 28 space flights.
There are only three left now: Discovery, Endeavour are two of them.
it's a sad day indeed...:(
CrOnO_LiNk
02-03-2003, 02:54 AM
Originally posted by Koopa
its not because they talk bad about us...thats just one of the reasons..but it just goes to show that they really aren't very nice people:rolleyes: When they laugh at our tragedy, I figure thats good evidence regarding their intentions toward us...kinda like how we saw footage of some arabs celebrating on 9/11...not to say that all arabs are bad, by far, just that theres some out there who need to be delt with.
Yes, I agree with 100% of what you said there. It's true. Febuary 1st was and still remains a sad tradgedy. Though, those bastards still laugh at it and are glad it occured... Don't get me wrong, I am not racist. I like all races and cultures... I just think, just like Koopa, that the bad assholes like Bin Laden and Saddam should be taken care of. They make Arabs and Iraqis look bad. Thanks to those 2 assholes and their alliances, they make this world and their own race seem like enemies.
I found out about this on the day it occured and felt bad. I mean, you live your whole life and work hard to go to school and have a future with your children but it all goes goodbye just because of a accident. This is sad, their life deserved better.
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