EBay deleted several items billed as debris from the space shuttle Columbia
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html
was wondering how long it would take people to auction off the debris
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EBay deleted several items billed as debris from the space shuttle Columbia
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html
was wondering how long it would take people to auction off the debris
egats, imagine how cold kelvin would be!!!Quote:
reminds me of the stupidest ad I've ever seen. It was for the McDonald's McBlizzard or whatever their Frosty was called. The tagline was:
"It's even colder in Celsius"
a linke about tiles
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a linke about tiles
Hey, how did you know my last name???
(Linke) :D
Reason 445,304,693 why I don't watch CNN. The first reason is paula zahn. :DQuote:
Originally posted by gdstudios
This is pretty silly on the part of CNN.
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
I'm really tired of the media in general.
I tuned into MSNBC this morning and watched this somber faced host staring intently in the camera saying "We only know as much as you do. And we wish we could provide you with more. But there is one thing that we CAN do. We can interview experts so that YOU can see what their insight on this is. We understand how important this is to you, but we can't offer much more. Blah blah blah."
Now take that and make it 3 times more poetic and 7 times more dramatic. Then you have exactly what I watched.
I mean geez...this is day 3 for crying out loud! I don't want 24 hour news coverage of a 3 day old story. Isn't there anything else they can talk about??? :rolleyes:
After sitting through that somber speech, I flipped over to Fox News and was greeted by a HUGE "TRAGEDY IN THE SKY" banner. Why can't they call it "Columbia Disaster"? Why does it have to be catchy??!
Bleh.
That's the media for you though. They'll be doing 24 hour coverage of this for the next 2 months. Then we'll have a Christmas/New Years special on the "Colubmia Catastrophe: 10 months later".
Then we'll have an anniversary program next year.
These last 2 days have made me renew my vow to not watch the news on TV anymore.
I'll stick with the net. :)
Clif
8 times the speed of light? Who writes this junk?
you should all watch BBC 24 :)
Oh completely agree. Really starting to get on my last nerve. They over dramatize everything! Just cause we don't like to hear Paula, doesn't mean we don't like to see her. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by clifgriffin
I'm really tired of the media in general.
Bah! I'll take my ethnocentric news over anything produced overseas any day! :DQuote:
Originally posted by aversion
you should all watch BBC 24 :)
Teach her how to smile and look genuinely happy and I'll agree. :DQuote:
Originally posted by gdstudios
Oh completely agree. Really starting to get on my last nerve. They over dramatize everything! Just cause we don't like to hear Paula, doesn't mean we don't like to see her. ;)
Clif
Awww, c'mon man Cliffy? :D You know you like her just the way she is.Quote:
Originally posted by clifgriffin
Teach her how to smile and look genuinely happy and I'll agree. :D
Clif
Erm.Quote:
Originally posted by gdstudios
Awww, c'mon man Cliffy? :D You know you like her just the way she is.
No I don't. :D
The fox news babes are much better. ;)
Hmm...lets see. We have Laurie Duhe...and what's her face that fills in on the morning program??
Clif
Holy gosh, she is a babe!!!!!!! What's her name again? :confused:Quote:
Originally posted by clifgriffin
...and what's her face that fills in on the morning program??
Dari Alexander is hot. Although she looked better with her previous haircut. :)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1216,00.html
Here's who I was thinking of...that picture is crap though.
Clif
Which one, Hannity or Colmes?
Ah. I was thinking of someone else. Looking...
Well there are plenty of others...I haven't watched lately though. ;)
Clif
shucks, can't find her in the bios section. Heather Nauert's nice, but i'm thinking of someone else who's on in the mornings sometimes.
Oh my...yes..
I completly forgot about her.
Forget Juliet!
Just to interrupt your very in-depth report on who is the hottest newscaster, but I was just reading the latest release from NASA that was saying the shuttle had to use it's thrusters to correct for drag on the left side of the craft just minutes before it disintegrated, and this drag could be attributed to loose, or a loss of heat-shielding tiles.
Now, I don't know about you guys, but I've got a tube of Super Bonder in the kitchen that I'm willing to donate to NASA. Is anyone else prepared to invest the $5, or is that too much to ask?
OK, humour aside, you'd think that they'd have developed something to stick those things on with a little more firmly. I remember the first time the shuttle flew and they were talking about the loss of tiles. And it's still happening, 20 years later.
as I said before, they used to carry heat shielding tile replacement kits but they were canned in budget cuts. It's quite common that they come off.
On the BBC they showed an image from the shuttle in orbit, looking down at the earth and you could see a huge (from the perspective I got) dent in the wing. It couldn't have been missed, they must have thought it would be ok.
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Originally posted by aversion
as I said before, they used to carry heat shielding tile replacement kits but they were canned in budget cuts. It's quite common that they come off.
Unbelievable. Like the puncture repair kit I had when I was a kid. The glue always sucked in them too.
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On the BBC they showed an image from the shuttle in orbit, looking down at the earth and you could see a huge (from the perspective I got) dent in the wing. It couldn't have been missed, they must have thought it would be ok.
Somebody's been watching that footage a little more closely, I imagine. To think that the description of flying the shuttle is 'a brick with wings' and I've watched enough Discovery to know that it is the form of the wing that creates lift. And they need all they can get.
Hmm, interesting, would you by any chance have a link to that picture, Aversion?
I was looking for one but can't find it anywhere online, I saw it on the channel 4 news in england. It's one of those images taken from orbit looking down at the earth.
actually here's a link to the story, but for some reason, even thought the story is about the images, they didn't seem to think that they needed to show the images.. weird.
http://www.itv.com/news/1670532.html
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Dramatic new pictures from Nasa of the space shuttle Columbia show a large dent and possibly a crack forming in the left wing of the craft as it orbited Earth a week ago.
You don't think that they're not showing them because...
Nah. maybe
Hey, that video in aversion's link has footage of the piece hitting the wing on take off and a shot of the dent in the wing.