Omg

[Blondi]

Just heard on Fox New that the shuttle Columbia has disentigrated upon landing.....They are sayng that it is missing, but we all know better........This is very, very sad, and just wanted to let all know......:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[Dave2]

CNN page (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.landing.ap/index.html), if you want links :/

[x-chriz]

im watching it on TV, 7 people dead :cry: its a big tragedy! :cry:

god bless them!

[Wing]

Yeah, great thing to wake up to in the morning.

[ARKphoenix]

I just seen that on the news, its terrible :(

[I-NemesiS01]

Well, they didn't quite get to the landing stage really but yes it's very bad news.

[amalhyatt]

:( sad:( but thing is they saying it is terrorist, which i find so stupid, they just want to put more **** on top of us arab ppl heads:(

[Dave2]

/me wonders why his link to /. (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/01/1442213&mode=nested&tid=160) got edited out :wtf:. It's not as if /. is going to steal any traffic, and there are lots of informative comments attached amongst the 700-odd replies :wtf: .

[Loop]

Quite nasty, yes...

[[Keegs]]

'tis a tragedy :(



If people start saying its due to terrorists I will punch them :wtf:

Scud missiles dont reach that high and i doubt saddam/OBL have anything that can :wtf: It's just because people cant accept the fact they ****ed up somewhere and are using terrorism as a scapegoat.

[Scott]

Aye, that's awful. :rolleyes: :wtf: :(

[QuizMaster]

Oh, thanks for the info everybody. I started watching it after it started and they didn't say what was going on! Poor NASA, that can't be good.

[Drowsy Baku-ou]

It's getting tiring to hear about on the news..

I don't mean to be heartless, or seem that way, but it's not a God-awful incident, as these kind of things just.. happen. Technology is still unstable, yet we want to colonize space.. >_>

.. And what about those mass-deaths you never hear about on the news? War tragedies? Have they just gotten old to the point that they don't matter to us much anymore? Or are they just "expected" too?

[saphireruby]

:( Is a tradegy..My heart goes out to the families of those people....Not being deemed a terrorist act..It was too high up for missiles.....A TRAGIC accident..Can't blame any group of people for that one!!!!!

[Wing]

Ok, there was nothign foriegn that hit the shuttle at mach 17 I think. There is nothing that dam fast. But when the shuttle launced a few weeks ago, a piece hit the left wing while launching.

[Blondi]

Well, both NASA and an independent group are going over everything....At the time it hapenned they froze the comps at NASA and turned them all over for inspection and dissection....So perhaps we will find out after all......Unfortunately too late for the Crew of Columbia.............................:(

[Krome]

Terible news, this is the first I'm hearing of it.:(

[amalhyatt]

they figured out it wasnt terrorist, probably after massiv investigation........i feel sorry for those ppl, and there familyis, im never going to be
astraunaut <~~~SP~~~

[Parasite]

Its sad that it happened...whats worse that it was 16 mins from landing.

im never going to be astraunaut

IMO, i think its a stupid comment to make. If it was like that, dont fly coz planes crash, dont go on a train, it will derail, dont go in a bus or anyother road vehicles coz accidents happen all day. Sometimes things happen, and fools use that as an excuse. I dont know if u wanted to be an astronaut before the incident, but if yes, and now u dont want to become one, good for the others coz with ur attitude, your crew would fear death more than concentrate on the mission.

:fool: :wtf:

[Scott]

Originally posted by Krome
Terible news, this is the first I'm hearing of it.:(

Do Canada not have the News? :wtf:
It's everywhere. :wtf:

[Revolver-Ocelot]

Err...OK that is terrible news. :(
Guess I had my head under a rock yesterday...:wtf:

[EatDust]

My aunt was at kennedy space center in florida :D waiting for the shuttle to return, but it didn't,
Nasa released this statment: " during take off, we saw when the thrust booster thing( forgot name of it) came off as usual, but it took a little piece of the left wing off, we had no idea the effect it would bring, so we paid no attechen to it, at 8:45 the columbia, was over Las Angles, comming into the earth's atmosphere, and at 9:17 was scheduled to land, but at 9:27 it was over Fort Worth/ Dallas Texas, where a hugh sonic boom was heard. when the space shuttle columbia came into the earth's atmosphere, at around 9, nasa lost comunication with the ship, but to us them, that was normal, 10 mins later at 9:10, they lost tracking of the ship, and went into emergency. At 9:27, the boom was heard and flames and pieces were falling on to the ground to more than 200 miles away, in the gulf of mexico, and in west Luisianna.

All of this happened just 4 days after the aniversary, of the lady my school is named after, Christa McAulliffe, and her un successful trip to space.

no one can blame nasa for what happened compared to the challenger, seeing as, the challenger blew up on takeoff and the columbia blew up on landing. President bush has stated all space travelingand anything to deal with it shall not continue untill precise reason is found."

i changed some words around, because i didn't know how to spell them, and i typed this whole thing in 12 mins.


i pray for the families and the souls that were lost in this horrific accident.

may we have a moment of silence for them and their families?

:cry: :cry:

[Glure]

It is sad. I feel sad for the people who have rumaged for shuttle parts that have randomly scattered and are already selling them on e-bay. Horrible events.:(

[Blondi]

Yes, but I heard they shut that down on Ebay....:rolleyes:

[ducon]

and they should.... tis a torrible thing to do.. :wtf:

[MA-121]

I don't mean for this to sound like a bad thing but I would not mind having a part of that shuttle, for rememberance purposes ONLY of course. If some sicko wants to buy a part just to say "Hey look guys! I got a part of the Columbian shuttle!" all happy-like that's his/her damn problem. But yeah that does not surprise me they stopped that on ebay, too many people getting pissed I'm assuming. I swear if anyone says it was a terrorist act I would freekin' kick their ass, that's so stupid some people thought that. How is that even possible? It didn't even LOOK like anything hit it, and they got tight security around those launching pads so no one would have been able to put a bomb-like device in the shuttle before they took off. It disintegrated, end of story. R.I.P. Columbian shuttle crew.:(

[QuizMaster]

Originally posted by Scott


Do Canada not have the News? :wtf:
It's everywhere. :wtf:

This thread was the second I've heard of it. Maybe he just doesn't watch the news. Is that really a crime?

[dizturbed]

i hate that damn show lol,the shuttle was doing mach 25,thats 25 times the speed of sound.

[Loop]

As much as it's a tragedy, I can't help but think how this affects the Space program. We need to get off this rock.

[widow_maker]

I wasnt really expecting it

[Wolfy]

k i woz in france this weekend n all that woz showin in english in thehotel room woz bbc world n all that woz showin woz this story. tis very bad news i agree, but like, does no1 feel just a lil bit confused?
coz they showed this amateur vid of it fallin n breakin up, but no1 knowz who the camera man woz, and they said that the army came down 2 the control room 2 lock everyfin down n that everyfin lost control rite after they re-establish communication - bare other stuf aswell. it could b just me, but it just seemz so... dodgy.
but i gotta say tho, imaginin that u'r 1 of em n everyfinz goin wrong n burnin up around ya, damn scary.

[Monstergamer]

the heard the news when i was watchin tv in wal-mart.
i could not belive it :(

[EatDust]

lol wal-mart

[Scott]

What? :wtf: :fool:

[MA-121]

Ok dude this thread is not called "laugh at wal-mart," this is serious **** we are talking about here so if you got nothing to contribute, stay out.:rolleyes:

[EatDust]

hey, i was at kennedy space center, waiting for it, i know how important this is!

ok, i'm sorry for my rude comment

[Monstergamer]

EatDust
i accept your apologie

did any body watch the contribute to the sts-107 space team today. (2-4-2003)

it was sad :(

[Blondi]

Yes, I watched the whole thing....Although sad it was quite fitting IMO....And I did not even cry.............Tastefully done....

[Glure]

I watched as well.. online. afterwards of corse... It was good. respectfull.

(what does IMO stand for???:head: )

[MA-121]

In My Opinion.:wtf:
What I hate most though is that they're going to go on and on about this just like they did with WTC.:rolleyes:

[Krome]

Originally posted by Scott


Do Canada not have the News? :wtf:
It's everywhere. :wtf:

Yes Canada has news, but I wasn't watching it, I was running a DVD marothon, then I came online and heard the sad news here.:(

So thanks to Blondi for inlightening me.

[Scott]

Originally posted by MA-121
In My Opinion.:wtf:
What I hate most though is that they're going to go on and on about this just like they did with WTC.:rolleyes:

Same here, I'm sure the families of the people who lost their lives in that tragedy would rather not have this relived every time they read a paper or turn on the telly. :wtf:

[Loop]

Did I already say I hope this won't affect our Space exploration?
Of course, it's a tragedy. But accidents happen.
Not that I'm trivialising it...

[Monstergamer]

Originally posted by Lupus
Did I already say I hope this won't affect our Space exploration?
Of course, it's a tragedy. But accidents happen.
Not that I'm trivialising it... i hope they keep the Space exploration just learn from there mistakes :(