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There is some information regarding Columbia's scientific payload, hazardous debris warning, contact information to report debris theft and location etc... listed at the NASA.gov Columbia site.

Web URL: http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/index.html

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HAve you heard that people are posting things on Ebay!?

my opion, should lock-em up take there comp away and FINE the hell out of them!
then BEAT some sence into them

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Two people are arrested already.

[ February 06, 2003, 17:01: Message edited by: oleg ]

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Wow...just checked the debris field map. Debris has been found North, East and West of us...guess I'd better check the yard and lot next to us.

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about the russian space program...
back in the bad old days a lot of cosmonauts died, and no one ever heard about it, because of the censorship. Russian rockets, though good today, were not so good in the early years, and many unsung cosmonauts died without many people knowing.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is quite similar to the TWA Flight 100 explanation. People wanted a quick answer that didn't scare them.. So, the government blamed the fuel tank. Evidence that was suppressed clearly indicates that the plane was shot down by a missle. After the attacks on September 11, this is even more likely.

I expect that we will get an explanation, but it might not be true or completely accurate. Ignorance can be bliss, if you're not ready for the truth...Greybeard

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Uh, ok Greybeard. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Actually your example is backwards. TWA 800 was not shot down. The quick answer everyone wanted was that it was shot down. Only after thousands of hours of in depth research and analysis did the true cause, the fuel tank electrical problem, become known.

In fact the irrational hysteria around the "missle theory" has taken attention away from what really should concern people about the TWA 800 crash. The fact that faulty wiring that should have been taken out years before on all those commercial airliners wasn't. That's the real scary thing about it. But noone talks about it cause they would rather believe someone shot it down then believe the airliners they are flying in every day could blow up too because of the same faulty design.

Geoschmo

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about the russian space program...
back in the bad old days a lot of cosmonauts died, and no one ever heard about it, because of the censorship. Russian rockets, though good today, were not so good in the early years, and many unsung cosmonauts died without many people knowing.

ummm you sure it was not just because their russian ??

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There are claims about many unreported cosmonauts deaths. But they all has been dismissed by US space experts. There was one unreported in time death of a cosmonavt who was supposed to fly before Gagarin, but that's it. BTW, are you sure we landed on Moon ?