OT: Shuttle Breaks Up During Re-Entry

Instar · #1 February 7th, 2003, 03:27 AM

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.

Greybeard · #2 February 7th, 2003, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

The problem is the press and the public are impatient and want an answer now. Whether it is the wrong answer isn't as important as getting it instantly.

Geoschmo[/QB]

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

geoschmo · #3 February 7th, 2003, 08:57 PM

Uh, ok Greybeard.

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

tesco samoa · #4 February 7th, 2003, 09:27 PM

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 ??

oleg · #5 February 8th, 2003, 12:25 PM

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 ?