OT: NASA Shuttle Lost II
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Off Topic...NASA Space Shuttle Colombia Lost at Re-entry....
After Challenger lost in 1986, now this pic reminds me of Mia space station burnup ... only difference is human live is involved
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Chey, what so big news? Planes crash now and then taking more lives, the only difference here is that this is a multi-million spacecraft that apparently failed.
Same thing, just that the difference is in the celebrity status... -
What celebrity status?Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Chey, what so big news? Planes crash now and then taking more lives, the only difference here is that this is a multi-million spacecraft that apparently failed.
Same thing, just that the difference is in the celebrity status...
They were not movie or pop stars?
Show some respect to this bunch of 5 Men and 2 Women, who were brave enough to accept the risks, and move into outer space to conduct scientific experiments for the benefit of human kind.
They were all ordinary men and women, but with extra-ordinary qualifications in scientific research, and could have simply stayed in the safety of their laboratories to conduct experiments.
This is no commercial joy ride on an ordinary commercial plane that suffered some maintenance mishap.
All the space flights are filled with danger, as they are propelled into space by highly explosive fuelled rocket engines, and return to earth in a dangerous heat searing re-entry with temperatures that reach over 3000 degrees Celcius.
Whether it is an ordinary jet crash that takes a few hundred lives or just this 7 lives, your non-chalant attitude is repulsive, to say the least !! -
hmm, sorry, i am abit out of date with the news. what happened to these ppl?
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Based on the continuous broadcast by CNN and BBC World News, it seems that when the Space Shuttle took off about 2 weeks ago, some debris from the fuel tank had fallen off and hit the "insulation tiles" below the Space Shuttle.Originally posted by dumbdumb!:hmm, sorry, i am abit out of date with the news. what happened to these ppl?
The "insulation tiles" below the Space Shuttle were lost during the take off, and these "insulation tiles" were critically needed to form a heat shield below the Spare Shuttle during its re-entry into earth.
With a few pieces of "insulation tiles" lost at the critical areas on the wings of the Space Shuttle, the heat built-up at temperatures of over 3000 degrees C, affected the Space Shuttle that was built in aluminium, which then disintegrated at a height of over 40 miles above Texas, USA.
You can get more info from the following web sites:
http://www.cnn.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://www.flatoday.com/news/space/index.htm -
there are countless number of death everyday... yet as the chinese said... death can be as light as a feather, or as heavy as the mountain of tai...Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Chey, what so big news? Planes crash now and then taking more lives, the only difference here is that this is a multi-million spacecraft that apparently failed.
Same thing, just that the difference is in the celebrity status...
and i believe... to die in the course of duty comes deserve respect... the NASA crew's death is similar to the 4 girls we lost when our PV was crippled at the PB...
there are those who would die for no one... except themselves... (most fall under this catergory)
there are those who would die for others... that they knew in life... (family, friends and love ones)
There are those who would die for those they never knew... (soldiers, police, doctors, fireman, nurses and many others)
And there are those that die for the humankind... (scientist, explorers and other trail-blazers...)
finally... there are those who die for humankind... but leaves not a name to themselves for us to remember...
May we all give a silent prayer to all those who has pass before us... may their souls rest in peace, may GOD bring them home.... to rest...
their journey is over... but their trails of fire will forever be remembered and guide the paths of others to follow.... -
This is the 4th or 5th thread on tis liao
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Space Technology Advancement: Space Shuttle Columbia's LOST.
The Lost of US's Space Shuttle Columbia is a consequence of a long-term space technology advancement.
-Current space technology is expensive.
-The need to research and invent new space technologies which is expensive left current space shuttle fleet to be financially impossible to replace.
-New space shuttles are expensive to construct.
-NASA is also currently on a project to invent a totally new space shuttle which does noes not requires additional rockets to propel it into space. It could simply lift off like a aeroplane and go into space.
-Current space shuttle = a person climbing up a ladder up to next storey with a lot effort at a time
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-Future space shuttle = person taking a ramp of a longer distance but with little effort at a time. -
Originally posted by Atobe:
Death is around us. People die doing new stuff. We have to be prepared for any deaths "death" itself created creatively.
What celebrity status?
They were not movie or pop stars?
Show some respect to this bunch of 5 Men and 2 Women, who were brave enough to accept the risks, and move into outer space to conduct scientific experiments for the benefit of human kind.
They were all ordinary men and women, but with extra-ordinary qualifications in scientific research, and could have simply stayed in the safety of their laboratories to conduct experiments.
This is no commercial joy ride on an ordinary commercial plane that suffered some maintenance mishap.
All the space flights are filled with danger, as they are propelled into space by highly explosive fuelled rocket engines, and return to earth in a dangerous heat searing re-entry with temperatures that reach over 3000 degrees Celcius.
[b]Whether it is an ordinary jet crash that takes a few hundred lives or just this 7 lives, your non-chalant attitude is repulsive, to say the least !!
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america has tons of cash, they will resume after the regime change of the Axis of Evil
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Bah what shuttle disaster? Who ever said this was safe stuff? Die die lor, as the french might say "it's too bad mona mi, should have been more careful."
Brave people? Does it make a difference when you're nothing more then a passanger in a gliding brick... maybe if they blew themselves up trying to divert an asteriod or something. Otherwise, their deaths are tragic, but not big news in all of humanity. The larger concern is probably in the technically of the accident, and it's implications for future space travel. Will more people die? yes, will we mourn any more special for them? Many more have made bigger sacrifices and have been unsung. Just go to any war memorial.
Bah, some civillians dying in pursit of ambition and doing their country proud. I tell you, the GI who leaves his homeland to put life and limb in danger fighting in some freezing foxhole and wistanding appaling conditions for freeing the world of Nazi tyranny only to recieve no more then a telegram to his family and a tiny white cross memorial in a vast sea of many more who fell along with him. Those astronauts had it easy. -
Originally posted by SingaporeTyrannosaur:Bah what shuttle disaster? Who ever said this was safe stuff? Die die lor, as the french might say "it's too bad mona mi, should have been more careful."
Brave people? Does it make a difference when you're nothing more then a passanger in a gliding brick... maybe if they blew themselves up trying to divert an asteriod or something. Otherwise, their deaths are tragic, but not big news in all of humanity. The larger concern is probably in the technically of the accident, and it's implications for future space travel. Will more people die? yes, will we mourn any more special for them? Many more have made bigger sacrifices and have been unsung. Just go to any war memorial.
Bah, some civillians dying in pursit of ambition and doing their country proud. I tell you, the GI who leaves his homeland to put life and limb in danger fighting in some freezing foxhole and wistanding appaling conditions for freeing the world of Nazi tyranny only to recieve no more then a telegram to his family and a tiny white cross memorial in a vast sea of many more who fell along with him is so much more worthy to be sung of. Those astronauts had it easy.