[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Andrew Weiss]

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 03:45  PM, Joacim Melin wrote:

> Though I no nothing about space shuttles, I wonder if the airforce 
> would use an aircraft in active duty built 1981 ?  As far as I know, 
> the Columbia was built around that time, but I might be wrong in both 
> cases.
>
> And as far as the theories that this is a terrorist act - try taking 
> an aircraft down that's flying at a high altitude like the Columbia 
> was at a speed of 20000km/h.  I don't buy it - I think this is an 
> accident, pure and simple. A really unfortunate one at that.
>
The only sabotage I believe in is possible tampering with the heat 
tiles.

Andrew