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Doesn't offend me.. I just think you could have proved your point without it. Not to mention... you know eventually someone would have commented.. "racism on the board too.."

Wrong.. kiddo. My comment was this.. Excuse you...? Many people live quite well on $50K a year. I didn't say s*** to you like I could have. Go back and read before you comment any further and make more of an asshole of yourself.

Hu...? Can you rewind a bit here...? What are we disagreeing about..?

420.. what's the point? Please delete the above post.

Did I say I didn't believe you...? I asked you that...? Where did I do that? Missed your explination to that question as well.. care to share it again? 420... don't put words in my mouth. Nothing good will come of it.

LOL.. now that you clarified, it makes sense.

OK.. I gotta get out of this. The s*** smell is coming full blast out of my CPU..

What disrespect..? Did I disrespect you..?

Well.. if you're basing it off that $12K you previously made, you might be surprised just how nice you can live off it..

You made $12K a year... ? How exactly did that turn into $50K... did you plant it?

No 420.. back up and read your posts. You called it s*** money and then stood by it. To late for "no" now. And take up his ## with him.. not me. A hint.. save some of that savings you got.. It would be just terrible if you couldn't find anything more than a "s*** paying" job when you get out of school... Are you the same poster who was complaining about getting stiffed out of $100...?

Your statement stands that it's "s*** pay"...? :headshake

Fan I absolutely, positively, agree with everything you said. I am in no way trying to make excuses. There is no excuse for loss of life in such a manner IMO. One thing though... it was no where near 40F below in Florida that day.. I don't think it's ever been that cold south of St. Louis..

Excuse you...? Many people live quite well on $50K a year.

Yep. Add to that the fact that the previous set had been used 7, yes.. seven times to that mission being that sets 4th trip. They were doing what they had proven to be within safe limits. Right, no.. hindsight is 20/20.

They were applied pretty much with a substance like chewed bubble gum. Strange.. billions of $$'s and human lives and they reply on something so unreliable. :headshake

Actually.. it had taken off in colder weather. It wasn't so much the temp as the ice that had formed on the tanks from being de-iced, then re-forzen.. then de-iced, then re-frozen. The best explination I got was this.. ya know how a washer inside a hose looks warn after a few years and water starts to seep out of the handle..? That's what happened in the 33 hours that they kept thawing the thing out after it had frozen again. The temp change ate away at it. If they had just left the damn thing alone and only de-iced it once or twice versus 12 or 13 times the mission might have been ok. They were scheduled to be replaced when it returned..

My grampa said hundreds of those tiles would fall off just from tesing the boosters (meaning they fire them up on the pad and let them fun for a bit).

Trial begins over flight attendant's allegedly racist rhyme By The Associated Press (1/21/04 - KANSAS CITY, KS) — A federal trial in Kansas City focuses on allegations that a comment by a Southwest Airlines employee was racist. A 2001 flight from Las Vegas to Kansas City was waiting to depart when flight attendant Jennifer Cundiff tried to get passengers to be seated. Over the intercom, she announced, quote: "Eenie, meenie, minie moe; pick a seat, we gotta go." Two black sisters on the flight say the rhyme was racist. Louise Sawyer and Grace Fuller say they suffered physical and emotional distress. Their lawyer says it was discrimination, even though a racist word sometime associated with the rhyme wasn't used. Cundiff says she had no idea why the rhyme would have been considered racist. She says it was directed at all those who weren't seated, not just Sawyer and Fuller. And she says she'd used it before on other flights, in an attempt at humor. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/012104_APnat_rhyme.html

Every single day.. 3:30 pm.

Fan.. the O rings have been the center of controversy since the very first launch. Upon the return, the seals had been burned almost completely and there was literally less than 1/4 of an inch stopping the thing from blowing up back then. My grandfather worked for Martin Marrieta who tested the rings and gave a findings report before congress forever ago.

They look like they're doing the Macarena when you put a bunch

Very beautiful. My dad used to drive us to the Cape for night liftoffs when we were younger. It was incredible. The best one I ever saw was when I was on vacation there a few years ago and my Uncle (who is career AF living in Melbourne) got us on the base. It was so loud. But so damn beautiful..

I was living in Orlando at the time of the Challenger explosion.. Every shuttle takeoff at school we would all get to go out on the football field and watch. They stopped that and still don't do it. That was a messed up day.