Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident 238
DreamerFi writes "A flight data recorder from the space shuttle Columbia, recovered last week in East Texas, contains readings that continue 14 seconds later than any previously studied data. Those readings are likely to play a crucial role in determining the cause of the shuttle's catastrophic breakup on Feb. 1."
Amazing (Score:5, Funny)
Good thing they didn't use DVD-Rs or <cough> Windows Media Player...
The truth is... (Score:3, Funny)
misleading title? (Score:5, Funny)
I somehow doubt that the data recorded caused the shuttle accident. Perhaps they mean to say "finding the CAUSE of the accident"?
Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident (Score:5, Funny)
Accident cause (Score:3, Funny)
Well, the solution is simple -- remove the data recorder from the remaining shuttles, and *presto* exploding shuttle problem solved.
GF.
Maybe not... (Score:3, Funny)
"You idiot! You pressed the wrong button!!!"
Re:Black box?! (Score:2, Funny)
a) It was a vast conspiracy by the evil alien empire with the earth combined with the Republican national committee to divert attention from a meeting of their evil cabal.
b) Some talking head on the news didn't do his research worth a damn.
Personally, I think it was a.
No kidding. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Amazing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Maybe not... (Score:1, Funny)
KABLAM!!!
No! Bud light........
Re:misleading title? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Amazing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Recorder not strengthened like black box (Score:3, Funny)
Nasa say they can't design a black-box that could survive a shuttle disaster.
The data-recorder, which was not designed to survive re-entry, survived.
Nasa should get the design of their next re-entry vehicle from the designer of the data-recorder!
Re:Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident (Score:1, Funny)
Not just the title, the story's stupid. (Score:1, Funny)
In other news, the Warren Commission announced today that the Zapruder film will be "key to analyzing the assasination of JFK."
I always wonder.. (Score:2, Funny)
Same with airplanes too.
Re:Amazing (Score:4, Funny)
What kind of tapes? (Score:2, Funny)
Amazing.
Re:Maybe not... (Score:3, Funny)
"You idiot! You pressed the wrong button!!!""
No no, it was probably this:
"Watch this, I can do a barrel roll..."
Re:The Shuttle is *extremely* difficult to land .. (Score:2, Funny)
I beg to differ. In this movie [imdb.com], Lea Thompson did it manually without any problem.
Mod +1 (Smashing Windows) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Maybe not... (Score:3, Funny)
A. "Hey everybody, watch this!"
Hey everybody? You have GOT to be kidding. Admit it, you've never known a real redneck have you? You've watched a couple of episodes of Hee Haw, maybe, but you've never really met or spoken to a real, live, in-the-flesh redneck. Take it from someone who grew up in Alabama, this should be:
"Hey ya'll, watch this!"
(I also would have accepted "Hold my beer and watch this!")
--Jim