-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:48 am, J. Greenlees wrote: > Leon Brooks wrote: > > Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry > > (200,000ft), lots of links at http://news.google.com/ > > > > Interesting that the news is out _before_ the shuttle was due to land. > > Astronauts almost certainly all dead. > > > > That'll knacker NASA for a while too, but maybe they'll try more > > imaginative launch vehicles now. > > maybe they'll get rid of legacy tech and go state of the art in design? > naw, NASA turned that down when starting the shuttle program, couldn't > wait for a design that would be able to use any international airport. > they won't change the attitude now, not after investing 30 years into > the things
More imaginative, and high tech would introduce more problems. The reason they go with legacy equipment is because it's time tested, and works under extreme conditions that have less failure rate. It's more likely that the parts of the shuttle that are more high tech could have caused this. Computer fail a lot more than wires, levers, and other mechanical controls. - -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPjwQKRFHZPcobeHxAQJ47wP/f/tWCDN67H/WFDEtl1pQlEPFFUxTHbp3 VbPKyphLYruH8n5DMdQ89yxK6j+d5z+67d621H/25ETamtfeNTC7CXqBBcBLmxmO RahHSWBvfHRDrJ8NCYAx+rL2cXzjfU/E5GtVw0U12P8ZHnzmxUxJrS27JfA8yhl7 lW/+8TRDJcw= =sH6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
