Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cursitor Doom Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Challenger Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:29:13 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <5a5a6jtfh1je18lr297jrh10oihptl2tgo@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:29:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d4ac345ff05c2404d7e3496200634bde"; logging-data="3825047"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+g4GpY3GBrAHoQ53quEWEiLfcr74Gyqxk=" User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IHG02EFgHbyd2wSL3dLkRVZGrRI= Bytes: 1858 On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:08:26 -0700, john larkin wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 08:21:52 +0100, Jeff Layman > wrote: > >>On 09/06/2024 03:42, john larkin wrote: >>> https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/ 198217661X >>> >>> This is a very well researched and written book, and a sad, ghastly >>> story. >>> >>> It reminds me that humans have no purpose in space but to die. >> >>That's a very jaundiced and negative view. Firstly, they weren't in >>space when they died; they were at 46000 feet, which was below the >>operational height of Concorde. > > Dead is dead. Optimistically, they died instantly but probably not. I would guess it must have been very much like being exposed to a nuclear blast. So basically frazzled to death over several seconds. Not nice.