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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: Challenger
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 22:05:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 11:47:50 -0700, john larkin wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 17:29:13 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:08:26 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 08:21:52 +0100, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
>>> 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.
> 
> The crew may have been alive when the cabin hit the water. The recovery
> of the remains and the forensics was grim. I'm shocked that NASA ever
> flew another shuttle.
> 
> The tiles and the SRBs and the external tanks and the engines were all
> known hazards. Columbia was the nail in the coffin.
> 
> Two shuttles out of five were lost. NASA estimated that the loss rate
> would be 1 in 100,000 flights.

So about as reliable a statistic as their figures for historical CO2 in 
the atmosphere, then.