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| I spy with my little eye some very slit news. Exiting
and even to some point it is erotic. If indeed this was only some simple
sabotage (because all those White House debiles are lying as hell about
some roots to 11 Sept&some stuff more), yes if this were sabotage that
would just never ever surface. That sure is some strange part of America,
although there is more or less 'free press' often real info that is
considered being to 'destabilizing' just never surfaces. But I must not blame this as typical American, that is nonsense. A lot of societies have this, may be it is called 'Not the dirty laundry showing to every one to see'. Now we will skip this bold font and go to some slim font. Ah, lovely! This font is much more slim and that is good. Not so phat&fat, now we turn it even into blue words and blue quotes and we quote the entire info around the space shuttle slid update:
Investigators say slit wing may have doomed shuttleHOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- A long, narrow slit on Columbia's left wing may have let in scorching heat and doomed the space shuttle during its plunge through the atmosphere, accident investigators said Tuesday. Such a gap could have been caused by a missing or broken seal on the leading edge of the wing, and is the latest -- and now strongest -- suspect in the 21/2-month-old inquiry. The seal is close to where the investigators believe a chunk of foam insulation hit during liftoff, and the impact could have broken or weakened the seal and all or part of it floated away from Columbia during its second day in orbit. "It's possible we may not be dealing with a round hole but instead something that created a long, narrow slit," said Scott Hubbard, a high-ranking NASA official on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. The board previously suspected that a mysterious object seen floating away from the shuttle was another part of the wing. But additional testing and the growing debris collection have ruled out a so-called carrier panel, and the only remaining possibilities are a seal or a fragment of a reinforced carbon-fiber panel, said Navy Rear Adm. Stephen Turcotte, a board member. The U-shaped carbon-fiber seals are located between each carbon panel and wrapped around the leading edge of each shuttle wing. These custom-fitted seals, like the carbon panels, are bolted onto the wing and subject to wear and tear. If even just one bolt was damaged by the foam that broke off Columbia's fuel tank barely a minute after liftoff, the seal or a chunk of it could have come loose the following day, the board said. The bolt or the seal itself could have been weakened because of age, said Harold Gehman Jr., a retired Navy admiral heading the investigation board. He held up a small seal sample, showing how a 1-inch-wide ( 2.5-centimeter-wide) slit could have formed. The board doesn't yet know the size of the breach. The mystery object was not noticed during the shuttle flight. The Air Force Space Command discovered it in its radar-tracking files only after the spaceship disintegrated over Texas on February 1, killing all seven astronauts. The object re-entered the atmosphere and burned up a few days later. During their weekly news conference, the investigators announced their revised calculations for where the foam struck 81 seconds into Columbia's flight -- a little farther outboard on the leading edge of the left wing. This new "strike zone" is based on camera views of the tumbling debris that are constantly being refined, Hubbard said. Other evidence seems to bear out the new targeted location. Tape from a salvaged data recorder shows a temperature spike in this location eight minutes after Columbia entered the atmosphere. Gehman said he will release the first set of interim recommendations for NASA this week. The board will urge NASA to adopt better methods for testing wing panels, seals and other shuttle parts for age-related damage and routinely photograph orbiting ships for possible damage. The space agency already has requested such observations from the military. The massive search for shuttle wreckage in East Texas, meanwhile, should be completed by the end of April, Gehman said. So far, about 36 percent of Columbia has been found.
Yes, this all was spied by my little eyes.
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