Columbia Conspiracy

[scooter]

These sites sicken me.
www.columbiassacrifice.com

This guy is a mechanical engineer, apparently, and has spent a lot of time investigating "discrepancies" in the CAIB report. I'm not a scientist or engineer, but this site boils down, after all the hard work, to a couple of bizzare conclusions. 1) HAARP did it, and 2) the orbiter broke up at 30-some thousand feet doing Mach 18!!! One tough bird, that orbiter, if only it had been so durable...

Lots of fancy graphs and numbers, but wierd conclusions and findings...

Dave

[ktesibios]

This bit from the first page is priceless:

Because the very massive Space Shuttle engines impacted the ground at Mach 2 in the vicinity of Fort Polk Louisiana, a straight line can be drawn from that point back up to Entry Interface (EI). Following this line back down to the point where LOS occurred gives and altitude of 34,500 Ft.

Apparently, the trajectory of a re-entering shuttle, or the pieces of it following its break-up, through an atmosphere of increasing density in the presence of a downward gravitational acceleration should be a straight line.

Somehow, the idea of a qualified engineer who is less familiar with the behavior of ballistic projectiles than an artillerist, target shooter, outfielder or high school physics student seems just a leetle bit dubious.

It's always gratifying when a woo-woo gets right to the conclusive demonstration that he doesn't know what he's talking about without a lot of unnecessary preamble. It saves the reader's time, and I do admire efficiency.

[JayUtah]

It's clear this guy has never investigated anything more disastrous than a lost television remote control.

[lenbrazil]

I'm not even sure he really is an engineer. Unless I missed it, he doesn't even tell us his name just his initials, JH [or something like that].

Len.