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2005-08-01 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Thromotle Cleting5515 2005-08-01 09:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I keep getting this mental picture of a space suited astronaut with a wooden caulking mallet hammering this ceramic-fiber cloth back between the thermal tiles.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-01 10:24|| 2005-08-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone has to pay the devil.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-01 10:33|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-01 10:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Time to fire up the ol' CFC factory. Seems to me the old foam formulation worked better, and if NASA intends to continue using the shuttle then that's what they should stick with, EPA be damned.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-08-01 10:33|| 2005-08-01 10:33|| Front Page Top

#4 EPA offered NASA the exemption, but NASA passed. All the blame falls squarely on NASA. It simply is not a serious organization, it doesn't have a mission, it's stuck in the past. Who would want to work there now?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-01 10:44|| 2005-08-01 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I remember a provactive article decades ago. The idea was to kill NASA and then use its funding to offer dollar-for-dollar tax credits for anyone investing in Space. Finance Rhutan? That works. Invest in a satellite company? That's space. Build boosters? Sure.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-01 11:31|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-01 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Mrs Davis, I'm not so sure that NASA passed on the EPA exemption but what I remember is that the Clinton Administration mandated that NASA not use the freon. I'll try to find the documentation. I could be wrong but that's the way I remember it.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-08-01 12:19|| 2005-08-01 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 My immediate knee-jerk reaction was that we can live with this," he said. "On the other hand, this is bigger than we've seen before."

Off record the administrator went further:
"On the other Palp this is bigger than what we'veseen before because we have cameras there now, it could be forelonging, forelonging? It's the opposite of fore-shortening - you know 14 years old, bath-room mirror."

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-01 15:02|| 2005-08-01 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Aw Ship... I almost fell outta my chair after that one. Goodonya

Posted by eLarson 2005-08-01 16:06|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-08-01 16:06|| Front Page Top

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