Comments by "wheelmanstan" (@wheelmanstan) on "Curious Droid" channel.

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  2. soooo crazy that they didn't even look at the wing..Ham seems ultimately responsible for that, didn't have the balls or decency to ask even for assistance with a military satellite for an image, told the crew a BS story, obviously foam the size of a suit case traveling 700mph would blast through anything light enough to fly, the most brilliant minds work at NASA.. as soon as they saw that footage on day one they should have had the crew doing a damage assessment, not experts on the ground SPECULATING, how the hell did NASA not already have a test done to see how dangerous that foam was at high speeds? heck they already knew how strong the impacts were on the other parts of the shuttle it's just so weird, if the attitude is "well foam breaks off, can break a wing and leave you stranded in space", then you shouldn't launch until you have a way to repair it in space or send up help with with another shuttle, common sense, imagine telling the crew "just so you know, a broken piece of foam is certain death for you if it lands on the wing, do you still want to risk it?" you think they'd still hop in that rocket without question? you think they wouldn't demand a backup plan with tools and replacement parts or a backup shuttle? of course they'd be reluctant, you got all these moving parts and responsibilities and training for everything under the sun..and yet a piece of foam is beyond your control and can end you just a minute into the flight.. no, you gotta do better than that, this is NASA, the best of the best the rescue mission seems far-fetched..imagine asking a crew who also had families to hop in another shuttle with the same FOAM in an expedited fashion into orbit, it's already a 1 in 100 chance of death (it's funny how we all know they'd hop in that shuttle without question to save their buddies with the might of the highly respected NASA behind them, but it IS sensible for them to be reluctant), but patching it seemed possible, I'm sure they had SOMETHING they could use, you can't tell me they went up there with NOTHING for emergency repairs, heck it sounds like that shuttle was stripped down, but look at how long it lasted with that hole, and they could have changed flight pattern and orientation to help keep the help put the heat less in that area, at least let them know and try and say their goodbyes, these are adults and they were treated like children, imagine if they'd made it with a hole in their wing..possible survived a crash landing, imagine how pissed they'd be about that "nothing to worry about" email and that poor news reporter who saw the foam strike and didn't make a big deal about it and bring it up to the crew, it is possible that if he had then it could have led to the crew or nasa getting a better look at it and patching that hole..possibly surviving that way or via the far-fetched rescue mission (with NASA you'd like to believe anything is possible), if he had then he'd be that guy "the guy who was put here to save STS-107", there's always someone who could have been the guy that saved people, it's not his fault though, but sometimes you're at the right place at the right time to be the hero..
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