OT....shuttle....Zeev...check out this video. About 2/3rds down on the left hand side of the page is a msn "free video". Near the end of the video, they show a home videotape of someone watching the shuttle in Phoenix. It appears to be breaking up there. (voices of the folks there included)
Zeev, earlier they said they had not been able to get much from the missing data and the little they had gotten made no sense...They haven't given up on that though....
Zeev. My neighbor who is a retired NASA engineer has his own theory.
a) The shuttle started its initial break up over CA - not Texas or even AZ.
b) The break up was caused by a confluence of events. 1. Missing tiles that left the shuttle vulnerable to heat spikes and would cause the aircraft to not operate/fly optimally. 2. The shuttle's problems were exacerbated when it hit a high pocket, or "bubble" as he calls it of atmospheric air over the Sierra mountains (possibly even over the Pacific ocean just off shore). Such atmospheric bubbles can extend to extreme altitudes in these regions. 3. He came to these conclusions various ways. 1) The missing heat tiles alone he feels wouldn't have brought the craft down. 2) A load explosion was heard in our area as the shuttle went overhead. It was NOT a sonic boom and was heard across a wide area around where I live (high in the Sierra mountains near the NV border).
My neighbor had other 'proof' to back his theory but it was over my head. He used to work with two of NASA's top atmospheric scientists so he knows a thing or two about this. Unfortunately they (and he) are retired now so they are trying to figure out how to get the info to NASA (and have someone listen!). By the way. He came to these conclusions 2 days ago. Before any of these videos or other evidence came forward to support his theory.
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