Replies to post #72740 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Dances-W-waves]

60 - 90 seconds...that's a long time when things are burnin up.

:o/

[sylvester80]

Too bad nobody seems to want to explain the computer's most extreme maneuvers to date from drag on the left side. What caused that drag on the left side (the most extreme drag ever in a space shuttle mission)?

[mainehiker]

zeev.. blown tire...wow......the scenario of a small explosive device or slow thermal device in tire, causing a chain reaction sadly makes perfect sense..if it was sabotage.wish i had seen the tire.. and i pray they examine it ..livermore labs would be good, well maybe not if it is a coverup..and have ALL NASA employees who did ANYTHING on columbia been looked at/screened?
all these pieces dont add up......

[tantal]

Zeev, Iknow what you are thinking, but any circumstances which cause the tire to heat up and overpressure will cause it to burst at its weakest point, not at a seem or somewhere logical. If there was a tile failure nearby (?) causing that part of the ship to heat up, the tire could burst just from the pressure. IMO, the tire will burst before melting.