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Washington Monthly, 1980, on Columbia's construction: "The inch-thick tiles, made of pyrolized carbon, are amazing in two respects. They can be several hundred degrees hot on one side while remaining cool to the touch on the other. They do not boil away like the ablative heat shieldings of capsules and modules; they can be used indefinitely. But they're also a bit of a letdown in another respect-they're so fragile you can hardly touch them without shattering them." "The tiles are the long pole holding up the tent," says Mike Malkin, NASA's shuttle project director. "The tiles are the most important system NASA has ever designed as "safe life." That means there is no back-up for them. "The worry runs deep enough that NASA investigated installing a crane assembly in Columbia so the crew could inspect and repair damaged tiles in space. (Verdict: Can't be done. You can hardly do it on the ground.)"
Pointers from Rogers Cadenhead and Dave Winer... |
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Dave Winer: "The Shuttle astronauts were so lucky! They had amazing lives. They went to space. They were scientists so they knew it was risky. And they were lucky because they died quickly without much time for pain and long goodbyes. Yes it's sad they died. Yes. But it's great that they lived." Read the whole piece... Comments 5:57:03 PM 
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Underway in Ireland: On the very day Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom was published, perfect reproductions of the text were spreading free across the Net. Within a day, 20,000 electronic copies were downloaded and unknown thousands of copies traded on file-sharing networks. For Doctorow, this was a smart move. Within hours, Cory had enjoyed more free online publicity than a million pop-up ads would have bought. And his book shot up on the Amazon list of most viewed titles. Attention 'old world' publishers: there is a new, cheap and powerful way to reach your market... give content away... intelligently... Comments 4:50:09 PM
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Lauren Weinstein: "NASA has established an anonymous FTP input point for persons who have found shuttle debris to upload photos or videos of the material along with identifying commentary for NASA analysis of its importance. "This may well be the first use of the Net for this kind of disaster evidence collection on such a scale." Instructions are at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/instructions.html
Lauren posted this on Dave Farber's IP List earlier today... |
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NYT on the role of the Internet in Columbia coverage: "Not only does it give people access to the news and to one another but it also gives them vast amounts of information and the ability to synthesize and disseminate it." They point to the role of Weblogs and other individual efforts to quickly provide eyewitness accounts, images and expert opinion... Comments 4:01:07 PM
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Updated 4/16/04; 12:19:48 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:19:48 PM
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