
Possibly though by the time catastrophe struck Columbia it had already bled off 5,000 mph from its entry speed (17,500 down to 12,500 before breakup)
No thoughts

Possibly though by the time catastrophe struck Columbia it had already bled off 5,000 mph from its entry speed (17,500 down to 12,500 before breakup)

Wow I can’t imagine bodies lasting through entry. Crazy.

This is nightmare fuel.
It shows that they did not get crushed when Columbia broke up. They likely were ejected from the charred crew cabin and tumbled as a fireball themselves until only metal pieces were left to float down.


Just saying… you don’t need to activate windows. Been using an unactivated copy for years. You lose virtually nothing.
Don’t forget basic human rights and democracy are now on the ballot.
So they are EXACTLY the same?
So vote for republicans if that’s the better of the two options? The cannot be EXACTLY the same. One is killing people in the streets right now.
Yes, dismantle the system…but dismantle it with dems in charge.
You are saying they are the same “same precinct”/“same pay checks”
They are not the same.
We know what we got


Did he just manage to give an air of legitimacy to cnn/msnow somehow?
After further reading( including from an old quora entry where a person who searched and found debris commented) they did find some larger remains. Apparently the crew cabin imploded and retained some remains as it spun and fell, ejecting more debris and remains as it plummeted.