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 Sunday, February 23, 2003
A Picture of the Future? Hope not. We have dealt with terrorists before in the US. They killed an American President. They started WWI. They blew up Wall Street, killing over 30 people. They presented us with the first "Trial of the Century." We rounded up and deported lots of immigrants. We trampled civil rights but we also came out of it a stronger and, I think, better country. But we are still a ways away from where we would like to be. You can read about these things from two different perspectives:Lessons from the last war on terror and Terror on Wall Street -- A Look at a 1920 Bombing. Other articles of Interest:The Red Scare in the 1920?s
The Refractory Ones 11:01:36 PM 
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MSNBC's new "Must See, Reality TV".....Hate!. "There's no such thing as racial profiling! It's the biggest lie of our time." ("Savage Nation" broadcast, 10/4/02) "We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy." (San Francisco Chronicle, 2/6/03). "We need another brave Senator, like McCarthy, whom... [TV Barn]
Another reason NOT to watch MSNBC. It is the last on my list. CNN has a niche and Fox has a niche. MSNBC simply has a hole to fill. 10:24:21 PM
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It turns out that the left wing of Columbia had been a sore spot for some time, because the ship itself made the transition from laminar to turbulent airflow much earlier than all other shuttles (i.e. Mach 19 vs. Mach 9). This would mean that it would hit much higher levels of friction while traveling at a higher speed than any of the other shuttles. SO it was particularly vulnerable to any damage of the tiles, especially on the left wing. As with most accidents, this will probably be a combination of things but the margin for error on the Columbia was much less than the other shuttles. 9:57:09 PM
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Okay, upstreaming seems to be off. Let's see if this makes it. 8:08:08 PM
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Wow. Safari really does display faster. This is nice. 7:26:45 PM
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Well, things look great so far. I am now using Safari and it looks good. Now to see if Safari, with Airport, with OS X 10.2.3 on a Pismo actualy works. 7:25:42 PM
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It seems that many engineers at other locations were also worried about the foam impact, yet the Boeing engineers ignored their own computer simulations. Why have a simulation if you are going to ignore them? 5:08:43 PM
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O'Keefe is still trying to claim that the foam was something like a piece of styrofoam, implying that it's effects would be minimal, and that it is not a likely theory with anyone he knows. In this article, an engineer's email states that the pieces, if ice, could have hit with the force of a 500 pound at over 300 miles per hour. Some piece of styrofoam!! And this article from the Seattle Times tells a very interesting story. It seems that Boeing, in the interest of saving money, transfered its shuttle teams from California to Texas. They wanted to move 500 but only 100 moved. As the article says: Boeing transferred shuttle jobs to Houston in a consolidation that cost the company scores of its most experienced shuttle engineers in the past two years [~] including some who invented the methodology for debris damage and thermal analysis. This was the first flight for the new engineers who had been hired, who had never really done this before. Read the article. Even if the foam had nothing to do with the disaster, it appears management may yet again have forgotten that physics can not be fooled in its bid for profits. 4:38:27 PM
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Well, it seems to. Now I'll look at the News. 3:45:36 PM
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Well, I am trying to use radio on my updated Pismo using 10.2.3. Let's see if it works by upstreaming this to all my categories. 3:33:14 PM
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