Posted on 07/09/2011 9:06:13 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Where did you get the idea that the author confused the Shuttle with Apollo 16? I don’t see any hint of that.
Or are you saying they should have treated him to an Apollo launch rather than a Shuttle launch? That may be been a tad difficult.
Oh, in the article headline. Yes, whoever wrote the headline is either a moron or didn’t read the actual article. I suspect the latter — just threw the headline on there after a very fast scan of the article. Headline / Title writers are usually not the authors.
I vote to send Sheila Jackson-Lee.
I’d delete my post if I could! Unfortunately, once posted to FR, all messages belong to posterity...
"Durham teen discovers piece of shuttle history."
Then the story tells of how he discovered a fragment from Apollo 16, not from any space shuttle.
Seems fairly obvious to me. The reporter is a moron.
But talk about sparkly vampires, caring werewolves, and Harry Potter...whoo boy! They’ll yak your ear off for an hour!
Agreed. It was from a part of the rocket that was expected to fall into the ocean and be non-recoverable. If they want it back so bad, I’d say, “Great, let’s start the bidding!”
Very cool and not cool that NASA has been outsourced by Obama. About 10,000 jobs in Florida gone. It was sad to see the last Shuttle launch the other day.
Or "celebrities." They can quote from every "reality" show on TV and tell you what Lady Gaga thinks of George Bush.
IMHO, one of the great leaps downward in American culture and public intelligence began on September 14, 1981. That was the day "Entertainment Tonight" premiered. Look at all the TV tabloid garbage that followed.
I have to disagree, tanks and aircraft are expected to land, drive back into base, etc. This part was expected to drop into the ocean and be non-recoverable. When I was in the US Navy, it was common to throw aluminum and steel parts that were no longer serviceable or repairable over the side of the ship (such as bolts that had stripped threads, or a pump shaft that was sheared in half). If a Navy sailor threw something like that over the side and somebody found it later, it wouldn’t be reasonable for the Navy go tell them, “Hey, that’s US Government property and we gotta have that back!” This Apollo 16 part has the same status as a spent shell casing. NASA disposed of it in the sea, nobody ever had a reasonable expectation to see it ever again, and they lost rights to it as soon as it hit the water.
The part from Apollo 16 also wouldn’t be used in any kind of crash/mishap investigation, to NASA couldn’t take that tack, either.
The title says “Durham teen discovers piece of shuttle history”. No, the teen discovered a piece of Apollo rocket history, not space shuttle history.
BTW, remember when they did find a chunk of the Challenger that washed up on the beach several years later?
I remember that. They were pieces the size of car doors.
Oops, I see that this already got discussed and cleared up.
“I vote to send Sheila Jackson-Lee”
So, we’ll send the cat later then?
The first 6 paragraphs are about the article writer. He uses “I” 8 times in the first 4 sentences.
This could be the brain behind the TOTUS!
Is it just me or does it sound odd that these “pieces of METAL” just sort of float around the ocean until they beach themselves?
Any beachcombers out there? Do you often find large chunks of METAL?
In November of 1986, I found this very thin piece of metal (three, four millimeters, maybe) about the size of a piece of notebook paper sticking up out of the sand while at the beach in Cocoa Beach, FL.
The metal had several burn holes in it about the size of a lit cigarette end and had several “tears” in the metal, giving it this twisted look.
The most surprising thing about it given it’s size and thickness? Can’t be bent. Looks like it could be easily twisted in one’s hands but, nope, won’t give an inch.
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