[dtel]

If foam had corrupted the skin of the craft early in flight, sensors would have failed well before re-entry.
The tin-foilers, cannot accept this.
Something happened on re-entry that was catastrophic, what that was, is yet undetermined.
Let us wait for a few more facts.

[neuron2]

If foam had corrupted the skin of the craft early in flight, sensors would have failed well before re-entry.

Please elaborate upon and cite your authority for this assertion. Thank you.

[X-FID]

If foam had corrupted the skin of the craft early in flight, sensors would have failed well before re-entry. The tin-foilers, cannot accept this.

What kind of sensors? I doubt the temperature sensors would fail on take-off because it ain't going fast enough to generate the heat (unless there's a fire).

Thermocouple circuits for obvious reasons are designed for an off-scale reading when they are destroyed or disconnected, that didn't happen during the entire mission until the re-entry, that we know of.

If you mean another another type of sensor that can detect tile damage, I would be interested to know about that, otherwise the debris smashing into the port wing is what I would be looking at closely as well as every other possibility.

So call me a tin-foiler if you like.

[_Jim]

If foam had corrupted the skin of the craft early in flight, sensors would have failed well before re-entry.

The flight *into* space isn't *quite* the ride that they take back *into* the atmosphere (commonly called re-entry) -

- you do know this don't you?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Tin-foilers, that's rich. The 2 lb. piece of insulation that was filmed striking the left wing during launch couldn't possibly be a cause? Meanwhile, people are floating theories about cosmic lightning and meteor collisions, and those are viable theories? You're getting mixed up on who the tin-foilers are.

If foam had corrupted the skin of the craft early in flight, sensors would have failed well before re-entry.

You should get a handle on your gross assumptions before you talk about other people being "tin-foilers". The only tin foil I see here is coming from you.

[snooker]

>>>If foam had corrupted the skin of the craft early in flight, sensors would have failed well before re-entry.

and how do you know this as fact?

re-entry plasma in space, a new discovery. Why not write it up for the science journals.

snooker