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ISRAELI PAPER-VIDEO SHOWS 2 'LONG' CRACKS ON COLUMBIA'S LEFT WING EVIDENT BEFORE RE-ENTRY!
ABC Australian News and the 'Daily Maariv' of Israel ^
| Tuesday, February 4, 2003 1:55 AM Austrailian Time
| Staff Report
Posted on 02/03/2003 9:15:52 AM PST by ewing
The Iseal Daily Maariv has published a picture of the United States Space Shuttle Columbia apparently showing two cracks in its left wing.
The picture was taken 11 days before the shuttle broke up on its way back to Earth on Saturday killing all seven crew.
The photograph was extracted from footage taken by a camera onbard the shuttle during a live staellite videoconference between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Col. Ilan Ramon the first Israeli to travel into space.
During the 15 minute conversation with Mr. Sharon and other Israeli officials, Ramon offered to share his view of Earth from the shuttle.
The video caught part of the shuttle's left wing showing two 'long' cracks, according to the paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
TOPICS: Government; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cracks; leftwing; shuttle; video
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Searching now for the tape..
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:15:53 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
Perhaps you should've waited to have the actual images.
Just a thought.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:23:41 AM PST
by
VaBthang4
To: ewing
From the article:
The Maariv report drew a guarded response from Tim Stevenson, an engineer at the Space Research Centre at Britain's University of Leicester.
In a phone interview with AFP, Mr Stevenson said that although he had not seen the pictures what looked like cracks were possibly a trick of the light.
"You can't see very much of the wing from inside the space station," he said.
"It may be that the shot you see there is of antennas. There are thin wires that run along the hinge of the payload bay doors and (in a picture) they would appear in contrast. They would appear over the wing as a thin line."
He added: "To be honest, the crew would have observed (a big crack) very, very quickly, particularly if it was big enough to be observed in any kind of video footage, and they would have acted very, very differently if they had observed it."
Another point, he said, was that a large, visible crack on the top surface of the wing "would manifest itself as a structural failure very early on.
"Given the point at which NASA said the break-up occurred, the shuttle would have already undertaken its S-turn manoeuvres (to slow its descent), which are relatively stressful.
"To put it bluntly, if the wing was going to break up, it was going to break up a long time before that point," he said.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:24:17 AM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Bush/Cheney 2004)
To: VaBthang4
The webpage of the paper is on overload, I get nothing but an error message.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:24:54 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
Be very skeptical. The image was on another thread and was half debunked.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:26:27 AM PST
by
dennisw
(http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
To: PhiKapMom
Would there be two of those antennas on the wing?
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:26:35 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
If you are talking about this pic. It's Fake, no way it could be from Colombia.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:26:38 AM PST
by
OXENinFLA
To: ewing
Try and see if you can take the image[s] from the particular site and load it up to your personal webspace.
May make it easier.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:27:29 AM PST
by
VaBthang4
To: OXENinFLA
Is it a thermal pic, perhaps showing heat?
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:27:51 AM PST
by
ewing
To: OXENinFLA
It's Moby Dick in a top hat.
10
posted on
02/03/2003 9:27:53 AM PST
by
r9etb
To: ewing
Nope.
It's as phony as Clinton's tears.
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:28:40 AM PST
by
Poohbah
(Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
To: OXENinFLA
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:31:17 AM PST
by
ewing
To: OXENinFLA
Thank you, and the article is patently irresponsible journalism...Stirring the pot...again
To: dennisw
It looks like there is another crack by the wing base, if that isn't an antenna..plus the sun could be playing light tricks on the photograph
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:32:56 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
Here is a picture:
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:36:46 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave)
To: Poohbah
Are there any aerospace pros here that might know if it was a fake or not?
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:37:09 AM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
can't be the wind edge...the wing edge is black (carbon edge..not tiles) for at least a foot back from the edge.
To: ewing
You're talking to one. The picture is rather obviously Photoshopped...
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:38:18 AM PST
by
Poohbah
(Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
To: ewing
Too much curvature shown on the Earth in the background - Columbia was in a much lower orbit. A fake, IMHO.
To: Blood of Tyrants
There are three cracks, not two.. the one at the base stops about 2/3 of the way up the wing
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posted on
02/03/2003 9:39:06 AM PST
by
ewing
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