Columbia Investigators Consider Wing Seal
 

"Columbia investigators said Tuesday they are growing more certain of what brought down the shuttle: A seal on the left wing was struck by foam during liftoff and fell off the next day, creating a gap that let in enough scorching gases during re-entry to rip the ship apart.

A seal from Columbia's left wing is now believed to be the mystery object that floated away in orbit and it was almost certainly struck by something like a chunk of foam before it came off, the accident investigators said."

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030422_2561.html

your point is?

and we care, because.... ?

Who is we?

we the collective GFY hive.

if we wanted to read the news, we'd find it ourselves.

Oh...I thought maybe it was you and Swoit.

Well if the we you speak of are not interested in the topic of a thread...here is a suggestion...do not read the thread. You can thank me later.

Thank you for what?

Hmm...ahh...well...the suggestion. You can thank me later for the explanation.

faulty wing seals are scary.

So true. But the part that really freaks me out is the foam. I don't have that many wing seals to be worried about, but I'm sure there is a lot of foam around my house. What is some of it were to hit something? *shudders*

am i the only one here with wings?