Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Saturday, February 01, 2003


The Times gives six possible causes for Columbia's failure of which I got two (well, one-and-a-half), Professor InstaPundit one, and they pay him the big bucks. (I promise I will not mention his name again -- for a while.) But brace yourselves:

"There's a strong possibility they may never know," said John Tylko, a space shuttle expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "There are no on-board flight recorders that are recoverable," as is usually the case in commercial airplane crashes.

That last fact to me is remarkable, considering the almost infinite chances for something to go wrong on that spacecraft.


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