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February 01, 2003

I'm sitting here in Dalllas, near Downtown, not only worried about the shuttle crew, but wondering whether it (or pieces of it?) will slam into my place...
Dear Lord! What a nightmare!
And MSNBC is reporting that "someone" heard a loud bang and that the shuttle has exploded.
The film caught by the WFAA Channel 8 reporter at Fair Park doesn't look good.
There are multiple looking "pieces" with tails of smoke behind them.
CNN keeps pointing out that the first Israeli astronaut is on board, as well as 2 women.
Can those damn terrorists hit our shuttle?

Update: I must be crazy (with worrying about everything) thinking at first that Islamist terrorists had brought down Columbia...sorry!
It appears now that it was caused by some sort of technical failure/explosion on re-entry of the atmosphere.
I'm no NASA employee, but if you watch the film carefully, you can see lots of "small" pieces of debris in the smoke trails behind and I'm guessing that those are the heat tiles...
We will see.
I do know this though: I'll bet you $50 that the "Palestinians" and other hate-filled Islamists (like Saddam Hussein) are hopping up and down and shooting off their guns for joy that the Israeli astronaut who was one of the men who flew the mission to bomb the Osirik reactor in Iraq in 1981 has been tragically killed.