Re: [twuug] Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on reentry!

["Ethan O'Toole" <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> failed miserably. Do we realy need death to motivate us to increase
> funding or safety. Sheesh...

NASA got some good publicity from the Mars lander, but other than that --
NASA doesn't really get publicity unless a disaster happens.

> Nor I, actualy the bigest concern for me are the wacked out ppl on ebay
> trying to make a dollor on the tragety. Not all of them. I'd like to
> have something to remember this day by but realy

Yea, there was someone that had memorial pieces of columbia heat shield
tile. They had them on there before the accident. Talk about eerie.

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3205352838&category=13904
> I have recently also heard of ppl trying to sell actual wreckage but
> doing a quick search seemed to show nothing. Thank goodness.

eBay is blocking them. Whenever there is a large disaster, eBay blocks all
auctions related to it starting at the time of the disaster. A pretty good
policy.


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