OT: Now that's some data recovery

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, May 06, 2008, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>A hard drive containing scientific data from an experiment aboard the
>Shuttle Columbia was 99% recovered from the charred remains of the
>drive:
>
>  http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hard-drive-recovered-from-columbia
>
>(Though the photo of the drive's innards look pretty intact.)

Several years ago on the Linux step-by-step mailing list, somebody (he goes
by dep) pointed out that the astronauts in the first shuttle explosion were
probably still alive when the crew capsule hit the water.  Unfortunately
NASA assumes that there's now way anybody would survive an explosion, so
has no provisions for escape.

Bill
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