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Originally posted by Cowperson+Sep 8 2004, 11:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Sep 8 2004, 11:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-octothorp@Sep 8 2004, 05:44 PM
One of these times, NASA is going to screw up and crash-land something like this right ontop of a mid-sized midwestern town. They may be the smartest guys in the world, but in my opinion they're not smart enough to be sending objects crashing towards the earth at 11km a second.
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Well, it hit where they said it would.
It just hit harder than they said it would.
Cowperson [/b][/quote]
Yeah, I'm just saying that they constantly make mistakes, and so far they're lucky that the mistakes have cost the lives of only a few dedicated astronauts. If they're wrong about how a parachute is going to open, they could just as easily be wrong about some element of the tragectory.