During this mornings news briefs I have heard several times about a "possible" terrorist attack on Columbia. Let me be the first to say this is not the case.
For terrorists to have attacked the shuttle from the outside they would have had to use some seriously advanced surface to air missiles due to the fact they lost contact at approx 200,000 feet. The current battery of shoulder launched missiles in the world could not reach that high if they were on steroids. And there are no "hostile" missile batteries anywhere near where it disappeared, let alone any that are designed to reach that height.
The only way for a terrorist to have done this was for them to have done something while it was on the ground before lift off. I can safely say there is a better chance that this is all faked and the astronauts are actually on a alien space ship doing some kind of cross-species meeting than they were taken down by a terrorist attack.
Posted by Muddy at February 1, 2003 03:42 PM | TrackBack