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I'm kind of amazed that one of the two helicopters they used went down with mechanical failure.
I dunno. Helicopters are very complex and are sometimes known to fail even with the best preventative maintenance.
Remember the attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran back in '79 or so? Called off due to a helicopter's mechanical issues. (In the process of leaving Iran, a transport collided with a helicopter on the ground, killing some American servicemen.)
bon bon called it last night:
Was there ever any doubt?
Remind me again, why is that kind of thing OK?
Friend's husband was a helicopter mechanic in the AF. Let's just say that they never ran out of work with those things. And he avoided flying in them as much as possible.
Remind me again, why is that kind of thing OK?
Because it's an accident and liberals have no sense of humor. Or so I've been lead to believe.
WH is debating whether to release photos of OBL in death.
Except if it's an accident it only happens the one time because you FIRE the eejit who failed to properly proofread the headline. Ugh. But yeah, I see your point.
I am a total lurker lately, but I just love coming here after an Event and getting tons of quotables from my Buffistae. Loves!
Even if they put bin Laden's head on a pike outside the WH, conspiracy theorists would still claim he was alive. It's his brother's/son's head! After all, do we really know what he looked like?! The crazy cannot be appeased.
The crazy cannot be appeased.
See also: birthers.
ION, microbes from Earth did not survive on the moon for two and a half years, as was commonly reported. Moon Microbe Mystery Finally Solved
On Nov. 19, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean made a precision landing on the lunar surface in Oceanus Procellarum, Latin for the Ocean of Storms. Their touchdown point was a mere 535 feet (163 meters) from the Surveyor 3 lander -- and an easy stroll to the hardware that had soft-landed on the lunar terrain years before, on April 20, 1967.
The Surveyor 3 camera was easy pickings and brought back to Earth under sterile conditions by the Apollo 12 crew. When scientists analyzed the parts in a clean room, they found evidence of microorganisms inside the camera.
In short, a small colony of common bacteria -- Streptococcus Mitis -- had stowed away on the device.
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"The claim that a microbe survived 2.5 years on the moon was flimsy, at best, even by the standards of the time," said John Rummel, chairman of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Panel on Planetary Protection. "The claim never passed peer review, yet has persisted in the press -- and on the Internet -- ever since." [Coolest New Moon Discoveries]
The Surveyor 3 camera-team thought they had detected a microbe that had lived on the moon for all those years, "but they only detected their own contamination," Rummel told SPACE.com.