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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (387)	2/6/2003 1:03:41 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (2) of 627

Make a list 16days long of why you couldn't get out side and try to look at the damage. You forget the caveat: Without creating the very damage you are hoping to look for. - a several hundred pound person travelling at a few feet a second is about as damaging as a 2 to 3 pound piece of foam traveling at a hundred feet per second. As for the memo - I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that there are several hundred such memo's per flight. It is the nature of complex systems like this. BTW - I am not saying that NASA didn't do something wrong, but you and I not have enough information to know. In addition you obviously have not tried to test and run highly complex systems. Clark

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