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#900

Author: i_tell_it_like_it_is_1
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:22

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NASCAR engineers never would have allowed Space Shuttles Challenger and
Columbia to launch.  "If that bird ain't safe, we are going to
blackflag it until it is!"

The problems on Challenger and Columbia were well known before they
were sent up on their ill-fated missions.  But NASA (and some have
suggested the government knew as well) that those problems existed but
still allowed the flights to go on.

As a result, 7 astronauts were sacrificed to the Gods.

NASCAR engineers never would have let those birds fly, given their
problems.  Whenever there is a car with apparent safety issues, those
in charge of NASCAR will not allow that car to participate.

NASA would do well to take the same tack when it comes to Space Shuttle
launchings! 

itellitlikeitis
(to many, many people's dismay)

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#901

Author: chefmcc
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 05:40

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I don't think it's Daryll, I think it's his *brother* Daryll.

Do many NASCAR "engineers" have a working knowledge of jet
proplusion?Trajectory, as it is related to zero gravity situations?
Aren't these the same guys who *duct tape* cars back together in order
to finish a race?

Maybe NASCAR "engineers" (aren't they car mechanics?) could do what
Daryll says but wouldn't the shuttle just turn left all afternoon? And
then occassionaly hit a wall, and then the astronauts would have to
fight each other back at mission control.
Any way they're gonna GIT 'ER DUN!

I do like his conspiracy theory though, it gets big points for
originality and humor.

have fun be brave
Paul

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#902

Author: Marvin The Paranoid Android
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:12

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Maybe they should merge angencies -- best of both worlds. Corporate
sponsors all over the shuttle -- 'Budwieser' logo's down the side of
each solid fuel booster rocket.

And they would henceforth be known as NASACAR.

Cheers!

-- Marvie

chefmcc wrote:
> I don't think it's Daryll, I think it's his *brother* Daryll.
>
> Do many NASCAR "engineers" have a working knowledge of jet
> proplusion?Trajectory, as it is related to zero gravity situations?
> Aren't these the same guys who *duct tape* cars back together in order
> to finish a race?
>
> Maybe NASCAR "engineers" (aren't they car mechanics?) could do what
> Daryll says but wouldn't the shuttle just turn left all afternoon? And
> then occassionaly hit a wall, and then the astronauts would have to
> fight each other back at mission control.
> Any way they're gonna GIT 'ER DUN!
>
> I do like his conspiracy theory though, it gets big points for
> originality and humor.
> 
> have fun be brave
> Paul

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#903

Author: Jim Chandler
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:36

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chefmcc wrote:
> I don't think it's Daryll, I think it's his *brother* Daryll.
> 
> Do many NASCAR "engineers" have a working knowledge of jet
> proplusion?Trajectory, as it is related to zero gravity situations?
> Aren't these the same guys who *duct tape* cars back together in order
> to finish a race?
> 
> Maybe NASCAR "engineers" (aren't they car mechanics?) could do what
> Daryll says but wouldn't the shuttle just turn left all afternoon? And
> then occassionaly hit a wall, and then the astronauts would have to
> fight each other back at mission control.
> Any way they're gonna GIT 'ER DUN!
> 
> I do like his conspiracy theory though, it gets big points for
> originality and humor.
> 
> have fun be brave
> Paul
> 

No, you have the usual uninformed view of NASCAR.  Were you to throw off 
your vision of redneck bubbas running around in old moonshining cars you 
would discover that NASCAR engineeers are just that...engineers. 
Mechanical engineers, and damned good ones at that.  Just how do you 
think that the drivers are abla to survive crashes at the near 200 mph 
speeds that they drive these days?  Because of duct tape?  Not likely. 
Those cars are engineered to withstand the punishment that 500 miles of 
200 mph racing dishes out.  Think your Monte Carlo would do that?  It 
wouldn't even get near those speeds and if it were to crash would end up 
in a ball of cruched metal, and YOU wouldn't survive.  I think you owe 
the engineers of NASCAR an apology, and you owe yourself some real 
research into what it takes to build one of those cars.  Taint easy, you 
know.

JimC

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#904

Author: Anne D.
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:39

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> No, you have the usual uninformed view of NASCAR.  Were you to throw off 
> your vision of redneck bubbas running around in old moonshining cars you 
> would discover that NASCAR engineeers are just that...engineers. 
> Mechanical engineers, and damned good ones at that.  Just how do you think 
> that the drivers are abla to survive crashes at the near 200 mph speeds 
> that they drive these days?  Because of duct tape?  Not likely. Those cars 
> are engineered to withstand the punishment that 500 miles of 200 mph 
> racing dishes out.  Think your Monte Carlo would do that?  It wouldn't 
> even get near those speeds and if it were to crash would end up in a ball 
> of cruched metal, and YOU wouldn't survive.  I think you owe the engineers 
> of NASCAR an apology, and you owe yourself some real research into what it 
> takes to build one of those cars.  Taint easy, you know.
>
> JimC

Jim, dude, we're poking fun at you.  Stop taking yourself so seriously, ok? 
What were you expecting, posting this off-topic stuff to such an odd variety 
of newsgroups?

Ask the Earnhart and Allison families how safe they think it is to ride at 
200+ mph in a NASCAR vehicle.

Anne D. <--was there at Pocono the day Bobby Allison wrecked for the last 
time.

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#899

Author: Kate
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:04

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<TColspamnot@toast.net>> wrote in message 
news:indhf25qegfuou5h8f9umopdf9kop79spj@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 16:23:51 -0500, "Kate" <svtkate@spam.filter.selby.ws>
> wrote:
>
>>Sooooooooooo the good ol boys at  NASCARaren't running it,
>>so "woulda, coulda, shoulda" just doesn't cut it.
>>
>
> NASCAR?  Isn't that the silly pasttime pursued by frustrated wannabe
> athletes who drive cars and chase each other around an oval track.  That's
> about as exciting as watching traffic lights change in Cary!
>
> Ray H..

Don't know for sure, I have never watched it. I live in the very state where 
they worship it too!

Kate

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