Shuttle crew see damage on Earth

[Celebration]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4745963.stm

Discovery Commander Eileen Collins described on Thursday how widespread environmental destruction on Earth is highly visible from the shuttle.

She warned people to take greater care of our planet and work towards protecting natural resources.

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"Sometimes you can see how there is erosion, and you can see how there is deforestation," Commander Collins said during a conversation from space with Japanese officials in Tokyo, including Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have

[LaurenG]

1. Well how about she mail a picture to the corporate president * nt

[quiet.american]

2. How long before the Busheviks smear her for daring to speak reality.

We know the drill by now:

She's crazy.
She's disgruntled.
She's a librul.
Her husband recommended her for the trip.

[Dhalgren]

3. Oooops! This will be Eileen's last shuttle mission.

Why does she hate America?

[beam me up scottie]

4. "Chatted" is the word for it.

Commander Collins, who is making her fourth shuttle flight, said her view from space emphasised how Earth's atmosphere must be protected too.

"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have."

While Commander Collins chatted from space, US space agency officials were busy trying to decide whether a rip in an insulation blanket that protects part of the shuttle surface could tear off and strike the spacecraft when Discovery re-enters the atmosphere, possibly causing damage.

Every time that woman opens her mouth, I cringe.
No wonder she seems to get along with Chimpy McDumbass.

[bahrbearian]

5. All right you've crossed the line, "Your grounded"

[sakabatou]

6. Houston flight center in the future...

Uh, flight crew we a have a no go. It seems that you have an enviromentalist onboard, and until you get him or her off, we cannot launch. Thank you.

[Desertrose]

7. Maybe we need to hear this more often.....

I would imagine with all that is going on with the shuttle's problems could put one in a rather reflective mood...

Pretty scary that the damege is visible from way up there...pretty sad, too. We do live in a fragile world...more so than we ever like to think about for too long.



&^%#damn stupid people who live on that planet...oh wait thats us....

we have messed ourselves up pretty good...or pretty badly is a better phrase.
:cry: