I have no pithy commentary or speculation regarding the Columbia disaster. Everything that can be said can be found elsewhere. You don’t come here for the news anyway, do you?

The People’s Republic of Seabrook, however, includes several very personal entries on the subject. I recommend this one.

And, via Q Daily News, a Time magazine article about what likely went wrong… as well as what didn’t.

Okay. I do have one thing to suggest to NASA: In the future, avoid using any word beginning with the third letter of the English alphabet to name your reusable space vehicles.

I’m a network/systems administrator. Superstition comes with the territory.