{"id":373,"date":"2008-01-22T07:27:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2017-11-30T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:45:44","slug":"the-dark-side-of-space-disaster-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/22\/the-dark-side-of-space-disaster-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"The dark side of space disaster theories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/thedebrisfield.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/are-you-qualified.html\">The Debris Field<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\">The dark side of space disaster theories<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"byline\">by James Oberg<br \/>\n<span class=\"datetime\">Monday, January 21, 2008<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Space disasters attract so much public attention and often involve such complex and subtle sequences of events that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an entire Internet literature of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153crackpot causes&#8217;son par with JFK assassination myths. To the degree that innovative analysis is often critical to reconstructing from partial and often garbled evidence&#8217;s\u201da shocking causal sequence leading from goodness to disaster, the initial investigation period demands that critical judgment be held somewhat in check so as not to discourage imagination.<\/p>\n<p>However, once a logical reconstruction gels, is tested, and then is ultimately verified by being implemented and hence reducing future flight hazards, that official explanation achieves a substantial level of authenticity. But not to everyone&#8217;s satisfaction, apparently, as a search of still-thriving non-traditional explanations of the Apollo 1 fire, the Apollo 13 breakdown, the Challenger disintegration, and the Columbia catastrophe, whose fifth anniversary now approaches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/1043\/1\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With thanks to The Debris Field The dark side of space disaster theories by James Oberg Monday, January 21, 2008 Space disasters attract so much public attention and often involve such complex and subtle sequences of events that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/22\/the-dark-side-of-space-disaster-theories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3284,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}