Dan C wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:46:21 -0500, Duane Bozarth wrote:

... and therefore would have shut down the engines. ...

No, it would have been one bad input to a logic-voting system...
It also is in a safety system, not the primary operating system
apparently...

IOW, it ain't nearly as big a deal as all the news-babes are trying to
breathlessly tell us it is...

It's big enough to keep the NASA administrators and engineers from going
ahead with a launch. Perhaps they know more than you do?

Well, as of last night they were planning on going ahead irregardless of
this sensor...it was listening to them yesterday evening that provided
the information I had about the fact this is the redundant safety system
and only 1-in-4 in it...not exactly an irreplaceable piece of data...