The paronoid types that work for NASA security are always on the lookout for sabotage and the people that might be a risk to any project or any of NASA property.
Security members don't make themselves scarce around any NASA site that I've ever been to. So with all that said, and the idea that NASA is very very good at security and that any incident that is out of the norm gets a review by the security office, maybe I can pose my idea about sabotage without getting ripped by everyone.
The fuel gauge, the cover that fell off, and then most importantly the tile from near the front wheel well just can't all be common errors in my book. I'm paronoid too and in my mind this many common errors on a rocket that has been rebuilt, reworked, replanned, and reviewed as this one has is just not likely. I never will use my statistics books again so one of you bright people will have to do the quantitative interpretation of the shuttle data. I don't even want to think about what would be in and what would be out of a shuttle data set so you're on your own. Statistics aside, there have been just too many unexplained errors with the shuttles.
Here we go, somebody is ready to jump on me and say I'm off my rocker, or I just don't understand large projects, or the shuttle is so complex it's beyond the norm or some other like thing.
Go ahead, rip me, but with all I've done in the past I NEVER got one of my crewmen killed or crippled. The person that taught me my job said,"There are only two things that ruin good machinery; stupidity and dirt", but he wasn't paronoid and he never thought about sabotage. There are three things. irsouth2