Topic: =/\= NASA external tank cracks cause revealed + 34,000 year old organisms

[stoneyface]

nasa has revealed the cause of all the tank cracking that has been a major issue. it seems that the alloy used for the tanks had a batch of poor qualilty materials. this lead to a bad alloy and therefore cracking.
article here: http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/110111rootcause/

next, how cool would it be to find 34,000 year old bacteria living in salt crystals AND find it in a sample that had been put away and forgotten about. well it has happened and is a really cool story. it seems that because salt crystals form so fast, they can trap living organisms into what one scientist refers to as "living snowglobes". awesome eh? read the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110113/sc_livescience/34000yearoldorganismsfoundburiedalive