Cosmic bolt theory in shuttle disaster

[mad1]

Here is a article about a cosmic bolt efecting the space shuttle, do not know how realistic this is?Cosmic Bolt

That'll surely take NASA off the hook.

[Theophylact]

It might have been a non-cosmic bolt -- or nut; there's a lot of space junk up there, traveling at high velocity relative to a spacecraft. The Hubble's been holed before. A fleck of paint moving at 30,000 mph has an awful lot of kinetic energy.