Space Shuttle Blew Up

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Arathorn
The difference between the Space shuttle tragedies, in hindsight, with the early seafaring days mishaps is the media. Back then, news comes to people in trickles. Now, one can find out about it at almost the same time as everyone else does so it becomes larger than life.

The other difference is that the majority of times in the early seafaring days - the families nor anyone else ever knew what happened to the ships or sailors.

Now today - if it happens in the US or anywhere else - people can talk about it with people who live 6000 miles away - like we're doing right now on entmoot. The Internet has made the world a much smaller place - much smaller than planes or telephone in my opinion. I guess I'm still amazed at the internet and how it has enabled people to talk from all over the world like this (even if we don't always agree).

It's also amazing that we're only celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first air flight - the Wright Brothers.