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02-01-2003, 03:52 PM | #22 |
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Unbelievable and shocking! I remember when challenger blew up. One of the astronauts, Judy Resnick was from Akron Ohio and her and her family use to live not far from my house.
So sad to see this happen again.
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02-01-2003, 04:09 PM | #23 |
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just got off my 48 hour bended i thought i was still drunk i cannot believe it truely awful.
My sympathys to all involved
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02-01-2003, 05:46 PM | #24 |
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The NASA chappy in the press conference seemed pretty adamant that the re-entry was precisely as it should have been, so not sure where this speed story came from. He said the shuttle was performing a "reversal" (which sounded like roll) at the time contact was lost. If so, rolls tend to stress the wings the most so maybe that's where the problem was.
Sad day. I wonder what this means for the International Space Station? It sort of depends on the shuttle.
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02-01-2003, 05:50 PM | #25 |
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I saw that on the news and I can't believe it. How terrible for their families.
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02-01-2003, 05:52 PM | #26 |
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I came back from going to the cinema and this is what i heard. It ttruely is very sad. Especially as they probabally didn't know what was happening before it was too late.
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02-01-2003, 06:31 PM | #27 |
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I don't think they could have done anything even if they did know what was wrong. it had something to do with the tiles on the bottom i think.
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02-01-2003, 06:41 PM | #28 |
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what i meant is they would have been dead before they knew they were going to die.
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02-01-2003, 06:50 PM | #29 |
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Oh.
I don't know which would be worse, knowing your about to die and can't do anything about it or just dying all of a sudden. either way it's really sad.
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02-01-2003, 07:00 PM | #30 |
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i found out after i got out of orchestra at 12:00. its pretty sad. its also bad for the isrealies cause they had their first person going into space and they lost them. i just wish they had better footage/information that way maybe nasa could figure out what went wrong.
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02-01-2003, 07:13 PM | #31 |
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People die everyday... in some respects, they were more fortunate than some in that they didn't suffer terrible deaths, and acutally did something with their lives before they departed this world. I still think the space program is wasteful when there are so many poor/dying people out there that could use that kind of money.
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02-01-2003, 07:41 PM | #32 |
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i don't think the space program is a waste of time but i do agree there are people who could benifit greatly from that kind of money. with the kind of money movie stars, althletes, Disney,etc makes they could really help all those starving and in need of medical attention kids you see on TV.
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02-01-2003, 08:25 PM | #33 |
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The space program is not a waste of money. A lot of what makes peoples lives much better have come through discoveries which have been made through the space program.
The space program is no different than what man was doing during the early sea faring days.
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Never said it was a waste--just that it was wasteful. Its kinda like buying an ultra-luxury car when you could keep a small village alive.
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These are scientists who are doing their job and making scientific discoveries.
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my mom had CNN watching it today, and a lot people are going to suffer from what happened! I really feel sorry for the familes.
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This is so terribly sad
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And the bottom line is when you say the space program is wasteful you are also insinuating that these people wasted their lives for nothing. And I am certainly going to give you the benefit of the doubt here that you certainly didnt mean that. And that you believe that their lives and their jobs DID have purpose and benfit. Dont you?
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I was gone all day...but I heard about this first. It was so sad! One of the astronauts was from Racine...that makes it even more depressing to me.
A weird thing...my mom found a copy of an old "National Geographic" this morning...it was the one covering the 1st Columbia mission. It was such a strange coincidence, considering she could have picked up any of the about 100 old "National Geographic"s we have in the basement.
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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.
However, It is sad, nonetheless. I mourn the demise of these people and can't imagine how their families are taking this.
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