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Challenger
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:21:39 GMT
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Jon,
Great choice of pic to cap the .space sidebar! Really touches me.
I remember the day this happened 16 years ago today, the day after my
20th birthday; three Apollo astronauts died on the day I was born, too.
Really makes you stop and think about how tough the Frontier really is to
conquer. Kirk and Picard, Skywalker and Kenobi, all those stories of the
future's past make it seem so easy, but we need to remember the terrible
price that can be paid in getting a Fleebnork drive or a pod's antigrav
thrusters to work well. We need to honor those who give us the dreams, and
pursue those dreams, even if we're just playing. We need to argue over
space carriers and ravioli cans, and build moonbase toystore models, and
wonder at the size of a capital ship. Because when we do, life matters, our
lives and those we lost.
I'm Carpe'ing a Diem right now. .space is so darned cool!
Are you going to change pics every now and then, mixing real space
exploration with fictional/dream exploration and life? I like it. Keep up
the good work.
Peace and Long Life,
Tony Alexander
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| This is interesting, can I ask what this is related to? I understand it's the Challenger disaster, but I can't find how it's referenced on Lugnet. I remember it vividly. I was a 17 and a senior in high school. We were at lunch at the local pizza (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| I will never forget the day: I attended school at Florida Institute of Technology, 1984-1988. It was a beautiful sunny day and ten minutes before a physics test. My roommates and I stood out on the deck to watch the shuttle go up. We watched it rise (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| Glad you liked it Tony. That might be a good idea to occasionally change out the title with another image. I'll remember that. [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) Shipyard - (URL) Moonbase - (URL) Store - (URL) Alexander" <tw0nst3r@startrek.net> wrote in (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Who can? I was young, in Primary School at the time being in Australia and the whole 10 hour delay I remember waking up and having breakfast and hearing on the radio that the space shuttle Challenger was destroyed shortly after takeoff. I (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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| I don't mean to sound like I don't care (which is far from the truth), but... what sidebar is it that's being discussed? (22 years ago, 1-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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