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Re: Challenger
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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:54:09 GMT
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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 place and it was snowing. When we jumped back in
the car, my friends said the shuttle had just blown up and we thought they
were just screwing around. But they made up shut up and listen to the radio;
they still didn't know exactly what had happened, only that some kind of
terrible accident had occurred.
I had to wait all day until I got to work that night to see any television
reports. A sad day for space indeed.
-Evil Wayne
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"There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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In lugnet.space, Tony Alexander writes:
> 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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| "Wayne McCaul" <wmccaul@NOSPAMattbi.com> wrote in message news:H9HDE9.G9w@lugnet.com... (...) I put up a small picture of the crew in the .space sidebar yesterday, and took it down last night. (...) radio; (...) Good story. I was in 3rd grade and (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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