Damn, that’s just so sad. :(
Ramon took with him a bunch of things, including a picture drawn by a 14-yeat-old who died at Auschwitz.
A BBC story from a couple of days ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2664247.stm
Dammit, it just gets sadder.
Any news as to where the main ‘comet’ is now? Or did it completely burn out?
Horrible…
Judging from the video footage, and the reports on what the crew went through after the Challenger explosion, I wish I could agree with you, but I can’t.
The Columbia’s first landing at Edwards. April 14, 1981.
I remember watching this landing in utter amazement. I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed anything that has held me in such awe in my entire 46 years on this earth. Tiny fighter jets flying by her side as she glided in to finally touchdown softly on the hard desert floor. It was perfect and she was beautiful. I was floating for weeks after that, feeling anything was possible.
God, this make me so sad. Those people. Christ.
CNN a few minutes ago was also conjecturing on the possibility of survivors, but at 12,500 mph there would be no chance.
not again…
not again.
Sadly, this is true.
I am not inclined to favor terrorists as an explanation.
Given the speed and altitude, WE would have trouble shooting down a Space Shuttle, without the use of interceptor aircraft. I refuse to believe that a gaggle of Arabs out in the Texas scrubland with a black market SAM setup could manage it.
I am reluctant to consider sabotage. If an American astronaut could be a Muslim fundamentalist wacko without his NASA handlers realizing it… then ANYONE could be, and we’re all doomed.
Nope. Can’t buy that.
My brother woke me up at the beginning of the hour (9:0something…) and told me, “the shuttle just blew up and we’re about to bomb Iraq.” I goes to the game room to turn on a TV, and for once he’s not BSing me. Turns out what he meant by the second part was the deadline to bomb Iraq has/is about to run out. But still, the shuttle blew up. Over freakin’ Texas. A lotta people stop by Texas to die, it seems.
Brutus: Aye, I’ve since heard (on CNN) about the hydrazine, and a description thereof. It’s the radioactive bit that puzzled and alarmed me. Of course, she heard it on FOX news, and I’m given to understand they’re, oh, less than 100% accurate, at any given time.
Of course, it is possible. I was just wondering if she might have misheard or misunderstood.
[sub]I’d like “whom it may concern” to know this is not the way I like to wake up after a whopping two hours of sleep, thank you. We’re thinking of all those friends and family members right now… damn.[/sub]
Odd coincidence. Once of my first thoughts was to the voice-over of transmissions from Columbia at the end of Countdown.
I don’t know if I shall ever be able to listen to that song again.
I’d be pretty f*cking amazed if it was a terroist target.:dubious:
couple of things, that’s i’ve had up for me, so to cleared some stuff up…
there’s no way that a surface to air missile hit it… a sam has a range of 10-15,000 feet. the flight was flying at 207,000 feet and mach 6(six times the speed of sound). if, god forbid, this was terrorist related(which i would bet the mortgage it’s not), the bomb would have to be onboard, which with the kind of security that surrounded this flight, wasn’t going to happen. my money is that the plane just flew apart… it’s a tragedy, but not terrorism
also, skeezix, you’re spot on in regards to hydrazine. it’s not radioactive, however if inhaled, if it covers a single membrane in one’s lungs, you will suffocate and die within 48 hours… that’s why they’re telling people not to go near it. it’s not a scare tactic…
time to break out the rosary.
I’m not in complete shock. I’m not mourning. I’m overall… empty. I’m a little shaken, and impatient. That’s it.
Coldfire can damn me vehemently to hell all he wants, but that’s how I fell.
Just heard the news. This is so sad. My thoughts are with the family of the astronauts
I just saw this on the news. I feel just sick about it. I was sixteen when the Challenger exploded, and I’m thinking the same thing now that I was then: I hope this isn’t it for the space program.
My grandmother said that something has fallen in her yard. She’s south of DFW.
If you can’t say something nice, don’t post at all.
Have some heart, for crying out loud.