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- From: gallas2@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Sean Michael Gallagher)
- Subject: Re: Today in 1986-Remember the Challenger
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 03:05:33 GMT
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- nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:
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- >Oh, give me a break. Seven trained people, flying a brand-new,
- >more-or-less untested vehicle? They knew the risks. How is this even
- >comparable to massive tragedies like the famines in the Horn of
- >Africa, or the Azerbaijan earthquake, or even to the Lockerbie
- >bombing? To any airliner crash? There are even highway pileups which
- >kill more.
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- >Sure, it's a tragedy. But don't go blowing it out of proportion.
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- >Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu
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- There are many tragedies which occur every day in the world, but if I felt as
- deeply about each of them as I do about Challenger, I wouldn't be sane for
- very long. You can't measure a tragedy in terms of the sheer magnitude of
- catastrophe. It is subjective, measured by how it affects you. You can't
- allow yourself to weep for everyone who suffers everywhere in the world, so
- you weep for those who you know, or can relate to. I saw the Challenger 7 as
- not just another seven marks on the death board like you did, but as heroes
- who died expanding the frontiers of human knowledge. They died for humanity.
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- Have you no hopes? No dreams? I did, until Challenger ripped them out from
- under me.
- Sean
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- P.S. I'm sorry if that sounded like a flame...I wrote what I thought and don't
- like getting sarcastic responses like that one.
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