Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 02:38:16 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com> Cc: <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <a05200f26ba6224f27fa6@[193.0.9.156]> In-Reply-To: <3417F02C-35FF-11D7-9E46-0003937C0B34@mac.com> References: <3417F02C-35FF-11D7-9E46-0003937C0B34@mac.com>
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At 8:07 AM -0800 2003/02/01, John Martinez wrote: >> Seven soles lost in the disaster. > > Yeah, what a tragedy for our nation. I guess they have to rename the agency again. After Challenger blew up, I heard that NASA stood for Need Another Seven Astronauts. I guess now it will have to be NASAA -- Need Another Seven Astronauts Again. 0.5 ;-0 > I hope this doesn't affect our space program negatively, but we will > recover from this. It was almost three years after Challenger before we finally put another shuttle in space. It's probably going to be two to three years before we launch another shuttle, assuming we do launch any more shuttles. What's going to happen to the space station in the meanwhile? What about the people there now? With Russian commitment having crumbled, are we going to leave those people to die? Assuming they come back safely, do we abandon the ISS, the way we abandoned the previous two space stations? Moreover, just exactly how is Bush going to handle four simultaneous crises -- continuing to hunt down Al Qaeda, going after Sadam, dealing with North Korea, and now dealing with the aftermath of Columbia? IMO, this is the end of his presidency. He tried to do too many things at the same time, and go after too many old enemies at the same time. > My heart and prayers go out to the families of the astronauts. Mine too. I just hope that we can prove that there wasn't a bomb or sabotage involved, because otherwise we've just seen the start of WWIII. The Israelis have nuclear capability, and they've never been shy to use any force they deem fit when they think they have enough evidence to convince themselves. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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