: [Sca-cooks] OT: Space Shuttle disintegrates on landing approach

[chirhart_1]

 Its called caring.          From chrhart


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From: "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: : [Sca-cooks] OT: Space Shuttle disintegrates on landing
approach


>
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > "Ya know I have noticed that this is the general reaction to this
Shuttle
> > Occurance.First shock, then maybe tears, and then we get on with our
> day..."
>
> You know, I honestly don't understand all this shock and tears about the
> deaths of complete strangers- I honestly don't. I'm not being funny, and
I'm
> not saying people should or shouldn't feel that way, or any way, I just
> simply don't understand it. There are so many tragic deaths, each and
every
> day, from war and torture, from starvation and disease, what makes these
> deaths different? If you were to mourn each of them this way, you'd be a
> basket case. Please, try to explain it to me.
>
> Me, I'm just glad it was 7 instead of 17 or 70. And, I hope no one was
hurt,
> or will be hurt, by the debris. And, I most sincerely hope that it doesn't
> shut the space program down- it has given us far too much, not just in
> dreams, but in technology and learning. I'm just afraid that the cutbacks
in
> finance might be why the shuttle crashed- not enough money for proper
> maintenance.
>
> On a somewhat less somber note, I was very interested in the final
paragraph
> of the NYT article this AM. It said:
>
> ###########################################################
>
> Colonel Ramon, had little room to take personal items on the flight, but
he
> did lift off with a piece of Holocaust-era art: a small black-and-white
> drawing called "Moon Landscape" that he had borrowed from the Yad Vashem
Art
> Museum in Israel. The drawing, by Peter Ginz, a 14-year-old Jewish boy
> killed at Auschwitz in 1944, was a picture by a child who dreamed of
faraway
> places and sketched what he thought the Earth would look like from the
> mountains of the moon.
>
> This morning, nearly 60 years later, it was incinerated over the skies of
> Texas.
>
> #########################################################
>
> For all that we have lost this battle, as that young boy lost his, I think
> we're winning the War- Look how far his dreams have risen.
>
> Phlip
>
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
>
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....