RE: [OT] Columbia

<Rant>
Remember the days when if Newscasters had no information they would say
"we 
don't have any details right now, stay tuned for further developments". 
Is a 
frontal lobotomy a pre-requisite for being a talking head on CNN?

</Rant>

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	Thomas Barclay
Sent:	Sunday, February 02, 2003 2:21 PM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	[OT] Columbia

I watched it on TV within moments of the
happening. I know much time and analysis has
passed since then (I had a lot of company this
weekend), but what struck me the most was
two things: How inane radio and television
commentators and analysts can be (seeing the
Dallas video and saying things like "what would
the various rescue scenarios be?" when there
aren't really any) and how seemingly artificial
their veneer appears, moreso in the light of
serious events.

And of course, thinking of 7 brave men and
women, who reminded me of a number of
other brave men and women in space
programs the world wide. Men and women who
reached for the stars we all dream about, who
were making happen the bold future which is
the stuff of our games.  I feel great sorrow for
their families, but I feel a great pride in them
for the crew of STS-107 and other space
missions who are or were living the dream and
taking the great and knowing risks of visiting
the harshest environment known to mankind
and who carry with them not only the mundane
(well, pretty neat) experiments and working
satellites and such, but who also carry with
them the dreams of an entire world.

As someone said, Ad Astra, Per Aspera. And to
which I must add a hearty thank you and a
promise to remember and perservere in
supporting their noble aims. Some journeys are
made only in the physical world, and some few
special ones are made also in the mind and
heart (and this, I think, is one of those).

R.I.P. STS-107. God Bless Your Families and
Friends.

Tomb
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Mr. Thomas Barclay
Software Developer & Systems Analyst
thomas.barclay@stargrunt.ca
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