From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #27 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Saturday, February 1 2003 Volume 02 : Number 027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:21:35 -0500 From: Red Subject: RE: seven-seas OT Current events At 07:07 PM 2/1/03 -0000, you wrote: >i heard it was on our radio > >a space shuttle has crashed Another one??? Great.....makes you wonder who's running the damn space program here! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:23:15 -0500 From: Red Subject: RE: seven-seas OT Current events At 07:07 PM 2/1/03 -0000, you wrote: >i heard it was on our radio I've been out all morning doing errands and never heard it once...not on the radio in the car, not at the grocery store, gas station, Irish shop where I got my tea....not a word! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:43:14 -0500 From: "Nate Vanden Brook" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Current events > Another one??? > > Great.....makes you wonder who's running > the damn space program here! Three Disasters in 40+ years is a pretty good record if you ask me. Esp. when you consider the rest of the aerospace field or better yet the Russian space program that from it's inception till the fall had countless accidents that were never publicly reported. Blaming the space program is a mistake at time like this esp. when we are finally getting back around to the idea of going to Mars. This is a sad day in history and for the family members of those who died this morning. Yet the program must move on as must the nation. The best thing that could happen from this would be for NASA and the feds to evaluate what happened and to pour as much money back into the space program as possible so that we can achieve fusion rockets and the ability to visit other planets in our solar system. I personally would rather see deficits due to space exploration than some useless war in Iraq. Sorry about this but I am a bit of a space program junkie and as sad as this day is, I would hate to see something like this further set back a program that could mean so much to not only our country but the entire planet. Rest in Peace Columbia 7 n8 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:00:17 -0500 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Current events At 02:43 PM 2/1/03 -0500, you wrote: >Blaming the space program is a mistake at >time like this esp. when we are finally getting back around to the idea of >going to Mars. Why do we want to go to Mars??? Doubt if we could live there....... ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:19:04 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: RE: seven-seas OT Current events Woah, eerie timing, I just purchased the the DVD for Space Camp lsat night. Which came out around the time of the Challenger crash. A.I. - --- Red wrote: > At 07:07 PM 2/1/03 -0000, you wrote: > >i heard it was on our radio > > > >a space shuttle has crashed > > > Another one??? > > Great.....makes you wonder who's running > the damn space program here! > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:34:48 -0700 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Current events Space is a dangerous game, but we have to go there. It is our nature. As John Kennedy put it, we do these things "not because they are easy, but because they are hard" -- we need the goal, the challenge. And when something like this happens, we just have to pull up our socks and go on. - - Kristin ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:13:12 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Current events > Space is a dangerous game, but we have to go there. It is our nature. As > John Kennedy put it, we do these things "not because they are easy, but > because they are hard" -- we need the goal, the challenge. And when > something like this happens, we just have to pull up our socks and go on. Kristin, as someone who is from the Houston area, you know how proud and how hard the NASA community works and how close-knit it is.... our state licence plates have, poignantly coming from the left (west) side of the plate, a space shuttle arcing through the sky. My best friend and her husband worked at NASA for several years on the space station program and her husband's family is still in the area. I have visisted NASA there several times and have driven by NASA more times than I can count. There is a McDonald's with a huge box of fries in orbit above the restaurant. Everything revolves around the space program. My heart is there today and in Florida with all of those who are mourning the loss of the astronauts and who are examining themselves and their data to see if they were at fault somehow in not preventing the loss of the spacecraft. I wish I could volunteer and drive up to Nacogdoches to help in any way. The scientist in me wants to do anything to help. I was horrified at first because of the debris rain, because my husband and two daughters were due to travel right through that area this morning. I called and my youngest had gotten ill in the middle of the night and I am actually relieved because they didn't go. I'm just gutted. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 15:27:51 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Current events > nation. The best thing that could happen from this would be for NASA and the > feds to evaluate what happened and to pour as much money back into the space > program as possible so that we can achieve fusion rockets and the ability to > visit other planets in our solar system. I personally would rather see > deficits due to space exploration than some useless war in Iraq. And having just lost seven people, most of them highly trained Air Force pilots, to a noble cause of scientific experimentation and international cooperation, I *really* don't want to spend one dime or one life on a completely needless war. I've studied World War II and am fully aware of what can happen when a dangerous dictator acquires technology and begins to expand into his neighbours' lands. I still do not feel war is conscionable at this time and urge those of you around the world to ask your leaders to NOT give in to pressure from the President to acquiesce to his war. The people here are very divided over it and there is great resistance to it on a popular level. Musicians and other artists have long felt the need to call attention to political situations and have had great success in helping the world focus on what the right thing to do might be in countries everywhere. Where are our musical leaders today? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #27 *******************************