Where were you when the 1st shuttle blewup?

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Jeffrey Send message Joined: 21 Nov 03 Posts: 4793 Credit: 26,029 RAC: 0	Message 414090 - Posted: 3 Sep 2006, 17:34:55 UTC - in response to Message 413909. Last modified: 3 Sep 2006, 17:41:43 UTC
	The thing is..later on in life I realized that in the face of something that serious, some people's only defense from the enormity of the event, is humor. No matter how ill timed it may be. When I was in high school, me and a girlfriend of mine worked at a fast food joint... One night, me, her, and the manager were the only three working when we got robbed at gun point... With a gun pointed at her head, all she could do was laugh laugh laugh throughout the whole episode... It was just her way of dealing with it... ;) ____________ It may not be 1984 but George Orwell sure did see the future . . .
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 5623 Credit: 3,511,214 RAC: 2,987	Message 414121 - Posted: 3 Sep 2006, 18:52:53 UTC
	I was on DS-9 having a Romulan Ale and chatting with Odo and Sisko when it happened.... (-;< Seriously, I was at work and didn't know about it until I turned the news on when I got home.... )-:< ____________ CMDR Siran d'Vel'nahr XO USS Vre'kasht NCC-33187 Siran's website: [ ONLINE! ]
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RandyC Send message Joined: 20 Oct 99 Posts: 714 Credit: 1,704,345 RAC: 0	Message 414328 - Posted: 4 Sep 2006, 0:50:28 UTC
	I was at work when someone brought in the news. Someone else set up a TV and several of us were able to watch the reruns and reruns and reruns of those 73 seconds. I remember watching one very large chunk of debris the TV camera followed all the way down to impact with the sea and figuring that was probably the crew capsule. The rest of the day is a blank for me.
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John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 439,209 RAC: 396	Message 414347 - Posted: 4 Sep 2006, 1:41:21 UTC
	I was in Graduate School. I arrived at the student center just at the time of the launch. ____________ BOINC WIKI
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MJKelleher Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 1 Jul 99 Posts: 2048 Credit: 674,709 RAC: 369	Message 414492 - Posted: 4 Sep 2006, 5:43:53 UTC
	At work, windowless inside office, had my radio on the local National Public Radio station. I'm not sure now whether they broke in on the programming, or picked it up in their normal top of the hour news, but they stayed with the story for quite a while that day, and so did I. MJ ____________
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The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 3901 Credit: 1,067,984 RAC: 755	Message 416257 - Posted: 6 Sep 2006, 23:38:41 UTC
	I wasn't even thought of. :) ____________ Chemists have all the solutions! Skype me: simonator### (one zero one)
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Gecko Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Nov 99 Posts: 440 Credit: 5,231,525 RAC: 0	Message 416448 - Posted: 7 Sep 2006, 4:05:15 UTC Last modified: 7 Sep 2006, 4:05:37 UTC
	Mr. Mayo's 11th grade Chemistry class taking a test and watching the launch "live" on TV. I was in complete disbelief at what I saw at first.....then felt my stomach sink & tighten up. Brought tears to my eyes, as it did most around me. It was "obviously a major malfunction........" Worst thing I ever saw in my life until that moment. Remember watching Columbia's maiden lift-off in school as well. Had the same reaction when she broke-up. ____________
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Dune_Finkleberry Send message Joined: 25 Feb 06 Posts: 6454 Credit: 198,656 RAC: 0	Message 416511 - Posted: 7 Sep 2006, 8:38:20 UTC Last modified: 7 Sep 2006, 8:43:09 UTC
	Me? I was working at the newspaper, (of course) here in Akron. Didn't hear about it until I got home that evening. ____________ Account frozen...
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