Challenger Disaster
The 20th Anniversary of the Challenger disaster
I’ve always had a morbid fascination with the Challenger disaster. I think it’s the footage - its unbelievably disturbing and it goes to show how fragile our lives really are.
In recent years I’ve lost most interest in space exploration. Progress in the area seems to be very slow and I think it’s just a little messed up that people are focusing their attention on space when there are a hell of a lot of problems to be contended with down here.
Hicks was right when he talked about a global community making plans together for space. Until the world comes together as one and concentrates their collective efforts on exploration efforts I can’t really see that much progress being made.
I do hope we get out of the Solar System within my lifetime. It’s looking doubtful though. As a kid I already thought we’d be on Jupiter. Damn it!
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January 30th, 2006 at 1:14 am
The progress will be slow. Sometimes we have the belief that we will see marvelous things developing in a very small time, perhaps used to the rapid pace of technological advance of the post Industrial era. However, we have to remember that human beongs lived for hundreds of thousands of years without major change in what we call the Stone Age.