[OT] Interesting time in the ol' newsreader.

Going to be interesting over the next few days/months... My
newsreader is set to retain messages for one year. s.s.shuttle
currenly had 30k messages, the vast majority of them in Feb-May of
last year...

D.
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:44:05 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

Going to be interesting over the next few days/months... My
newsreader is set to retain messages for one year. s.s.shuttle
currenly had 30k messages, the vast majority of them in Feb-May of
last year...

....And since I'm going to be passing out shortly as I've had a long
day, it still blows my mind that a year has passed already since
Columbia. 365 days ago I was in the third day in a row of doing my
best to destroy my liver and the section of my brain that retained
some semblance of affection for the ex-GF, all the while closing down
the bar in question. At 4am I left with the declaration of "Hey,
there's a shuttle landing in four hours! Why the **** should I go to
bed?"

Little did I know I wouldn't be sleeping at all for the next five
days...

Sleep now, memorials tomorrow. And if the Super Bowl doesn't open with
a moment of silence for Columbia, then I hope the game ends in a
zero-zero tie and Michael Jackson turns out to be the "mystery guest"
at halftime...

OM

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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message . ..
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:44:05 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

Going to be interesting over the next few days/months... My
newsreader is set to retain messages for one year. s.s.shuttle
currenly had 30k messages, the vast majority of them in Feb-May of
last year...

...And since I'm going to be passing out shortly as I've had a long
day, it still blows my mind that a year has passed already since
Columbia. 365 days ago I was in the third day in a row of doing my
best to destroy my liver and the section of my brain that retained
some semblance of affection for the ex-GF, all the while closing down
the bar in question. At 4am I left with the declaration of "Hey,
there's a shuttle landing in four hours! Why the **** should I go to
bed?"

Little did I know I wouldn't be sleeping at all for the next five
days...

Sleep now, memorials tomorrow. And if the Super Bowl doesn't open with
a moment of silence for Columbia, then I hope the game ends in a
zero-zero tie and Michael Jackson turns out to be the "mystery guest"
at halftime...

OM

Talk about missing something... For me, it was the first time
eversince I have the Internet (circa '95) that I -forgot- a landing.
It might have been for the best that I missed the landing, 'cause
realising LIVE that Columbia missed it's own return too might have
been the worst 16 minutes of my passion for space.

Today I'll rewatch a DVD marathon of The Good Stuff, From the Earth to
the Moon, and Apollo 13, just to remember that I hope that the
sacrifice those 7 brave souls have made was to open our eyes to the
reality that if we are to risk space endeavours, let's stop going
around in circles and do something.

In article ,
(Remy Villeneuve) wrote:

OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote in message . ..
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:44:05 GMT, (Derek
Lyons) wrote:

Going to be interesting over the next few days/months... My
newsreader is set to retain messages for one year. s.s.shuttle
currenly had 30k messages, the vast majority of them in Feb-May of
last year...

...And since I'm going to be passing out shortly as I've had a long
day, it still blows my mind that a year has passed already since
Columbia. 365 days ago I was in the third day in a row of doing my
best to destroy my liver and the section of my brain that retained
some semblance of affection for the ex-GF, all the while closing down
the bar in question. At 4am I left with the declaration of "Hey,
there's a shuttle landing in four hours! Why the **** should I go to
bed?"

Little did I know I wouldn't be sleeping at all for the next five
days...

Sleep now, memorials tomorrow. And if the Super Bowl doesn't open with
a moment of silence for Columbia, then I hope the game ends in a
zero-zero tie and Michael Jackson turns out to be the "mystery guest"
at halftime...

OM

Talk about missing something... For me, it was the first time
eversince I have the Internet (circa '95) that I -forgot- a landing.
It might have been for the best that I missed the landing, 'cause
realising LIVE that Columbia missed it's own return too might have
been the worst 16 minutes of my passion for space...

I'm more than a bit embarassed at this point; ever since I watched the
entire Gemini III mission as a third-grader, I hadn't missed a single
launch or landing until the Shuttle program reached the point where the
media weren't even covering them to any serious extent. Unfortunately,
this was before the 'Net took off, so it was almost impossible to follow
launches and landings without slogging through hours and hours of
worthless media dross (I got the news about Challenger when it happened
from people in other offices watching the launch, but had to watch the
replay on the evening news). I started watching again with the
post-Challenger RTF, and every time I was able to get hold of the cable
remote at our house to dial up NASA Select.

STS107 was, ironically, the first re-entry/landing in a while that I
hadn't been following closely -- for some reason I can't recall now --
until my wife hollered up to inform me that "they've lost contact with the
Shuttle!" I didn't think much of this at first as my wife isn't real
space-tech savvy, and flipped the TV on -- thinking she'd just seen them
go into the familiar re-entry comm blackout -- just in time to see the
view of MC, and hear a controller talking about lost data from the left
side, and the tire pressure drop, followed some minutes later by the
now-familiar "daytime shooting star" footage, weirdly accompanied by some
media and NASA PAO flacks doing a rhetorical tap dance about whether it's
really 107 while, on my TV, I could see that jeezus h. god, the goddamn'
thing's broken up and flaming at Mach 25, and those poor ****ers are
_gone_...followed by President Chimp's Original "Space Speech".

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along with their overcoats;
if Adolf Hitler flew in today,
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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

Little did I know I wouldn't be sleeping at all for the next five
days...

A sure sign you never made a deployment.

Rule #1 for survival in the USN: When the chance comes to grab a few
z's, take it.

D.
--
The STS-107 Columbia Loss FAQ can be found
at the following URLs:

Text-Only Version:
http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq.html

Enhanced HTML Version:
http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html

Corrections, comments, and additions should be
e-mailed to , as well as posted to
sci.space.history and sci.space.shuttle for
discussion.

"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
...
OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org
wrote:

Little did I know I wouldn't be sleeping at all for the next five
days...

A sure sign you never made a deployment.

Rule #1 for survival in the USN: When the chance comes to grab a few
z's, take it.

When I had my first kid everyone was like, "he keeping you up at night?"

"No, I get more sleep with him than I do from the servers waking me up at
night."

Ah, the days of being in a dotcomm.

In article ,
(Mike Flugennock) wrote:

followed by President Chimp's Original "Space Speech".

Too bad a nice posting had to be ruined by this last comment. What
exactly is it about the hate for the guy that causes people to behave
like jerks?

"Raoul Ortega" wrote in message
...
In article ,
(Mike Flugennock) wrote:

followed by President Chimp's Original "Space Speech".

Too bad a nice posting had to be ruined by this last comment. What
exactly is it about the hate for the guy that causes people to behave
like jerks?

There's no scandal.

He hasn't lied under oath, violated the Rules of the Bar, or sexually abused
interns.

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:27:34 -0800, Raoul Ortega
wrote:

In article ,
(Mike Flugennock) wrote:

followed by President Chimp's Original "Space Speech".

Too bad a nice posting had to be ruined by this last comment. What
exactly is it about the hate for the guy that causes people to behave
like jerks?

....The only problem is which President is it he's talking about?
OM

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