BF2S Forums 1-27-1986

Oh my gosh, that's horrible Galt.

Anyways, sad day. R.I.P.

Rough time frame for NASA. Apollo 1 lost on 01-27-67, the crew of Challenger lost on 01-28-86, and the crew of Columbia lost on 02-01-03.

Phrozenbot wrote:

Oh my gosh, that's horrible Galt.

Anyways, sad day. R.I.P.

Horrible? I was five years old. Was I supposed to cry too?

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

are you trying to incite a conspiracy theory or something

No, I think he's proving that launching shuttles in January is a bad idea

JohnG@lt wrote:

Phrozenbot wrote:

Oh my gosh, that's horrible Galt.

Anyways, sad day. R.I.P.

Horrible? I was five years old. Was I supposed to cry too?

No not you. Your teacher bursting in tears.

Phrozenbot wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

Phrozenbot wrote:

Oh my gosh, that's horrible Galt.

Anyways, sad day. R.I.P.

Horrible? I was five years old. Was I supposed to cry too?

No not you. Your teacher bursting in tears.

Well, she was old and a bit strange. We were her last class before she retired. She kept a pair of chickens in the classroom fireplace behind one of those child staircase fence thingies. She would send one of us home with an egg whenever one was laid. Mine broke in my metal lunchbox on the way home and I cried



Bonus points if you can pick me out!

Kmarion wrote:

first row, far right, red sox.

Nah, she was the first girl I kissed though

lol well, metal lunchboxes aren't exactly the nicest thing to the shell of an egg.

So are you the one in the middle row, second to right?

edit: I didn't see your post jihad, I've got like... a million tabs going on right now heh

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13/f/taiwan wrote:

middle row, 2nd to the right, mouth open?

Wait, you only get a partial cookie. I think you meant the guy in the yellow shirt. That's Craig. I'm the guy in the fugly blue and black sweatershirt thing.

Last edited by JohnG@lt (2010-01-28 15:03:06)

They didnt shutt off our tv.. they brought us inside.

3rd grade watching liftoff.  The teacher just stood up, slowly walked to the front of the class and turned off the television.  The class didn't know what to do.  She didn't know what to say.

King_County_Downy wrote:

I was in 4th grade. We had all sorts of jokes about NASA. Need another seven astronauts, etc. Ah the good old days

Don't forget the classic "what color were Christa McAuliffe's eyes? Blue -- this way and that way."

For the record, I was almost 8 and only have vague recollections of the event.

Also for the record, Challenger did not explode.  It disintegrated.  The faulty o-ring failed in a spot that let the escaping hot gases impinge on the external tank.  Eventually, the gases breached the outer hull of the tank, then breached the lower of the two internal tanks which held the liquid hydrogen.  The hydrogen didn't explode, but the tank ruptured along its bottom, sending it up into the liquid oxygen tank.  At this point, the external tank's structure was breached and, along with the defective SRB that had by now destroyed the one of the struts connecting it to the external tank, its aerodynamic properties were drastically altered which sent the rest of the shuttle stack into a position with respect to the relative wind (the direction of airflow with respect to the moving body) that it was never designed to handle.  Challenger and its external tank were torn apart by aerodynamic stresses in short order.  The more robust SRBs survived the battering, but were destroyed by the range officer after the accident due to the fact that they were now essentially uncontrollable missiles.

Just one of my pet peeves that I am driven to correct on every occassion it comes up.

CC-Marley wrote:

Looked like an explosion to me.

If it had exploded, there would have been no question as to how long the crew survived, nor would there be any pieces larger than a cell phone to recover.  There's a reason no one is allowed within three miles of the pad at launch time.  The reason it "looks" like an explosion is because the hydrogen and oxygen were being released suddenly and this created a puffy cloud.

No explosion.