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Feb. 1st, 2003 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaWatching the reaction ripple across my friends page, seeing the fresh shock and horror a dozen times or more.
Ben called me, woke me up. He'd seen the launch on January 16th.
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wcg to see if he was okay. He told me that Columbia is known in space science circles as the penguin, "the big black-and-white bird that can't fly," because of all of its maintenance problems. We discussed the ridiculousness of the terrorism speculation.
curiousangel turned on the TV, and together we watched the shuttle break up. Once is enough. I don't want to watch it explode again and again, like the Challenger, like the planes hitting the World Trade Center. We'll watch the NASA press conference at 11:30, and then the TV is going off.
To seek, to strive, to find, and not to yield. They knew this could happen, and they went up anyway. God rest their souls.
Ben called me, woke me up. He'd seen the launch on January 16th.
I called
wcg to see if he was okay. He told me that Columbia is known in space science circles as the penguin, "the big black-and-white bird that can't fly," because of all of its maintenance problems. We discussed the ridiculousness of the terrorism speculation.curiousangel turned on the TV, and together we watched the shuttle break up. Once is enough. I don't want to watch it explode again and again, like the Challenger, like the planes hitting the World Trade Center. We'll watch the NASA press conference at 11:30, and then the TV is going off.To seek, to strive, to find, and not to yield. They knew this could happen, and they went up anyway. God rest their souls.
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Date: 2003-02-01 08:44 am (UTC)I know someone with a 50-year-old retarded brother. Though he isn't profoundly disabled, he can't quite live in a group home, so he lives in a home for retarded people where he's far and above the most cognitively advanced person there. The staff basically leave the TV on a neutral channel in the common rooms during waking hours, figuring the folks there watch whatever's on. When my friend called her brother for her daily good morning on Sept. 11, 2001, he was panicking. Because only Nickelodeon, pretty much, wasn't playing the WTC videos over and over, the staff just left the TV on wherever it was, as they were also watching the videos. My friend's brother saw, he thought, hundreds of planes crashing into hundreds of skyscrapers, and was falling apart.
It makes me wonder what went on in children's heads after that event.
My friend had to yell at supervisors to get someone to put the TV on Nickelodeon in the common rooms.