Challenger Explosion: 25 years ago today

also it's highly irresponsible to post such a high-res image of the shuttle cockpit - terrorists might hijack it and destroy the moon!!

i'm serving jimbo wales with a subpoena as we speak.

I was born the day before the Challenger explosion. My dad remembers visiting my mom in the maternity ward, because her and all of the other new mothers were watching news coverage of the explosion and crying hysterically.

reminds me of privateer.

  On 1/29/2011 at 4:46 AM, kaini said:

  On 1/29/2011 at 4:39 AM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

  On 1/29/2011 at 3:45 AM, halisray said:

  On 1/29/2011 at 2:28 AM, nene multiple assgasms said:

at least it looked cool when it blew up.

Have shame you fucktard.

poo brain

you are as dumb as a bag of spanners and also a prick.

well done.

there are worse ways to die. besides, everyone knows traveling to space is dangerous business. you shouldn't go if you're not okay with being blown up or freezing to death in space.

I don't remember shit. I would have been a year and a half old.

  On 1/29/2011 at 2:22 AM, Hoodie said:

Inter-planetary fuck-jar.

  On 1/29/2011 at 5:00 AM, jules said:

  On 1/29/2011 at 2:29 AM, lumpenprol said:

I remember that day very vividly, I was in science class, Jr. High, and my teacher Mr. Rinaldi wheeled a TV into the classroom with the breaking news...

 

me too but my teacher was mrs. kreski

Same here. I was in 1st grade... Mrs. Carroll's class.

  On 1/30/2011 at 2:11 AM, kaini said:

it's interesting how old the computers in the shuttles are. they're all based off radiation-hardened 80386 and 80486 processors. of course radiation-hardening and redundancy systems mean that even as old as they are, producing them is serious $$$.

 

 

and yet we got to the moon and back using something with a lot less power than a zx spectrum 48k. where did we go fucking wrong?

i was actually reading a while back that they were to the point that they had to source shuttle CPU parts from ebay because no one made them anymore.

That drawing is shit. I could make something better than that.

  On 1/31/2011 at 1:34 AM, wake said:

That drawing is shit. I could make something better than that.

I am better than your kids.

  On 1/31/2011 at 2:51 AM, chaosmachine said:

  On 1/31/2011 at 1:34 AM, wake said:

That drawing is shit. I could make something better than that.

 

I am better than your kids.

Great stuff.