I was in my car heading East on Texas State Highway 80 near Interstate Highway 635 south of Dallas in Mesquite, Texas when I heard a sharp series of "cracks" followed by dozens of overlapping "rolling thunder" sounds. I've heard supersonic jets flying before and althou... [more]
I wasn't surprised.
I had recently read Richard Feynman's book "What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of A Curious Character." As Told to Ralph Leighton. Illus. 255 pps. N.Y.: W.W. Norton, (1988)
Among other tales, Feynman relates his experi... [more]
On that day, I had scheduled some wiring work at the local TV studio where I volunteer. I met there with my carpenter friend, running network cables when I noted one of the TV's in the office was on and tuned to Fox News. I saw the text on the screen "SHUTTLE TELEMETR... [more]
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Extremely saddened at the terrible loss of life, brought about by what appeared, immediately, to be total lack of foresight and appropriate planning to offset potential disasterous failure of technologies. [more]
I heard the news about the Columbia on NPR. I live in Austin, and had to fight back the urge to drive to East Texas to "do something". I worked in the yard the rest of the day, fequently looking up at the sky. [more]
At first I was amazed and shocked. I want to go to space on the space shuttle so it was scary, that that might happen to me if I go. [more]
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