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Subject: Re: Challenger
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:17:12 -0700
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On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 13:28:58 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>> https://www.amazon.com/Challenger-Story-Heroism-Disaster-Space/dp/198217661X
>> 
>> This is a very well researched and written book, and a sad, ghastly
>> story.
>> 
>> It reminds me that humans have no purpose in space but to die.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>Of course most folks here don’t really think that we have any purpose here
>either. 
>
>Cheers 
>
>Phil Hobbs 

Whatever our purpose, killing astronauts probably doesn't help.

Spending hundreds of billions on spam-in-a-can is a waste of resources
that could truly help.

The book is fascinating. The fatheads that decided to launch cared
about power, money, and politics. The investigations after the
disaster, the same. A few very brave engineers runined their careers
to literally shout the truth. And Richard Feynman, who knew he was
dying of cancer.