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Subject: Re: Challenger
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 16:31:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:17:12 -0700, john larkin wrote:

> 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.

What did the venerable Feynman have to do with this?