the air crash as life
Sep. 18th, 2008 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribal"Disasters don't just happen. They're a chain of critical events."
- Seconds From Disaster motto
"When you do an analysis of an accident, you've got to look at the human errors in judgment that were made and try to rectify those. That is my hope and dream for human spaceflight."
- Jon Clark, husband of Laurel Clark
I've decided that catastrophes and terrorist attacks and wars and nuclear meltdowns and disease outbreaks are all just big long plane crashes.
I just realized that I don't remember anything - anything - about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. I was watching its Seconds From Disaster episode and assuming it happened in the 90s when suddenly there was a clip of President Bush addressing the nation. I looked it up, thinking it happened when I was in middle school and out of it, but it was 2003. 2003! I was a sophomore in high school and I remember nothing! How can that be? I remember researching this just last semester and reading Laurel Clark's letter and somehow I didn't understand that this had happened very recently and I should have had memory of this.
I asked my roommate if she remembered it. She said, "Didn't that happen in nineteen ninety something?" I said it was 2003 and she couldn't believe it either. I don't know if this is a matter of inadequate media attention or us just being too obsessed with our own lives and unable to register important global events.
From wikipedia:
In a hoax inspired by the destruction of Columbia, some images that were purported to be satellite photographs of the shuttle's explosion turned out to be screen captures from the opening scene of the 1998 science fiction film Armageddon, where the shuttle Atlantis is destroyed by asteroid fragments. In reality, Columbia disintegrated rather than exploded. In response to the disaster, FX pulled Armageddon from that night's schedule. It was replaced with Aliens instead.
Aliens? Really? Something is wrong with us.
Since I just recently saw Encounters at the End of the World, I find it interesting that there's a memorial for Columbia at "the bottom of the world", in McMurdo Station in Antarctica. God. We have a very strange sentience, a very strange homemade divinity.
- Seconds From Disaster motto
"When you do an analysis of an accident, you've got to look at the human errors in judgment that were made and try to rectify those. That is my hope and dream for human spaceflight."
- Jon Clark, husband of Laurel Clark
I've decided that catastrophes and terrorist attacks and wars and nuclear meltdowns and disease outbreaks are all just big long plane crashes.
I just realized that I don't remember anything - anything - about the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. I was watching its Seconds From Disaster episode and assuming it happened in the 90s when suddenly there was a clip of President Bush addressing the nation. I looked it up, thinking it happened when I was in middle school and out of it, but it was 2003. 2003! I was a sophomore in high school and I remember nothing! How can that be? I remember researching this just last semester and reading Laurel Clark's letter and somehow I didn't understand that this had happened very recently and I should have had memory of this.
I asked my roommate if she remembered it. She said, "Didn't that happen in nineteen ninety something?" I said it was 2003 and she couldn't believe it either. I don't know if this is a matter of inadequate media attention or us just being too obsessed with our own lives and unable to register important global events.
From wikipedia:
In a hoax inspired by the destruction of Columbia, some images that were purported to be satellite photographs of the shuttle's explosion turned out to be screen captures from the opening scene of the 1998 science fiction film Armageddon, where the shuttle Atlantis is destroyed by asteroid fragments. In reality, Columbia disintegrated rather than exploded. In response to the disaster, FX pulled Armageddon from that night's schedule. It was replaced with Aliens instead.
Aliens? Really? Something is wrong with us.
Since I just recently saw Encounters at the End of the World, I find it interesting that there's a memorial for Columbia at "the bottom of the world", in McMurdo Station in Antarctica. God. We have a very strange sentience, a very strange homemade divinity.
