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56 years ago today my parents were married. 25 years ago today the Challenger blew up. Please pause at 11:45am and remember the brave astronauts who died that day.

I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

It's easy to be disrespectful huh, Mike Nobody?

RGMixProject wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

It's easy to be disrespectful huh, Mike Nobody?

We just watched seven people explode live on TV. It has that effect on people, especially kids.

BTW, does anyone remember the Budd Dwyer suicide? F*ck! THAT's "reality TV." Try to get THAT image out of your head when you're still a kid!

Baby boomers remember where they were when they heard Kennedy got shot. We saw it LIVE on TV!

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

I'll paypal you $5 right now to leave this board and never come back. This is not a joke.

I remember Sept. 11... I was in fourth grade. My teacher turned on the news before anyone was talking about terrorists, when it was just an "accident"... We saw the second plane crash. I don't remember being scared, shocked, upset... just confused. The rest came later.

I remember Virginia Tech... watching the cell phone footage of one student tearing apart the campus single-handedly.

Two years ago, a student brought a gun to my school... I remember hearing the announcement "We are now in lockdown." I'd heard it before, in drills, but there was something different in the principal's voice... I heard shots, and had to sit in the corner, helpless, wondering if I'd just lost a friend.

Ya know what gets me through all these crisises? Black Humor. It's like home-brewed counseling. I'll crack a joke about anything, anytime, anywhere. I remember sitting in a hospital room with my mother, aunts, and dead grandmother, fifteen minutes after she'd passed, laughing it up because humor is all we had left. No sense crying anymore, what'd done is done, and the humor helps us move on.

Neanderpaul, I'll take that five bucks if you want me to move on for this, too. But you're chastising Mike for a very human reaction to stress and grief.

neanderpaul wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

I'll paypal you $5 right now to leave this board and never come back. This is not a joke.

F*ck off Neanderpoop. This is not a joke.

Mike Nobody wrote:

neanderpaul wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

I'll paypal you $5 right now to leave this board and never come back. This is not a joke.

F*ck off Neanderpoop. This is not a joke.

This is not a joke, Mr Nobody you are a joke and so is your counterpart dizzizz and skippy. Stop disrespecting everyones post with your bullshit pictures and rude stupid comments. Really, if you leave not one person will miss you except to remember what afuckterd your post mean and you were nothing but a TROLL!

RGMixProject wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

neanderpaul wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

I'll paypal you $5 right now to leave this board and never come back. This is not a joke.

F*ck off Neanderpoop. This is not a joke.

This is not a joke, Mr Nobody you are a joke and so is your counterpart dizzizz and skippy. Stop disrespecting everyones post with your bullshit pictures and rude stupid comments. Really, if you leave not one person will miss you except to remember what afuckterd your post mean and you were nothing but a TROLL!

Given the fact that you are a narrow-minded, hate-filled, bigoted, twisted, disgusting lump of humanity that houses nothing but pure rage for any opinions but your own, I'd rather have you hate me than love me. It lets me know I'm doing something right.

dizzizz wrote:

RGMixProject wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

neanderpaul wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

I'll paypal you $5 right now to leave this board and never come back. This is not a joke.

F*ck off Neanderpoop. This is not a joke.

This is not a joke, Mr Nobody you are a joke and so is your counterpart dizzizz and skippy. Stop disrespecting everyones post with your bullshit pictures and rude stupid comments. Really, if you leave not one person will miss you except to remember what afuckterd your post mean and you were nothing but a TROLL!

Given the fact that you are a narrow-minded, hate-filled, bigoted, twisted, disgusting lump of humanity that houses nothing but pure rage for any opinions but your own, I'd rather have you hate me than love me. It lets me know I'm doing something right.

Thats funny, because just about everything you know is wrong.

RGMixProject wrote:

dizzizz wrote:

RGMixProject wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

neanderpaul wrote:

Mike Nobody wrote:

BassBastard wrote:I was in Mrs. Smith's 4th grade science class, watching the launch live. The school let us all go home early. We were encouraged to draw pictures and write stories about it. It was surreal.

We were telling black humor jokes about it for months afterward in school.

I'll paypal you $5 right now to leave this board and never come back. This is not a joke.

F*ck off Neanderpoop. This is not a joke.

This is not a joke, Mr Nobody you are a joke and so is your counterpart dizzizz and skippy. Stop disrespecting everyones post with your bullshit pictures and rude stupid comments. Really, if you leave not one person will miss you except to remember what afuckterd your post mean and you were nothing but a TROLL!

Given the fact that you are a narrow-minded, hate-filled, bigoted, twisted, disgusting lump of humanity that houses nothing but pure rage for any opinions but your own, I'd rather have you hate me than love me. It lets me know I'm doing something right.

Thats funny, because just about everything you know is wrong.

I see. Perhaps then, oh mighty RG, you shall tell me the error of my ways, and set me on the path of truth and righteousness, so I may one day be worthy to worship at your feet?

I was onboard the USS Forrestal we were stationed at Mayport Florida at the time. About twenty minutes after the explosion anywhere below the water line, you could barely here anyone talk because of all the pinging from sonar systems coming online, as all the smaller ships in the harbor prepared for deployment.

It was so unexpected, NASA did a great job of making space travel seem mundane. After all, that was the whole point of the shuttle to begin with, to provide a vehicle that could routinely launch into space. The irony that failure to launch the Challenger even with warnings about the “o” ring failure were ignored. Since it would escalate the costs for that launch that had been postponed so many times before and alter the public perception of the routine nature of it’s mission. It was the debut of the teacher in space program and no little frozen o ring was going to ruin their PR masterpiece. NASA management put the burden on Rockwell Int. and Morton Thiokol to prove that the launch would be hazardous, rather then to err on the side of safety.

I never realized but in the wiki article it mentions that a temporary seal was made by the hot gasses and had the shuttle not encountered the worst wind shear in the history of the shuttle program, that temporary seal may have actually held. A morbid thought, a few of the astronauts survived the entire plunge, only to die on impact with the ocean surface. That’s a really long time to think about dying 2:45 during a fall from 65,000 feet, personally I’d rather be shot in the head.

“During powered flight of the space shuttle, crew escape was not possible. While launch escape systems were considered several times during shuttle development, NASA's conclusion was that the shuttle's expected high reliability would preclude the need for one. Modified SR-71 Blackbird ejection seats and full pressure suits were used on the first four shuttle orbital missions, which were considered test flights, but they were removed for the "operational" missions that followed. (The CAIB later declared, after the 2003 Columbia re-entry disaster, that the space shuttle system should never have been declared operational because it is experimental by nature due to the limited number of flights as compared to certified commercial aircraft.) Providing a launch escape system for larger crews was considered undesirable due to "limited utility, technical complexity and excessive cost in dollars, weight or schedule delays."[16]”

The next generation of the shuttle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37 Our future of space exploration is now mostly in military and private corporation hands. I never knew that the Russian space station Salyut 3 was fitted with a 23mm cannon.

It was a shame those brave souls died that day.
But it is a simple fact that sick humor can help people cope in a crisis.

Don't believe me ?

Try being an RN for 15 years.