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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2026-01-29 05:10 pm

[ SECRET POST #6964 ]


⌈ Secret Post #6964 ⌋

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Re: The Challenger disaster - 40 years ago yesterday

(Anonymous) 2026-01-30 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Damn, I feel old. I was in 4th grade watching at school. I remember the TV got shut off quickly and we pivoted to quiet individual work while the teachers huddled in the halls talking in nervous whispers.

Which makes me realize in hindsight how much of a big deal a rocket launch was in 1986. A national event you stopped class for because we were still in a coldish war, and it was a display of national engineering.

Now it's a display of one trillionaire with a tiny penis having a lawn party, and our the goal of our engineering prowess is to make human labor irrelevant.

Re: The Challenger disaster - 40 years ago yesterday

(Anonymous) 2026-01-30 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I was also in fourth grade and our teachers had the same response. I know some schools had counselors talk to the students at an assembly if not individually, but I don’t remember my school doing that. The principal came and talked to us around lunchtime and that was it.

It really is sad how engineering has changed in our country. There are still a lot of advances in medical engineering but those have always been overlooked.

Re: The Challenger disaster - 40 years ago yesterday

(Anonymous) 2026-01-30 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh for sure on the medical engineering. I still feel proud by how quickly we had a COVID vaccine. And the fact that HIV isn't an automatic death sentence. Having lived through that as well.