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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.columbia
Subject: Re: A vote against net.challenger - reasons included
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Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 07:06:20 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 07:06:20 1986
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Summary: I agree with Curtis

I agree with Curtis and I am glad he had the guts to stand up
and say what he did.

I don't think anyone questions the scope of tragedy in the
lost of the Challenger, and, yes, it is fitting to show
our respect and commemorate its crew and engineers who
created it, but, in addition to Curtis' objections,
renaming net.columbia is a token thing.  The name net.columbia
was intended as a respectful commemoration of the (non-tragic)
Columbia, the first shuttle -- the `pioneer' shuttle!  Let
us not dispose of *that* memory!

To commemorate Challenger, let us all do something unquestionably
beneficial and constructive: give your time, money, effort --
whatever -- to support NASA, the space program, and the
survivors of the tragedy.

If you don't remember Challenger five years from now its your fault
not Usenet's.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,seismo,hplabs}!amdahl!gam

"Life's a bitch and then you die."