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From: aiz@JPL-VLSI.ARPA
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Subject: Challenger
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 12:14:34 EST
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I can't minimize the sense of loss with respect to the Challenger disaster.
It was a tragedy for the people involved, the families, the school children,
and the National Space Program.

But with respect to the comments on the press, it is interesting to note that
most programming was inturrupted for most of the day on the loss of 7 people.
Yet when a jumbo jet crashes with the loss of 300, we get a few bulletins and
first mention on the 6 o'clock news.   It reminds of what Mr. Spock said in
one of the Star Trek episodes (to paraphrase): "You humans are strange.  You
can mourn the loss of a single person, but you cannot feel the death of
millions."

Art Zygielbaum